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About

Fieldstone

Located in the mountains of northcentral Pennsylvania, the trio mixes Appalachian and Celtic styles and gives them a contemporary twist. Fieldstone features the fiddle playing of Tara Sansom, Bekki Titchner on vocals, whistle and flute, and Mark Titchner on 6- and 12-string guitars and bouzouki.

Blending styles is easy for Tara, who picked up her first fiddle at age four and cut her teeth on Appalachian and Old Time fiddle styles. She� studied with both Celtic and Old Time fiddle greats and holds five Pennsylvania State Championships. Tara was the 1999 junior state fiddle champion, 2002 and 2003 teen state champion, and in 2005 and 2006, she won the state title in the Championship division. In 2003 she also participated in nationals. In 2008, she gradutaed with a degree in music education from Grove City College. She is currently working on her Masters in Appalachian Studies, at East Tennessee State University.

Mark began his musical career with a focus on acoustic music and then gravitated to rock and roll for a number of years. He returned to his roots about a dozen years ago when he and Bekki began a musical course that would take them from 18th and 19th Century American folk back to its Celtic origins. Mark is an avid songwriter and uses his various influences -from the Beatles to Daithi Sproule - to forge his own musical path.

Bekki has been singing since she was five, and counts traditional folk music as her earliest influence. She has sung everything from rock to Broadway to jazz and classical, and studied voice for five years in the 1990s. However, her first love is traditional Celtic music and its rich history.

In their travels Mark and Bekki have performed at the Central New York Scottish Games, the Cumberland Celtic Festival, the Celtic Fling, Highlands of Ohio, the PA Renaissance Faire, the Ligioner Highland Games, the Dayton Celtic Festival, the McHenry Highland Festival and numerous festivals, gatherings, and pubs throughout the region.

Fieldstone released their second CD, "One More Mile" in 2008.


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