October 28, 2008
Author Christine Palamidessi Moore has
released her latest novel The Fiddle Case and Colleen is featured on the
cover. To learn more please visit
www.moorechristine.com.
To purchase the book please visit
Amazon.
The Fiddle Case takes a penetrating look at a time in America when the folk music scene and peace and love culture collided with the dark underbelly of the self-actualization movement. This delightfully thrilling new novel breathes life into the sights, smells, sounds and characters of the 70s. Readers will swear they know Cindy and Anna. The risks they take test the boundaries of family, truth, friendship and love.
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August 25, 2008
New website
launched! New CD "A Different Kind Of Light" now available!
Visit the Music page
for more info on the new CD....
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July 7, 2008
Searson to play the 20th St Patrick's Day Celebration: Celtic Ladies Jubilee Tour, Germany 2009... View PDF for more information.
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April 2008
We now have fashionable Dog Tags available with the band logo engraved on them in our online store! Please visit the store to view a photo of the this product.
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February 7, 2008
Kitty Hoyne’s serves up a Fiery
Fiddle Fest Thursday through Saturday
(Excerpts from: Sizzling Strings)
By Russ Tarby - Syracuse City Eagle
Get ready for three nights of hot-rockin’ Celtic fiddle tunes at Kitty Hoyne’s Irish Pub this week.
The First
Fierce & Fiery Fiddle Fest gets underway at 8 p.m. Thursday
Feb. 7 with a four-man band from Virginia called Scythian. A
Canadian quartet named Searson performs at 9:15 p.m. on
Friday and Saturday Feb. 8-9, and its fiddler, Colleen
Searson will participate in workshops and jam sessions on
Saturday afternoon…
Searson
The
Ottawa, Ontario-based Celtic quartet Searson features
sisters Colleen, Erin and Hetaher, along with their
guitar-playing father, Mike Searson.
“They’re quite a foot-stomping family,” declares the
folk-music magazine Dirty Linen. “The largely Scottish-based
tune sets on their high-energy concert disc, ‘Live’
(self-released in 2005), feature some wonderfully wild and
melodic interplay between fiddler Colleen, who plays with an
aggressive, bow-bouncing style reminiscent of Eileen Ivers,
and pianist Erin, whose rapid-fire keyboard style is
somewhere between boogie and Cape Breton dancehall.
Heather’s bass and bodhran anchor the rhythm.”
Besides, “Live,” Searson has released two other discs,
“Follow” and “House Party.”
Erin Searson calls the band’s sound a “Celtic mix with a
rocky edge,” while Dirty Linen points out that many of the
band’s originals have a “pop-country” feel. The band
performed at the 2007 Syracuse Irish Festival in Clinton
Square.
Following
their Fiery Fiddle Fest performances here, the gals and
their dad will travel to the 16th annual Greater
Philadelphia Mid Winter Scottish and Irish Music Fair, where
they’ll perform on Feb. 15-16.
… [Then] Searson will show how those ancient tunes can be
thoroughly reheated with a rock beat and electric
arrangements when it takes the stage at 9:15 p.m. Saturday.
No matter how much the music changes over the years,
however, one thing remains constant: the fierce and fiery
fiddle.
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September 20, 2007
Searson is
part of a great new compilation album Rootstomp, Volume One!
We are honoured to have had the opportunity to perform with
most of these talented bands found on the album.
Rootstomp is a collection of progressive Celtic/Folk acts that have come together to promote this fast-growing genre of music and to introduce you to some fantastic bands. The album contains 18 tracks with songs from Enter The Haggis (Toronto, ON), Fiddler's Green (Germany), Greenwich Meantime (Cornwall, ON), Searson (Ottawa Valley, ON), Seven Nations (Orlando, FL), Slide Show Baby (Nashville, TN), The Clumsy Lovers (Vancouver, BC), The Elders (Kansas City, MO) and The Paperboys (Vancouver, BC).
Rootstomp
will be available at all of our Live performances and
through our online store. We
hope you love Rootstomp as much as we do!
Learn more at
www.rootstomp.com and
myspace.com/rootstomp
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August 23,
2007
Searson family stays in harmony
By David Burke, Quad-City Times
Ask Erin Searson how long the band that bears her name has been together and you’ll get a quick response.
“All our lives.”
Searson, the band, includes the 28-year-old Erin and her two younger sisters, with their father on the guitar. The fifth member and only non-family member is the drummer.
After an initial appearance in 2005, Searson returns to the Celtic Highland Games in Davenport this weekend, taking center stage for the ceildih on Saturday night at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds.
The Canadian-based band has played in the United States for the past three years.
“It’s a high-energy show, mostly original music, and all three girls step-dance,” Erin Searson said.
Searson said the group enjoys playing shows such as the Celtic Highland Games.
“We always have a great time,” she said. “These kinds of audiences always look for a high-energy show, so that’s what we have to give them.”
The group performs both traditional and original music. The Celtic-influenced sound has found its way into pop and country-type songs by the band.
“We started off traditional,” she said. “Our roots are in that, but we’ve gone beyond that with the live show.”
While her younger sisters live and go to school in Ottawa, about a 90-minute drive away, Erin Searson lives in Eganville, Ontario, a town of about 1,300 that’s a metropolis compared to the 100-person town where the Searson children were raised.
Searson said she sees the family group continuing indefinitely. It already has a scheduled date in Dallas in 2009.
“It’s definitely turning into a long-term commitment for us,” she said.
David
Burke can be contacted at
dburke@qctimes.com.
Comment on this story at
www.qctimes.com.
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March 15,
2007
Celtic band brings national tour to Toms River
By Kelly Meisenberger, Ocean County
Observer
"The music (Searson) plays, I may not know it, but I like it. They're fantastic." — Jim Reynolds, owner, McIntyre's Pub in Toms River
TOMS RIVER — They're high-energy, they're original, and according to the owner of a local pub where they will perform tonight, they're the perfect way to kick off the St. Patrick's Day season.
Searson … a band that features a drummer, three step-dancing sisters and their father, will bring their Celtic background to Toms River 's McIntyre's Pub at 9:45 tonight. Playing mostly original music, the band from Ontario, Canada, is working on their fifth album, according to band member Erin Searson.
"It's so much fun to be on stage and see people enjoying our music, which is mostly all original,'' she said. "For me, that's the best part of being on tour.''
Jim Reynolds, an owner of McIntyre's Pub, said the band has performed at his establishment five or six times previously, and always draws great reactions from the crowd.
"The problem with original music is that if people don't know it, they aren't usually into it,'' Reynolds said. "But the music (Searson) plays, I may not know it, but I like it. They're fantastic.''
The band is made up of sisters Erin, Colleen and Heather Searson; their father, Mike; and drummer Corey Zadorozny.
Erin Searson said music was always present in her family, and she and her sisters began music lessons at young ages. She personally started to play the piano when she was 4 years old.
The sisters play fiddle, bass guitar, mandolin, piano and banjo, as well as step-dance and sing. Their father also plays guitar and sings.
"We played as volunteer work in the community, and it got to a point where we were starting to get paid to do it,'' Erin Searson said of the band's beginnings. "When we got older, in high school and when we went to university, we made a conscious decision to keep the band going.''
The sisters put themselves through college by playing gigs on weekends and during the summer, and three years ago decided to pursue music full-time.
"It's been nonstop from there,'' she said.
The band is booked with performances through 2008. Just in March, they will head to Pennsylvania, Indiana, Missouri, South Carolina and New York.
In the Ottawa Valley where they grew up, Erin Searson said, Celtic music was a way of life.
"Fiddle and step dance were dominant,'' she said. "Our area was saturated with this kind of music.''
Because this style is so uncommon in New Jersey, Reynolds said he hopes residents will come out to experience something different.
"In our area, it's something you just don't see,'' he said. "And with our first parade this weekend, it's a good way to jump-start St. Patty's Day.''
McIntyre's Pub is at 213 Route 37 E. in Toms River. It can be reached by calling (732) 349-0420.
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February 2007
Music Hall Teams Up With American Foundry For
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
[Read
article]
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February 2007
Searson is
proud to introduce the newest venue for live music in The
Ottawa Valley. Located in Pembroke, Ontario, Cafe Ole
was awarded New Business of the Year in 2006. Their coffee
is roasted in Ontario and Cafe Ole takes care to offer local
products as much as possible. Any musicians traveling
through The Ottawa Valley are encouraged to contact Cafe Ole
to showcase their talent. To learn more about Cafe Ole
please visit their
website or phone Christine Booth at 613.732.2137
Thanks for your support Cafe Ole, we love your coffee!
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