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“I called this album ‘A Letter Home’ because it’s really like a set of landmarks, it’s my favourite pieces of music over the last ten years,” says fiddler and composer, Athena Tergis. The collection winds through fourteen tracks of jigs, reels, highlands, set dance tunes and flings with origins in Galway, Cork, Antrim, and Donegal to those from the Scottish Highlands, the Irish community of Chicago and the heart of Cape Breton.

John Doyle produced the album, which is released on Compass records. Guest musicians include both Sharon Shannon and Billy McComiskey on accordions, cellist, Natalie Haas, Ben Wittman on percussion, and fiddler, Liz Carroll.

Athena Tergis currently lives in Italy, and has started a studio in Tuscany, Terra Linda Studios. She returns often to the Americas to perform, including upcoming plans to appear with Mick Moloney and the well-known group, Green Fields of America, with whom she’s also working on a recording.