Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas

Fusion unafraid of sentiment

by James. M. Manheim

posted 1/19/2009

There’s a new fusion genre emerging in folk music, so far without a name. You could call it chamber folk, by analogy with chamber pop, a streak of quiet indie rock that uses orchestral instruments. Some of it turned up on A Prairie Home Companion a few weeks back, with the prodigiously talented mandolinist Chris Thile joining the Appalachian Journey

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