Jacqueline Schwab


NOTE: for much better and more up-to-date information see Jacqueline's web site at www.jacquelineschwab.com 


Jacqueline Schwab

Jacqueline Schwab is best known for her solo piano improvisations on traditional music in Ken Burns's award-winning PBS series, The Civil War, Baseball and The West (Elektra/Nonesuch and Sony labels) and with the improvisatory English country dance ensemble Bare Necessities (Rounder/Varrick and Flying Fish labels). Mad Robin, Jacqueline's first solo recording, contains her soulful arrangements of English country dance tunes for listening. Jacqueline has also performed and recorded with Scottish singer Jean Redpath and fiddler Alasdair Fraser, singers Jeanne Morrill and Jane Peppler, glass armonica player Dean Shostak, and the Renaissonics ensemble. She has researched primary sources for eighteenth century English country dance music. She accompanies many styles of dance, including English and Scottish, traditional American, vintage tango, ballet, modern and jazz.


Jacqueline's solo recording Mad Robin can be ordered from her by mail. Please send your order and a check (drawn on a United States Bank and made out to Jacqueline Schwab) to:

Jacqueline Schwab
P.O. Box 380063
Cambridge, Massachusetts
USA 02238-0063

Compact Discs are $15.00 apiece plus $1.50 for postage (Fourth Class).
Cassette Tapes (available 1997) are $10.00 each plus $1.50 postage (Fourth Class).

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