Kira Ott is an electrifying young fiddler from Southern
California. She learned much of her music from the community
of musicians at the Scoil Gheimhridh Frankie
Kennedy in Donegal, where she has studied every winter
for the last few years. Trained as a classical violist,
she took up the fiddle when she was a teenager after hearing
Irish traditional music on "The Thistle and Shamrock," National
Public Radio's weekly Celtic music program. Since then
she has played alongside some of the most respected performers
in Irish music and teaches regularly in the Los Angeles
area. Email: kira@ciunas.net.