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Alex Caton w/ Sabra Guzman

In celebration of her new CD, Music For The Sinners and The Saved, Virginian Alex Caton is hitting the trail with West Coast's own Sabra Guzman. Alex and Sabra will take you to the other side and back with driving fiddle tunes, haunting clawhammer banjo, down-home mountain songs and uplifting gospel numbers. They infuse their musical roots with the lonesome sounds from the hollers of Virginia for shows that are original, exciting, intensely personal and always traditional.

Alex Caton - PictureAlex Caton first put a bow in her hands at the age of four and played violin through her college years at Binghamton University. As her interest in Irish and Old Time music grew, she changed her tunes (and her instrument name) and began playing and teaching fiddle on the side. But it wasnÂt until she moved to the Charlottesville, VA area to work on a PhD in Anthropology that she found her true calling. Alex fell in love with the music scene in Charlottesville and soon cast aside her career as a professional archaeologist (she worked up and down the East Coast of the United States, as well as in West Africa) to focus on fiddle music full-time. Since 2001, Alex has lived in Gordonsville, VA, teaching Irish, Old Time and Gypsy music out of her home and playing with a wide variety of local groups including the Irish band, The Ryegrass Rollers.