Lead fiddler, Jacie Sites is the current National certified fanciest fiddler an award she has won three times. She is also a past Idaho and Oregon State Grand Champion as well as Northwest Regional Grand Champion. Jacie was the first runner up in the National fiddle contest in the Young Adult division in 2004. Jacie began studying fiddle competition style fiddle tunes when she was 15. Jacie was the concertmaster for her high school orchestra and a founding member of the Pick 'n' Bow company, a folk bluegrass group in Pendleton, Oregon. She studied fiddle and violin pedagogy at Eastern Oregon University for two years where she concurrently studied cello under the direction of Kenneth Woods at Eastern Oregon University.
Jacie played with cello and violin with the Grande Ronde and Oregon East Symphonies. She then continued on to study cello on scholarship at Boise State University where she was the assistant principal cellist in the Boise State Symphony. For the past few years Jacie has also been a featured performer with the Teton Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Eric Wenstrom. Jacie has taught fiddling and suzuki violin and many camps throughout the Northwest. Twice she has judged the National oldtime fiddlers contest in 2004 and 2007. Jacie is also the curriculum director for non-profit program called Strings for Kids www.stringsforkids.org. This program, the brainchild of both Joe and Jacie Sites, funds dozens of students each year who could not otherwise afford stringed instruments and lessons.
Celtic Air is a contemporary fiddle band comprised of fiddle, guitar, bass, piano and drums. Celtic air plays many genres of music including jazz, western swing, Celtic, old-time, bluegrass and contest style show tunes. The members of Celtic Air enjoy playing many different styles of music but the glue that binds them together is their love for hard driving; in your face Celtic fiddle tunes.
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