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 Vocals * Celtic Harp * Flute * Recorders Margaret is the leader and founder of Brocelïande. She grew up in Illinois where she was classically trained as a flutist and recorder player and received degrees in Music and French from Knox College. Margaret brings her academic knowledge of the music of the troubadours to Brocelïande, and in the group she sings in French, Medieval French, Latin, Provençal, Gallician Portuguese, Gaelic, Spanish, and English. She studied voice with vocal coach Lillian Loran and performed for 6 years as singer and harper with the Medieval band Gai Saber. A life-long interest in her Scots Celtic ancestry led to work with the Celtic bands Magic Fire, Four Shillings Short and Avalon Rising, with whom she has recorded the albums Magic Fire, Now, Avalon Rising, Storming Heaven, and The Starlit Jewel. Her solo album, Princess of Flowers, features the other members of Brocelïande on backups. Margaret's interest in music as a healing modality has led to work with Oakland's Healing Muses, Stanford Hospital's Music for Healing Program, and with Vision Journey Facilitator Britt Nesheim. Margaret is past Chairman of the Board of the Bay Area Folk Harp Society and she currently co-runs independent record label Flowinglass Music with her husband Kristoph Klover. |
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 Vocals * Guitars * Octave Mandolin * Oboe Kristoph sings tenor with Brocelïande, plays 12-string and 6-string guitar, octave mandolin, and oboe, and writes original music performed in the band. Prior to his work with Brocelïande, he studied vocal technique with James Schwabacher and Edwin Barlow and appeared with the Marin Opera. Kristoph is a past member of the Celtic bands Magic Fire and Four Shillings Short and currently leads Celtic rock band Avalon Rising, in which he sings lead vocals and plays lead guitar. Kristoph's original music can be heard on the CDs Magic Fire, The Starlit Jewel, To Touch the Stars, Avalon Rising, and Storming Heaven, and in the films The Valley of Fear and Far From the Sea, of which he produced the soundtracks. He has worked with singer/songwriter Cynthia McQuillin as co-producer, arranger and performer. He is co-owner and recording engineer of independent record label Flowinglass Music, and in this capacity he has worked with Grammy-winning harpist Janet Harbison, 5 times all-Ireland concertina champion Gearóid ÓhAllmhuráin, and many others. |
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 Cello * Kamanche * Viola da Gamba * Vocals * Percussion KrisYenney ~ cellist, conductor, composer, and teacher ~ has a M.M. degree in cello performance from New England Conservatory of Music, and has also studied at Julliard, Tanglewood, and in Banff, India and Scotland. She has performed extensively with several ensembles, from the San Jose Symphony and Opera orchestras to the New England String Trio (NESQ), the Left Coast Ensemble, Trio con Brio to The Gryphon Allstars and the TheatreWorks orchestra and Four Shillings Short. She teaches cello and chamber music privately and directs the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra's SuperStrings and Preparatory groups. She can be heard on numerous recordings ranging from classical to Celtic to jazz. Highlights of her musical life include presenting a private concert with Yo-Yo Ma and NESQ, performing with jazz pianist Fred Hersch, accompanying Terry Riley in a concert of Indian Raga in Delhi, India, playing with Alasdair Fraser's fiddle class in Skye and sitting in with the likes of Lyle Lovett, Smokey Robinson and Rod Stewart. She works with teachers and performers in the growing field of sound healing, including Lisa Rafel, Joshua Leeds, Stephen Kent, Barbary Grant and Fabien Maman. Recent exploration of her Scandinavian roots has opened a whole new landscape of traditional musical forms and timbres. Stay tuned! |
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 Guitar * Octave Mandolin * Vocals * Whistle * Melodeon * Percussion Karl left Broceliande in 2009, to persue other musical interests. He can still be heard on any of Broceliande's first 6 CD's. Karl became interested in music growing up in rural Massachusetts. He taught himself harmonica at age 8; he learned guitar from singing nuns shortly thereafter, then sang and played guitar in folk-masses and with friends in Massachusetts. He was influenced by recordings of the Newport Folk Festivals at an early age, then studied guitar with East Coast guitarist Phil Cooper. He began playing Irish music in college and taught himself mandolin at that time. Karl played guitar with a progressive band at MIU in Iowa, then continued with folk music in California with Carol Hunner, First of May, Four Shillings Short, and Nancy Cassidy. learning the tin whistle, melodeon, and doumbek along the way. As well as performing in Brocelïande, he currently plays with Alan Keith, Maxina Ventura, Gary Breitbard, Harmon's Peak, Luceo, Mr. Barky, Slainte of SF Bay, teaches guitar, & creates web sites and does graphic design. He has appeared on the albums For Earth and Her People, Up From the Bog, Incantation, The Starlit Jewel, Along Celtic Lines, To Touch the Stars and many others. | |
| Website by K. Franzen & M. Davis | Contact Margaret: margaret@flowinglass.com |
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