Dashing Rock Celtic Trio presents: North Sea Crossing: Music of love, conflict, voyage, and home

Dashing Rock Celtic Trio:

- Betsy Ketudat

- Sarah MacConduibh

- Dave Cabral

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For centuries, the North Sea was not a boundary but a busy highway. Long before modern borders, ships crossed these waters carrying traders, travelers, pilgrims, settlers, and storytellers between the coasts of Ireland, Scotland, England, the Isle of Man, Scandinavia, and the northern isles of Orkney and Shetland. Along with goods and people, music traveled too—shared in ports, carried home by sailors, and reshaped by each new place it landed.
Our program draws from that long musical conversation around the North Sea. Some of the tunes are very old, passed down through generations. Others are newly written, inspired by the same traditions. You may hear echoes of many lands in a single set, reflecting how closely these musical cultures are connected.
As we explored this music, four themes kept appearing again and again: love, conflict, voyage, and home. Songs of devotion and longing, tunes shaped by times of struggle, melodies carried across seas and generations—and always the pull of home.
Our concert moves freely among these traditions and stories, much like the travelers who once crossed these waters. We hope you’ll hear the shared roots, the surprising connections, and the enduring spirit of the music that links these northern shores.

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Betsy Ketudat

Betsy Ketudat graduated from Fredonia State University with a degree in Violin Performance. Betsy has since played in many chamber groups throughout the Boston area was a member of  Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums (MCV) for over 15 years, performing in numerous international tours and Military Tattoos as well as with the Boston Pops Orchestra. She is currently a member of Fellswater Celtic ensemble where she plays fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, fife, and nyckelharpa. She was featured violin soloist at the Yshalle Tattoo in Basel, Switzerland, and has performed in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo, with Fellswater, MCV, and Hjaltibonhoga (an international fiddle group based in Shetland). She has also performed in the Royal Halifax International Tattoo, and at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. She appears on four MCV albums, playing both fiddle and fife, and four Fellswater albums. Betsy is an active fiddle player in the Boston area and enjoys working as an artist and teacher. Betsy plays the fiddle and nyckelharpa with Dashing Rock.

Sarah MacConduibh

Sarah MacConduibh has been playing fife, whistle and flute for decades, and is one of the USA’s premier fifers.  She was a fifer with the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums (MCV) for nearly 40 years, with eight full-length recordings, numerous international performance tours including the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo, as well as collaborations, recordings and performances with the Boston Camerata and Boston Pops Orchestra. Sarah was a founding member and is currently Manager and performer with Fellswater, a very active and energetic New England Celtic ensemble.  Sarah plays whistle, Irish flute, fife and accordion – a new adventure – with Dashing Rock.  In addition to playing music, Sarah teaches leadership to enable women in the workplace, and volunteers as a cat foster and veterinary assistant with the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA).

Dave Cabral

Dave Cabral is an active and versatile musician who performs throughout the greater Boston area as a chamber, orchestral and pit musician. He attended the Boston Conservatory of Music as a viola performance major, but is equally comfortable on cello and the fiddle. Dave’s passion for chamber music takes many forms. He is a founding member and cellist of the Essex Piano Trio and performs professionally with that group as well. He has been a featured soloist in several orchestras including the Melrose Symphony, Salem Philharmonic and the Arlington Symphony. Dave has also performed as fifer with the Middlesex County Volunteers Fifes & Drums (MCV), Boston Camerata and the Boston Pops Orchestra as well as on fiddle with Hjaltibonhoga (Shetland Fiddlers) at the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland, UK. In addition to his work as a professional musician, he is chief echocardiographer (ultrasound of the heart) at Boston Medical Center’s department of Pediatric Cardiology. Dave sings and plays guitar, fiddle and viola with Dashing Rock.

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