PORT TOWNSEND — Master Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser, accompanied by cellist Natalie Haas, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday afternoon at Joseph F. Wheeler Theater in Fort Worden State Park, 25 Eisenhower Way.
The concert is presented by Centrum, a partnership between the Washington State Arts Commission, the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission that exists to provide year-round programming at Fort Worden.
“Concertgoers can expect to be transported across a broad musical spectrum, ranging from haunting laments from the Gaelic tradition to classically-styled airs, raucous dance tunes and improvisations based on traditional themes,” said Fred Obee, Centrum marketing and communications manager.
Fraser has been featured on more than 100 television and radio shows in the United Kingdom, and on several nationally-broadcast programs in the U.S. such as “CBS Sunday Morning,” “National Public Radio Morning Edition” and “A Prairie Home Companion.”
On “The Kennedy Center Honors,” Fraser performed a solo tribute to honoree and fellow Scotsman Sean Connery during a segment that included Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Fraser has made guest appearances with groups as diverse as the Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Waterboys and The Chieftains, and as featured soloist along with Itzhak Perlman at New York’s Lincoln Center.
His film credits include solo performances on the soundtracks of several major films, including “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Titanic.”
Fraser has released several critically acclaimed albums, including “Dawn Dance,” chosen as the National Association of Independent Record Distributors best Celtic album of 1996, and most recently, “Legacy of the Scottish Fiddle, Volume One.”
On the later album, Fraser and pianist Paul Machlis pay tribute to Scotland’s master fiddle composers of the past 250 years.
Hass is a graduate of the Julliard School and has toured and recorded extensively with Fraser.
She also has toured and recorded with Mark O’Connor and his Appalachia Waltz Trio and with Natalie MacMaster.
Hass has appeared on more than 50 albums.
She teaches privately and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and lives in Montreal, Quebec, with her husband, Yann Falquet.
Falquet is a member of the Quebecois folk group, Genticorum.
Tickets are $22 and can be purchased online at http://tinyurl.com/PDN-ScottishFiddler until midnight one day before the event, and will be back on sale at the venue box office starting one hour before show time.
Tickets also can be purchased over the phone at 1-800-746-1982.
