BRUCE SAGAN                           

Bruce has taught and played at a variety of folk music and dance 
camps and workshops, and has been music director for Nordic Fiddles
and Feet at Buffalo Gap Camp in West Virginia as well as California's
Stockton Folk Dance Camp.  He was invited to play at the Smithsonian 
Folklife Festival in Washington DC and has played for dances,
workshops, and concerts in the United States, Europe, and Australia. 

In addition to fiddle, Bruce plays Scandinavian music on the haunting, 
highly ornamented Norwegian hardingfele, the Swedish nyckelharpa 
(keyed fiddle), and the tussefloyte (recorder).  He has visited 
Scandinavia numerous times to work with fiddlers and collect material.  
He was awarded the Zorn Diploma in Bronze on the basis of his playing
before a jury of some of Sweden's best fiddlers.  This honor has been
accorded to very few non-Swedes. 

Bruce has been playing music from the Balkans since the late 70s.
He has studied the gudulka, the Bulgarian rebec, with some of its top 
players and even lived in Bulgaria to absorb more about the instrument.
He performs with the Bulgarian trio "Velselba" (meaning
"merriment" or "high-jinks") along with Nan Nelson and Chris Rietz.
After they opened for the group "Bulgari" which consists of some of 
Bulgaria's foremost musicians and dancers, their leader Georgi Dojchev
told the audience that they were "the best group of Americans playing 
Bulgarian music."  He is currently living in the Washington, DC, area
and has joined the band "Lyuti Chushki."

Bruce's first album, Spelstundarna, has won critical acclaim on both
sides of the Atlantic.  In a review of his second CD, With Friends, the
premier Swedish folkmusic magazine Spelmannen said that he played
"som en infoeding," i.e., "like a native."  This is high praise in a
country where it is often felt that you should only play tunes from
your own village. 

NB In the Swedish quote, "oe" is being used to represent an "o" with an
umlaut.  

			DISCOGRAPHY


1.  Spelstundarna (with Andrea Hoag and Larry Robinson), E. Thomas,
	ETD 102. 

2.  With Friends (with Brad Battey, Nan Nelson, and Chris Rietz),
	Bruce Sagan, UCP number 83707 55622