Seattle-based fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld is fluent in a wide range of styles, from Celtic and old-time to Scandinavian and Eastern European. She has performed and taught for 30 years at festivals, schools, music and dance camps throughout the U.S. and abroad, finding herself onstage in places as diverse as the Manaus Operahouse in the Brazilian Amazon to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. Originally from Oregon, Ruthie spent 15 years in New England, where she played with the twin-fiddle stringband The Poodles, was a mainstay on the contradance circuit, and commuted to Europe to play with The American Cafe Orchestra. Since 1996 she's been back in the Pacific Northwest, where she teaches and performs with guitarist John Miller and with French cabaret band Rouge when not on the road with her many musical cohorts.

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