About the Band

The Moving Violations have a playful energy that transcends borders of countries and encourages spontaneity and improvisation. Driving double fiddle harmonies, strong rhythm, affectionate abandon and occasional silliness prevails. Original compositions as well as Celtic, Eastern European, Swedish, Klezmer, and Classical are all fair game for The Moving Violations.
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Praise

"The Moving Violations presents another side of contra music, with a fusion approach that adds their arrangements of dance tunes from Scandanavia and Eastern Europe to contra's Anglo-Celtic framework, all played with affectionate abandon. Their smoothly layered sound is as diverse as their repertoire, as twin fiddles blend with various mixtures of piano, accordion, guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, and percussion."

--Tom Nelligan, Dirty Linen magazine

"This wonderfully talented quintet of players . . . revolutionized the New England dance scene by playing traditional tunes in strange and wonderful ways."

-- T.D. Sing Out magazine

Sample

Lyme Jig by Van Kaynor / Farewell to the Taliban by Keith Murphy / Dragonfly Reel by Van Kaynor
Track 2 from our Quick Spin CD