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The Emeralds: Off The Edge
by Mark Sabbatini
Fiddler Matthew Smith formed the Emeralds as an instrumental folk trio at age seven, about as critic-proof as a band gets. But after aging a bit and releasing a couple of albums, what one newspaper calls the Cute Era is over.
Off The Edge is the second album by the Alaska-based group, now featuring seven members, including four fiddlers, with a shift in focus to classics by the likes of Django Reinhardt and David Grisman. It's an album ...
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