Jaime RT
Jaime plays a beautiful 5 string viola, creating
the most rich, spacious and soulful folk sounds you've ever heard
painted on a tapestry of groovin' guitar, hot world percussion, and
sweet vocals.
Jaime
RT is an award winning, dynamic performer and composer who originally
hails from the BC Kootenays where she began her performing career at
the age of 12 with family band "The Huscroft Family Fiddlers." Jaime RT
released her first solo album "Reach" in April 2005 on the Dog My Cat label and won a nomination at the 2005 Canadian Folk Music
Awards for Best Solo Album of the Year and a 2006 Western Canadian
Music Awards nomination for outstanding instrumental recording. Her
music has been featured on CBC's Vinyl Cafe and has received wide
recognition, great reviews, and international radio play. With her amazing creativity as a composer and unique sound as a five string
violist, Jaime RT is one of the West Coast's most promising emerging
folk artists. Her latest record "SPARK" ( released Feb 2007) is already getting great reviews and riding radio waves across the
country.
Jaime can also be found playing fiddola and keys with
Juno award winner James Keelaghan. RT has performed with numerous players over the years
such as Kettle of Fish, Song of the Isles, The Gruff and has opened for
fiddle giants Martin Hayes and Alasdair Fraser. Jaime has honed her
dynamic live performance and has established herself as a top Canadian
fiddler who is putting the West Coast on the fiddle map. Summers find
Jaime teaching and performing at fiddle camps and festivals across
Canada and the US, sharing the stage with fiddlers such as Oliver
Schroer, Daniel Lapp, Pierre Schryer, Liz Carrol, Brenda Stubbert,
Jerry Holland, Gordon Stobbe, Ian Fraser, & Catriona MacDonald.
Jaime
RT loves to share her musical passion with children, through teaching
and school shows. She is committed to continuing her work with the
aborigional children of the Canadian Arctic through a program called
Strings Across the Sky that teaches fiddle--a traditional intrument of
the North--to its youth.
Fiddleworks is her baby: a
non-profit society dedicated to fun & innovative fiddle education
sharing the joy of music while building valuable life skills through
music education, recordings, videos, internet, lessons and camps.
At
home on Salt Spring Island Jaime can be found performing at community
events and teaching or playing fiddle, violin, piano, theory and
composition in her unique straw bale music studio.
Her
music partner Andy Hillhouse, is a singer, songwriter, composer,
guitarist, music educator and nice guy. He has done it all, from
touring Mexico playing Mariachi music to performing on main stages at
major folk festivals. He is the founder of the popular Canadian celtic
funk band Mad Pudding, and plays guitar with Jaime RT, as well as
Canadian roots groups Cleia and The McDades. Andy was a member of the
Juno-nominated vocal collective Musica Intima from 1994 to 2005, is
former director of the Universal Gospel Choir, and has directed the
Youth & Concert choirs at the Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach. He
holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of British Columbia.
Together, Andy and Jaime create music that moves your feet and your soul. Guaranteed.
