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Megan Gould: Press

"Megan Weeder is a... luminary who has added her sparkle and sleight-of-hand to a breathtaking array of musical endeavors... All musicians who have worked with Megan can attest to her quickness and agility with creating a part or executing parts exactly. She is a uniquely mellow string player. For someone with such a serene temperament she can play so fetchingly from the heart that for many local musicians no one else will do in the studio or on stage."
Sophia Travis - The Free Press
On Sunday, the 25, Grigoris Maninakis and his "Mikrokosmos" orchestra presented a top-notch performance of Greek music that had people of all backgrounds and ethnicities clapping, dancing, and finally, shedding a tear or two when he sang his heartrending, extraordinarily beautiful rendition of Misirlou. Megan Weeder, who is not of Greek heritage, captured the idiosyncratic mood and emotion of the violin in Greek music perfectly.
Vicki J. Yiannias - Greece: “Explore your Senses'', at the New York Times Travel Show
The band consisted of violin, cello, and drums-bass-guitar, and was incredibly sympathetic. The strings (Megan Weeder and Marika Hughes) played contrapuntal melodies reminiscent of George Martin’s orchestral ragas on late-period Beatles records, stabbed rhythmic tattoos, and—occasionally and to great effect—tracked the complicated melodies in octaves...
Paul Rapp - And This Bird Can Sing
The Barbes website billed them as “probably the best Greek ensemble around,” high praise from a generally reliable source. For once, putting cynicism on hold paid off: Mavrothi Kontanis and his spectacular backup band are the real deal... Megan Gould provided eerie sheets of sound on violin... get to know this amazing band.