{"id":1467,"date":"2009-04-16T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2017-06-20T09:59:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:59:22","slug":"ann-marie-calhoun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2009\/04\/16\/ann-marie-calhoun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ann Marie Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"280\" height=\"231\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/eHSnE8raC0U&amp;feature\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ann Marie Calhoun\u2019s music career began at the tender age of 3 when she began taking violin lessons. She earned a fellowship with the National Symphony Orchestra during high school. She has branched out from her classical music training to work with music industry heavyweights such as The Dave Matthews Band, Mick Jagger, Steve Vai, Ringo Star and Widespread Panic.<!--more--><br \/>\nMy first exposure to Calhoun came through the Youtube video titled \u201cPhish fiddle.\u201d Calhoun performed the Phish song \u201cStash\u201d and even those who hate the neo-hippy band would be impressed by the violin virtuoso\u2019s treatment of the song. Clocking in at just over six minutes, the song requires a significant investment in time that more than pays off.<br \/>\nAfter playing through the song\u2019s composed sections a couple times, Calhoun begins an improvised solo around the three-minute mark and hits full face-melting mode at 4:25 in.<br \/>\nFew musicians feel equally at home in both the classical realm and the improvisational world. Calhoun\u2019s music flows effortlessly and no matter how many times I hear \u201cPhish fiddle,\u201d I always get goose bumps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Marie Calhoun\u2019s music career began at the tender age of 3 when she began taking violin lessons. She earned a fellowship with the National Symphony Orchestra during high school. She has branched out from her classical music training to work with music industry heavyweights such as The Dave Matthews Band, Mick Jagger, Steve Vai, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[357,358,360,73,356,1960,359],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-ann-marie-calhoun","tag-fiddle","tag-improv-music","tag-music","tag-phish","tag-rusty-pate","tag-youtube-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-nF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15385,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/15385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}