NATHAN BISHOP

BAROQUE VIOLIN, REBEC, TRADITIONAL FIDDLES

Nathan Bishop is a graduate of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a mentee of avant-garde fiddler Cleek Schrey. He was a founding member of Rutgers University’s Women And Music project and is a current sound collaborator with JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s The Equus Project and Andy Sowers of Mabou Mines. His primary musical projects are Midnight on the Water, his genre-hopping string trio, and Faoileán, his Irish folk trio, which released their first album Far Hills in 2023. Nathan is a core member of La Fiocco’s The Next Generation project and has been featured on recent series and holiday concerts. He founded and hosts a bi-weekly Irish seisiún at Flounder Brewing Co. in Hillsborough, NJ. In 2022 and 2023, Nathan received a special project grant from the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission to fund When Waves Collide, a new music and dance collaborative festival he co-founded with Jess Michal. He was recently awarded grants from the Hardanger Fiddle Association of America to study hardingfele with Dan Trueman of Princeton University. A dedicated teacher, he has presented workshops on playing and teaching the fiddle at the University of New Hampshire and NJASTA and regularly teaches at Folk College and the Ashokan Center. He plays on the 46th Håkedal hardanger d’amore.

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