Violin Viola bass Voice
Based in New England, MorganEve Swain has spent the past two decades playing music in studios, bars, venues, festivals and homes. She's driven all over the US in a 12-passenger van, lived on tour busses, and flown over-seas to perform in Brazil and Europe. She currently fronts The Huntress and Holder of Hands, plays upright bass for The Devil Makes Three, works as a violin technician, teaches violin to kids aged 5 to 12 and collaborates with several musicians, writers and choreographers on various projects. She also loves dogs.
“Whether it’s performing on-the-fly string arrangements, creating and stacking vocal ensembles, or intimate background vocals, ME is an asset in the studio. ”
Instrument and bow repair
Email or call/text for repair quotes and services.
401.451.5968
swain.morganeve@gmail.com
Or visit The Creative Music Center at 701 Main St, Monroe CT
Servicing all bowed instruments.
MorganEve works mostly with violins and violas, and the bows for all bowed instruments including basses, cellos, and the occasional tagelharpa.
MorganEve trained under Frances Morris, Michael Daddona, Paul Wiessmeyer and Lynn Hannings at The New Hampshire Violin Craftsmanship Institute and apprenticed at McCarten Violins in Pawtucket RI.
She is the orchestral instrument repair tech at Creative Music Center in Monroe, CT and works out of her home shop, LadyBird Fiddle and Bow Repair in Haddam, CT.
recording
Studio Work
by MorganEve Swain
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Last Good Tooth
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Ian Fitzgerald
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I&R
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Daphne Lee Martin
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MorganEve Swain
rates
Studio Rates
are always negotiable
But in general, are $400/day, and occasionally require a travel stipend, if traveling more than 2 hours or requiring an airplane ride.
Remote recording work is also available.
MorganEve works best in collaboration. With your input on style and placement, string parts are "written" in the moment, by ear. Bass parts generally require demos beforehand. Vocals are always fun. And harmonizing strings and vocals are a specialty.
Tour/Collaborations are case-by-case. Get in touch if you're interested in either and negotiations will be made. Preferably over drinks. (Or email.)
teaching
MorganEve began learning the violin at age three
at the Newtown Suzuki School in Newtown CT. Around age ten, she discovered the fiddle music of Maritime Canada and by sixteen she was performing in Irish and Americana bands around Fairfield and New London Counties. Since 2008 she has toured extensively playing violin, guitar, and upright bass as half of the duo Brown Bird, and a member of The Devil Makes Three, among others. She continues to perform and tour as much as possible and is passionate about teaching music as a language.
She teaches at The Newtown Suzuki School and out of her home in Haddam.
Tour
MorganEve began touring in 2007. Though financially disastrous, those first tours instilled in her the love of the road. While traveling through Virginia in 2008, she met Dave Lamb, who would become her partner in music and life. The two wrote, recorded and toured as the duo Brown Bird until Lamb's death from leukemia in 2014.
After Brown Bird, MorganEve toured with The Devil Makes Three through the US and Europe, playing fiddle and cello. In the spring of 2016 she began touring with Last Good Tooth, playing 5-string viola, sometimes bass and harmony vocals.
She has continued to tour as often as possible, playing upright bass, viola, violin, voice, and often providing her tour-van, a gold 12- passenger lovingly named Goldie Ha(w)n Solo.
MorganEve is happiest on the road and loves driving.
@swain.morganeve
Contact
MorganEve wants to hear from you and about your project.