FiddleSticks is the Davis family folk group that performs folk songs and traditional tunes from the Celtic lands, from England, and from America. Our band is made up of three sisters, Rebecca, Kathryn, and Elizabeth, and their dad Mark Davis. Mark's wife is Andi. Featured instruments include fiddle, flutes, cello, bodhran (Irish drum), guitar, and vocals.

We've made eight recordings, "A FiddleSticks Sampler" (1998), "Playing Favorites" (1999) and a Christmas CD called "Cold Fusion" (2000), "Time and Again" (2001), "Cat and the Fiddle" (2002), "Return to Nauvoo" (2004), "Ampersand" (2006), and "Farewell to Nauvoo" (2006). Our music is a mix of traditional dance music, together with original pieces by the group's young composer (Kate), as well as plenty of "storytelling" songs of life, love, and laughter. A typical performance also includes a few set of Klezmer (Jewish), continental European, and Mormon Pioneer music.

We got our start playing at the Maryland Renaissance Fair in Annapolis under the direction of the girls' mother, Kira. We have performed for various festivals, concert series, civic organizations and private parties throughout throughout the Mountain West, California, Maryland and New England. We did a vacation/concert tour in Holland and Italy in summer 2000. In 2003 we did a reverse pioneer trek concert tour from Utah back across Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Iowa, ending with a week long engagement in Nauvoo, Illinois. 2004 took us to Japan for concerts around Toyko and Nagoya, and to the Pacific Northwest. In spite of school and work we still manage to do over fifty public performances a year, including concerts and school programs for the 1998, 2000, and 2002 Utah Performing Arts Tour.

Each of our CDs has been a final nominee for Pearl Awards, which are kind of like the Utah Grammys. "The Cat and the Fiddle" was awarded the Best Contemporary Instrumental Recording Pearl Award in 2003 for the track "See Spot Run." And "Return to Nauvoo" won a Best Art Design award for our designer Cindy Ferguson. We have performed on various television and radio programs, were official 2002 Salt Lake Olympics Cultural Arts performers, and our music appears on numerous CD anthologies, including the LDS Styles series, and the Timpanogos Singer Songwriter Alliance compilations.

We got our start in 1991 while living in Takoma Park, Maryland. We now live in Orem, Utah, right near the mouth of Provo Canyon where we moved in 1996. We miss Maryland's oak trees, but we like the Utah mountains.

website: www.fiddle-sticks.com