1. Donna Shea, better known as Scarlet Rivera is an American violinist.
18 Facts About Scarlet Rivera
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Scarlet Rivera is best known for her work with Bob Dylan, in particular on his 1976 album Desire and as part of the Rolling Thunder Revue.
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Dylan stopped to converse with Scarlet Rivera and invited her to his rehearsal studio where she spent the afternoon playing along with several of his new songs.
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Scarlet Rivera played an important role in Dylan's studio album Desire.
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In 1977, Scarlet Rivera released her self-titled debut LP for Warner Bros.
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Lindsay Planer from AllMusic praised the album, saying that Scarlet Rivera "has consistently found specific and viable places for the violin in rock".
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Scarlet Rivera has recorded multiple albums as a composer in numerous styles, instrumental, new-age, Celtic and world music.
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Scarlet Rivera has performed in the US, Europe and Japan with her Celtic group.
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Scarlet Rivera was a soloist with the Duke Ellington Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Carnival of Venice.
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In recent years Scarlet Rivera has recorded new age, instrumental, world, and Celtic music.
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Scarlet Rivera has toured in Japan with the US-based South American group Ritual with Uruguayans Federico Ramos and Eduardo Marquez del Signore.
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Scarlet Rivera recorded the album Celtic Mist which was released in Japan.
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Scarlet Rivera played violin on the 2014 album After the Fall, by UK-based Dodson and Fogg.
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Scarlet Rivera was a special guest artist in the band in Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration, a birthday concert held in honor of Joni Mitchell on November 7,2018, in Los Angeles and in the concert with Brandi Carlile for Mitchell's Blue album in October 2019.
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Scarlet Rivera was featured in Martin Scorsese's 2019 pseudo-documentary film Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story and attended the premiere in New York in June 2019.
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Scarlet Rivera released the EP All of Me in April 2020 on Bright Sun Records, singing her own songs.
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Scarlet Rivera continues to be an active recording artist, performer and composer, and is currently working on an album Celtic Magic to be released later in 2022.
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Scarlet Rivera was married in 1991 to the British session keyboardist Tommy Eyre.