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Jan 24: Craig Ferguson show w/ Ringo Starr

Jan 25: Larry King Live w/ Ringo Starr

Jan 25: LA House of Blues w/ Ringo Starr

Feb 10: Grammy's w/ Foo Fighters

Feb 17: Guest Appearance w/Yonder Mountain String Band

Feb 28: Live Studio Album Recording w/ The Hooters

Feb 29: Guest Appearance w/ Disco Biscuits

Mar 1: Live Studio Album Recording w/ The Hooters

Mar 7-15 : Recording w/ Dave Stewart

Apr 3: The Tonight Show w/ Ferras

Apr 19: Central Park NY guest appearance w/ Vusi Mahlasela

Apr 26: Raleigh, NC Guest Appearance w/ Widespread Panic

Apr 27: Guest Appearance w/ Switchfoot

Apr 30: Tribeca film festival w/ Jon Foreman

May 10: Pangea Day w/ Dave Stewart

June 13: Seedtime Fest in Whitesburg KY w/ Darrell Scott

July 4: Rothbury Festival, Guest Appearance w/ Widespread Panic

July 19: Portsmouth VA, Guest Appearance w/ Widespread Panic

Aug 29 - Sept 21: US/Canada tour w/ Dave Stewart


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Ann Marie Calhoun is a Virginia girl who loves her hillbilly dad and Chinese mom very much. They got her started on the violin at the tender age of three, and after years of violin lessons, scores of first place trophies at violin and fiddle competitions, a fellowship with the National Symphony Orchestra, a distinguished major in music at the University of Virginia, and performances with a variety of bands and orchestras, Ann Marie decided to be a science and strings teacher at Woodberry Forest School. (She also double majored in Biology and took pre-medicine requirements just for fun.)

Despite her best efforts to become a professor, Ann Marie has started to be recognized as an internationally acclaimed violinist. As a member of “Old School Freight Train” from 2001-2003, Ann Marie began earning a reputation as a classically trained violinist who could fiddle and improvise with the best. She began working as a commercial studio musician and her band was offered a recording contract with the label owned by country and bluegrass legend “Ricky Skaggs”. After Ann Marie left “Old School Freight Train” to devote more time to teaching, she was invited to play on the “Dave Matthew’s Band” album “Stand Up” and invited to join a North African band called “Kantara” to play Arabic-Appalachian fusion music. After touring Italy and Africa with Kantara, Ann Marie accepted an offer to be a special guest soloist with rock legend Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull. At this time, she decided to take a leave of absence from teaching and pursue music.

Highlights of this year include performing in the Carthage ampitheatre as a soloist with Kantara and the Vienna House Opera Orchestra, and a performance in Israel with the Ra’anana Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestral Jethro Tull. Performances with Orchestral and acoustic Jetho Tull have taken Ann Marie across America (including a performance in the legendary Rose Theatre in New York), Scandinavia, and Germany.

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Rockbridge Guitar Company
My husband’s guitar company! They make great guitars and many great guitarists play their instruments

Jethro Tull
I’m flattered to be a guest artist with this legendary band

Kantara
One of the bands I tour with based out of North Africa.

Old School Freight Train
My old band. They play amazing new music.

D'addario
They take care of my string and cable needs.

Samson Tech
They take care of my wireless needs

Kenneth Cole
Kenneth offered to outfit me after seeing my concert with orchestral Tull in New York. I can’t wait to meet with his design team.

Dave Matthews Band
I recorded four songs on their album “Stand Up”. I listened to them as a teen and never dreamed that I would play with them someday.

Woodberry
I’m taking a leave from this school to pursue music.