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Greenland - Ben Plotnick (feat. Kaitlyn Raitz)
1 On My Own (feat. Kelsey McNulty)  
2 Molly's Favorite  
3 Abandon Ship!  
4 Halfway down the Track (feat. Jamie Oliver)  
5 Fern Galley  
6 Greenland (feat. Kaitlyn Raitz)  
7 Train to Babylon  
8 Every Night When You're Lying Alone (feat. Jarred Albright & Claire Lecocq)  
9 Town and Country Times  
10 One Goodbye (feat. Angie Hilts) [A Toronto Love Song]  
11 K&k Waltz  
12 Red Wing  
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Nashville-based, Canadian-born fiddler Ben Plotnick is thrilled to release a new album of original Texas Swing material, entitled "Greenland". This virtuosic album is comprised of both original vocals and instrumentals, bringing elements of folk, country and bluegrass together in a classic swing sound. Co-produced by 5-time Juno award nominee - Andrew Collins, the disc features some of Canada's elite folk instrumentalists and vocalists, including musicians from the Slocan Ramblers, The Boxcar Boys, The Andrew Collins Trio and The Double Cuts, among others.

15 NEW  56 TOTAL
SYND: Out Of the Woods, Modern Jazz Today
Direct: Stingray
Markets include: New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Houston, Baltimore, Albuquerque, Knoxville, Madison WI, KS(Statewide), ME(Statewide), Montreal, Vancouver
INTER: Canada, Italy, Spain, Israel
Online: GreenArrow, SunMusic, Party934

  • 10 String Symphony, Oliver The Crow - World Cafe Nashville joint interview was bantering with familiarity
    Posted At: September 17, 2018 12:00 AM

    When the members of 10 String Symphony (Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer) and Oliver the Crow (Ben Plotnick and Kaitlyn Raitz) strolled through the doorway of an East Nashville brewery together late one Wednesday afternoon, they were right on time for their joint interview and already bantering with familiarity, which wasn't the least bit surprising. Baiman has written and roomed with Raitz and ...
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  • Inventiveness and musical integrity are evident in Oliver the Crow's debut album / popMATTERS
    Posted At: September 5, 2018 12:00 AM

    Oliver the Crow creates dynamic orchestral music overlapping with rustic back-porch folk. Cellist Kaitlyn Raitz and fiddler Ben Plotnick make up the Nashville-based duo who released their debut self-titled album in June. Recorded in rural Cavendish, Vermont, Oliver the Crow enlisted the support from production team Speaker Face (Trent Freeman and Eric Wright), the Canadian based folk-electronic duo. Oliv...
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  • Oliver the Crow in studio with Nashville Public Radio
    Posted At: September 1, 2018 12:00 AM

    "Within a week of meeting each other, we began mapping musical ideas and plans to record an EP," cellist Kaitlyn Raitz says of her first encounter with fiddler Ben Plotnick, before they even lived in the same city. Their band Oliver the Crow, navigates effortlessly between the gravitas of chamber composition, the longing of folk music, the near dreamlike quality of atmospheric sound art, and above all, p...
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  • Recorded entirely on solar power, 'Oliver the Crow' has a knack for rhythm / exclaim!*@#
    Posted At: June 24, 2018 12:00 AM

    Kaitlyn Raitz and Ben Plotnick may live in Nashville now, but they hail from north of the border, and spent many years honing their chops on this side of it. Accomplished musicians in their own right (Plotnick is a member of Juno Award-winning quartet the Fretless, while Raitz has toured extensively with folk acts such as the Bombadills), their collaboration is a welcome combination of classical techniqu...
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  • Ben Plotnik - Greenland / Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: February 28, 2017 12:00 AM

    Canadian Ben Plotnick tells it like it is as he plays viola and fiddle with a toe tapping team of Andrew Collins/mand, Adrian Gross/g and James McEleney/b through a collection of fun filled originals plus a traditional tune to close out the session. The music is a mix of gypsy swing on one hand, with dashes of Nashville bluegrass on the other, as banjoist Frank Evans gets everyone two stepping on "Ab...
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  • Ben Plotnik - Greenland / The WVIA: Graham Album Review
    Posted At: January 18, 2017 12:00 AM

    What came to be called the New Acoustic scene burgeoned in the 1980s with then-young artists like David Grisman, Tony Rice, and Bela Fleck combined backgrounds in rock, jazz and other styles into the instrumentation of bluegrass. By now, bringing jazz into bluegrass has become a standard feature among many bluegrass groups. So it is not as distinctive as it was, and there are fewer new recordin...
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