OLIVEBRIDGE — A special public concert featuring the celebrated Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas Duo will be presented by the Ashokan Center in Olivebridge, NY on Sunday, May 12 at 3:00 PM. The duo will be joined by fiddler Emerald Rae and cellist Summer McCall, as well as Ashokan Music and Dance Camp founders Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, in a musical program that explores both the emotional and chronological range of traditional Scottish music.

The Sunday afternoon concert will conclude the Ashokan Center’s eleventh annual Scottish String Fling weekend, a group instructional workshop where fiddlers and cellists learn tunes by ear, which was initiated by Fraser in 2014.

The Scottish String Fling is part of a decades-long tradition of music and dance camps founded by Jay Ungar and Molly Mason at the Ashokan Center, and is one of many music camps created and led by Fraser over the decades — including the Valley Of The Moon Fiddle Camp in the Santa Cruz mountains of northern California, where Fraser first met an eleven-year-old budding cellist named Natalie Haas in 1995.

“It was just a life-changing experience for me,” says Haas. “It’s where I discovered traditional music.” Today, Natalie Haas is a world-renowned and highly in-demand performer and educator in her own right, and the Fraser/Haas duo partnership has endured for more than twenty years, through six acclaimed recordings and countless performances at concerts and festivals worldwide.

“The strength of a duo is amazing; you can sort of “live” ideas together, and I’m lucky to be playing with someone who is so simpatico,” says Fraser. “Every concert we do celebrates the music and its power to transport, to lift us… and we are highly likely to be test-driving new arrangements, new ideas, surging on forwards.”

When possible, the Ashokan Center tickets work on sliding scale admission. Tickets to this concert start at $20 for the suggested price and $10 as the minimum price per ticket for all-age tickets.

The performance will also be live-streamed on Facebook and available to watch from anywhere in the world for up to one year after the performance. The link to the online stream will be available on Ashokan’s website prior to the performance.

Tickets and full details are available at https://ashokancenter.org/events/.