Moritz Behm and Roland Barrett's musical paths have gone many different places in their separate musical careers, and they now bring all that experience together in the form of a potent and exciting new duo, "Moritz & Rollie".
To hear violinist and mandolinist Moritz Behm perform is to be mesmerized by a beautiful tone that is rich in passion and creativity , moves your body , and inspires the soul. Classically trained and having been immersed in Celtic, Rock, and improvisation, he has developed a unique individual sound and quality of playing. Behm now also adds a warm and expressive voice to his music with ground breaking new songs. www.moritzbehm.ca
please listen to clips:
Origin Unknown (solo violin): http://www .moritzbehm.ca/audio/origin_hi.mp3
Same Old Place (voice, mandolin, violin): https://www .youtube.com/watch?v=KenZRnHVPvU The Beast (violin with full band) http://www .moritzbehm.ca/audio/beast_hi.mp3
Roland “Rollie” Barrett, a contemporary folk & roots singer/songwriter and storyteller who draws his inspiration from a deep well of Canadiana. Having spent considerable time traveling across this great country and living as far west as Haida Gwaii to it’s eastern extreme counterpoint, St. Johns, NFLD, he has collected an endless vault of imagery and lyrics from towns and highways. In unison with his own personal journey’s he is lyrically inspired by many Canadian music pioneers such as Leonard Cohen, Gordon Lightfoot, Gord Downie and of course, Neil Young.

Together, Constantly recreating, rehearsing, and removing themselves from the generic and mundane, they provide an every changing traditional music experience crossing and melding genres of traditional Celtic Folk, Rock, Singer/Songwriter for a new/old experience, never to disappoint!