Ari and Mia Friedman

Ari (21) and Mia (16) are twin members of the hot, up-and-coming fiddle/folk band formerly called Lady and the Pants; their band is now going by their real names, Ari and Mia Friedman. Ari is in her third year at Northwestern studying cello performance, but she is mostly a folk musician, and aside from gigging with Mia, she also performs with Hanneke Cassel and teaches at various fiddle camps. She also plays clawhammer banjo. Mia got into fiddling way before Ari even knew that the classical box she was stuck in had secret passageways out. Mia is a talented young fiddler (and a budding mandolin and guitar player) and hails from high school in Newton, Massachusetts. She studies with Hanneke Cassel during the year and has worked with Alasdair Fraser and Natalie MacMaster (to name a few) over the course of many summers at fiddle camps. She also plays with 5am which is a group of five rocking fiddlers. Ari and Mia perform mostly originals and traditionals and their first CD, titled Lady and the Pants (just to confuse everyone), has just been released!! You can find copies on our website or on CDbaby, iTunes or digstation. P.S. You may or may not have guessed that, although we do on ocassion wear matching outfits, we are not actually twins. Also, we have a third and older sister who is equally as cool and is called Mysterious Woman of the Woods.This profile was edited with Edit Your MySpace