Miranda Mulholland Explained

Miranda Mulholland
Birth Date:September 14
Birth Place:Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Fiddle player, singer
Instrument:Fiddle
Label:Roaring Girl

Miranda Mulholland is a Canadian fiddle player and singer.

Biography

Mulholland is a member of Great Lake Swimmers,[1] Belle Starr,[2] and The Rattlesnake Choir as well as the founder and lead singer for the Roaring Girl Cabaret. She makes select appearances in the violin show Bowfire,[3] and has played fiddle with Jim Cuddy, John Borra and Justin Rutledge, among others. Not limited to band performances, Mulholland has appeared in various theatre productions including Parfumerie and the world premiere of Spoon River with Soulpepper Theatre[4] in Toronto.

In addition to varied studio work, she has toured extensively in Europe and North America with the Celtic rock bands The Mahones, The Peelers, The Paperboys, The Glengarry Bhoys and the alt-country band Luther Wright and the Wrongs. She was a member of the Canadian cast of Barrage and was the vocal and fiddle soloist for the Irish dance show Spirit of Ireland and Celtic Blaze.

Mulholland can be heard on records by Justin Rutledge, Sarah Slean, NQ Arbuckle and Kevin Quain, and her debut album for The Roaring Girl Cabaret is titled In Last Night's Party Clothes. She was born in Guelph, Ontario and was a violin student of the Guelph Suzuki School,[5] and studied opera performance at the University of Western Ontario and McGill University.

On May 13, 2014, Mulholland released her debut solo album Whipping Boy produced by multi-instrumentalist Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) on her own boutique label Roaring Girl Records.[6] [7] Roaring Girl Records is distributed by Fontana North.[8] In addition, Mulholland founded Sawdust City Music Festival in Gravenhurst, Ontario[9] and is on the Board of Governors of Massey Hall & Roy Thompson Hall.[10]

In 2017 Mulholland formed a duo, Harrow Fair, with guitarist Andrew Penner.[11]

Discography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Great Lake Swimmers . Great Lake Swimmers .
  2. Web site: Belle Starr . 2020-04-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190522091628/http://bellestarr.ca/ . 2019-05-22 . dead .
  3. Web site: Cast and creative team . Bowfire .
  4. Web site: Soulpepper - Miranda Mulholland . 2011-11-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111019153001/http://www.soulpepper.ca/the_company/the_artists/actors/miranda_mulholland.aspx . 2011-10-19 . dead .
  5. Web site: Alumni: Where are they now? . Suzuki String School of Guelph . November 26, 2003 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120425162144/http://www.artset.net/SSSG2_fldr/sssg_alumni.html . April 25, 2012 .
  6. Web site: Roaring Girl Records . Roaring Girl Records . 2014-01-20 .
  7. Web site: Contact . Roaring Girl Records .
  8. Web site: Miranda Mulholland Releases Debut Solo LP 'Whipping Boy' May 13th | Fontana North . 2014-05-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140517132252/http://www.fontananorth.com/?p=2235 . 2014-05-17 . dead .
  9. Web site: The History of Sawdust City — Sawdust City Music Festival . August 22, 2018. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180822214359/https://www.sawdustcitymusicfestival.com/history/ .
  10. Web site: Staff and Board . The Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall .
  11. News: What actor Shawn Doyle is reading and listening to. The Globe and Mail. March 15, 2017.

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