Hawktail Concert: Back Porch Festival
Peghead Nation fiddle instructor and her progressive acoustic band perform a great live set.
Brittany Haas hosts the Fiddle Styles Workshop course on Peghead Nation, in which she is joined by some of the best fiddlers in roots music for in-depth instruction and some great performances. She is a founding member of the progressive acoustic band Hawktail, with Paul Kowert on bass, Jordan Tice on guitar, and Dominic Leslie on mandolin. This video shows a full set from Hawktail, performed at the Back Porch Festival, at the Academy of Music in Northampton, Massachusetts on February 29, 2020, shortly before live shows of all types were shut down. Great performance from virtuoso players and composers.
Check out Hawktail’s latest ablum Formations, which you can buy or stream now!
To learn fiddle with Brittany, enroll in her Fiddle Styles Workshop course on Peghead Nation.
Video presented by Less Than Face Productions.
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