{"id":46638,"date":"2023-03-16T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=46638"},"modified":"2023-02-14T13:39:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:39:29","slug":"music-selectors-choice-lindsey-stirling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/music-selectors-choice-lindsey-stirling\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Selector’s Choice: Lindsey Stirling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you see a violin and think “classical music is boring”, then you need to discover more artists like Lindsey Stirling. While she may lose points for technique (according to some other musicians I know) she definitely gets top marks for showmanship, enthusiasm, genre-bending, and creativity. If nothing else, her social media presence showing behind-the-scenes looks at her stunts, rehearsals, concerts, and more is funny, fascinating, entertaining and informative.<\/p>\n

Intrigued? All these Lindsey Stirling albums are available for checkout:<\/p>\n

Lindsey Stirling<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: 2013<\/p>\n

Shatter Me<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: 2014<\/p>\n

Brave Enough<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: 2016<\/p>\n

Warmer in the Winter<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: 2018<\/p>\n

Artemis<\/strong><\/em><\/a>: 2019<\/p>\n

Snow Waltz<\/strong><\/em><\/a> : 2022<\/p>\n

Looking for more unconventional players of classical and string instruments? Try the four-cello rock group Apocalyptica,<\/strong><\/a> rock violinist David Garrett<\/strong><\/a>, or creative instrumentalists The Piano Guys<\/strong><\/a> (though if you haven’t yet checked out this powerhouse group, what are you waiting for??)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you see a violin and think “classical music is boring”, then you need to discover more artists like Lindsey Stirling. While she may lose points for technique (according to some other musicians I know) she definitely gets top marks for showmanship, enthusiasm, genre-bending, and creativity. If nothing else, her[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,5,1,8],"tags":[2307,3253,4353,2844,6301],"class_list":["post-46638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-read-a-likes","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-classical-music","tag-music","tag-music-cd","tag-music-cds","tag-violins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-c8e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46638"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46898,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46638\/revisions\/46898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}