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“Matthew provides perhaps the most striking contribution to the band’s sound with his mesmerizing percussion, which he provides with the cajon and bodhran (drums from Cuba and Ireland, respectively), hamboning, clogging, flatfooting and dancing.”

-Dave Higgs, Bluegrass Now

Tour Dates for 2016

7/28/17-8/7/17 Festival Internacional de Folclore in Port-sur-Saone, France (with Trinity Irish Dance Company).

8/11/17-8/13/17 Balance the Bay, San Francisco (with Maivish).

9/1/17-9/4/17 Northwest Passage, Portland, OR (with Maivish).

9/8/17-9/25/17 On tour in Irelan with Anam…

 

Past performance highlights include:

Aulnay All Blues Festival, Aulnay-sois-Bois, France

Tanglewood

Jacob’s Pillow: Inside Out

Anam, at the Dublin Dance Festival, 2016

Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra, Cleveland OH

The School at Jacob’s Pillow

Eileen Iver’s Beyond the Bog Road

Memory House/Desire House, in conjunction with The Kronos Quartet’s Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home, University of MD

Performatica, Puebla Mexico

Song of the Mountains for PBS

Carter Fold, VA

Paramount Theater, Charlottesville VA

The Chieftains

Kennedy Center, Washington DC

The Generation Game BBC,London

Washington DC Irish Folk Festival, VA

Smithsonian Institute 150th Anniversary Celebration, Washington, DC

Riverdance, London England

Matthew Olwell in wood sprite get-up at the Live Arts Gala, 2006