OXFORD – On Friday at 8 p.m., 6 On The Square (6OTS) welcomes Sara Milonovich and Daisycutter. Sara, an award winning talent to be treasured, plays fiddle-fueled music which can easily change from a dark Celtic ballad to upbeat, foot stompin’ bluegrass, and then onto her rendition of tunes from the 70s.
Sara Milonovich is a rarity in the music world: at once a successful singer, fiddler, composer, and bandleader, while at the same time being a sought-after accompanist for a number of other artists in many musical genres. She has performed throughout the U.S. and Europe in the Americana roots, folk-rock, bluegrass, Celtic, and Appalachian music scenes, collaborating with artists such as Richard Shindell, Cathie Ryan, The McKrells, Pete Seeger, Eliza Gilkyson, Quickstep, Anne Hills, Antje Duvekot, and Leslie Ritter & Scott Petito, among others.
In her live performances, she is supported by her 5-piece band Daisycutter - a group of adventurous fellow travelers from the many and varied music scenes of New York City. Called “acoustic and electric, agnostic and eclectic,” it’s a whirling mix of roots-rock, Americana-folk-pop, oldtime-newgrass, jamband-Celtodelic-worldbeat-jazz: alt-rock, alt-country, alt-folk, alt-pop, alt-everything! The band features: Andy Goessling (of Railroad Earth) on mando, banjo, dobro, and saxes; Greg Anderson (of Eileen Ivers’ band) on guitars; Leo Traversa (Eileen Ivers, Steve Kimock, Tania Maria) on bass; and Steve Holloway (Solas, Jill Sobule, Riverdance) on percussion.
Sara’s newest CD (also called Daisycutter), which was released in 2009, was a nominated Grammy semifinalist. It features many of her compositions, along with fresh readings of songs by a variety of contemporary writers. The album is also notable for the many friends from her various musical lives who joined in: newgrass mandolin stalwart Mike Marshall, Nashville bassist Viktor Krauss, renowned Austin player and producer Lloyd Maines, Irish guitarist John Doyle, jazz reedman Matt Darriau of The Klezmatics, and Springsteen banjoist Gregory Liszt, among others.
