Rosie Shipley, Fiddler

Rosie Shipley grew up in urban Baltimore, Maryland, surrounded by traditional Irish music and dance and in rural Nova Scotia, Canada, home of the famous Cape Breton-style of Scottish traditional fiddle playing.  Rosie had her first violin lesson at age three and, when she was eight, began to learn traditional tunes from fiddler Brendan Mulvihill.  Rosie spent years nurturing her talent at the weekly sessions at J. Patrick's pub and working with Navan-native Peter Fitzgerald.  Along with her brothers, Rosie spent a portion of her teenaged summers in Cape Breton at the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts and Crafts where she studied with Sandy MacIntyre and Ryan MacNeill.  Today, she plays fiddle and piano and teaches students young and old at her popular music studio in Baltimore.

Rosie tours with Irish singer/multi-instrumentalist Gerry O'Beirne and with Washington, D.C.-based singer/guitar player Lisa Moscatiello, with whom she has recently released a CD entitled Well Kept Secrets.   For further information, including a schedule of Rosie's other upcoming performances, please visit the Shipwhistle website.