Music at St. Peter’s Concert Series is pleased to welcome musicians Maggie Sansone and Andrea Hoag as performers for the 3rd Annual Celtic Duo Concert.  This year marks Sansone’s 3rd appearance on the series joined for the first time by Grammy nominated fiddler, Andrea Hoag.  The program, in celebration of upcoming St. Patrick's Day, will feature featuring toe-tapping jigs, heartfelt Irish airs, and a few sing-along selections.

The concert will take place on Saturday, March 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Second Street in Lewes.  A suggested donation of $15 per person will be received at the door; there are no advance ticket sales.

Maggie Sansone is America's premier hammered dulcimer player, Maggie brings a unique beauty and vision to the ancient music of the Celts. The Washington Post said "Few recordings span the gap of generations so gracefully...She manages to balance art and accessibility, past and present, with unusual care and deftness."

At the center of it all are the percussive yet melodious sounds of Maggie's wooden mallets dancing across the dulcimer's seventy-five strings. Featured on CBS-TV Sunday Morning, and NPR's All Things Considered, Performance Today and The Thistle & Shamrock, Maggie is known throughout the U.S. as a performer, producer, hammered dulcimer teacher and founder of Maggie's Music record label which distributes over fifty recordings worldwide.

She has received numerous nominations and WAMMIE awards including Best Celtic Instrumentalist and Best Record Label from the Washington Area Music Association. Maggie's CDs include: Mystic Dance, Celtic Meditations, A Traveler's Dream, Dance Upon the Shore, Mist & Stone, Traditions; Ancient Noels ( with Ensemble Galilei), Sounds of the Season, Sounds of the Season II, A Scottish Christmas ( with Bonnie Rideout, Al Petteway) and Merrily Greet the Time (with Sue Richards).

Andrea Hoag is a Grammy nominee and winner of Washington Area Music Awards “Best Traditional Folk Instrumentalist,” Andrea Hoag is a legendary performer of Swedish folk fiddling in America. Her music has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Performance Today, at the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, and at numerous venues around the U.S. and in Sweden. With a particular interest in in-depth musical conversations, Andrea has collaborated across genres with many respected artists, from pianist Jacqueline Schwab to southern old-time master Bruce Molsky.

For more than 30 years, Andrea Hoag has devoted herself to traditional fiddling. Immersing herself first in southern Appalachian music and culture in the early 1980s, she was overtaken by a love of Swedish fiddling’s unusual scales and rhythms. Awarded a fellowship from the Skandia Music Foundation, she studied at Sweden’s respected Malungs Folkhögskola, earning the certificate in Folk Violin Pedagogy in 1984. She also studied in-depth with elder tradition-bearers Pekkos Gustaf and Nils Agenmark, masters of the complex, demanding Bingsjö fiddling dialect. Andrea has taught Swedish music in many settings, including The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Weeks, Swannanoa Gathering, and Värmland Folk Music School.

Adventurousness and curiosity are hallmarks of Andrea’s career: she’s delved into and performed musical styles from Irish to Klezmer, from country rock to swing. A natural on the concert stage, she also revels in playing for dance. Throughout the 80s and 90s, she toured with bands known for their improvisation and rich arrangements, including Footloose and Future Geezers. Since 2000, Andrea has focused on collaborations and studio work with a variety of performers, including recording the Grammy-nominated album Hambo in the Snow with Hardanger-fiddle virtuoso Loretta Kelley and innovative bassist Charlie Pilzer, and a recording with The Berntsons, a tradition-bearing family from Wisconsin.

Andrea’s latest venture is the Old Doors/New Worlds project, an extended collaboration between musicians and dancers from deep in a variety of traditions. The project includes a documentary film about the collaborative process, as the artists work together to create a performance suite, recordings, and an ongoing educational program.