Olivia Breidenthal
Olivia Breidenthal is a Los Angeles-based fiddle player. She discovered her love of folk music by way of Celtic sessions while she was studying violin performance in Chicago. Four years later, she currently performs with two bands: The Arroyo Seco String Band and Reaver Ship. The former performs regularly at contra dances and the latter performs at bars and various other events. Both bands are inspired by Celtic, American and contemporary folk music. When she is not scraping on the ol’ fiddle, Olivia teaches music at a K-8 school in Downtown Los Angeles. She has studied violin for twenty years and plans to play for at least a few decades more.