Interview: 5 questions with Lindsey Stirling
Lindsey Stirling is bringing her North American Duality 2024 tour to Mohegan Sun on Thursday
As one of the most sought-after violinists in the world, Lindsey Stirling has become an influential figure in the music industry. Her unique sound, blending classical music with electronic dance beats, has captivated audiences and earned her millions of fans worldwide. With her energetic performances and innovative sound, Stirling is not just a musician but a visionary artist, bringing her talents and passion to the stage in a way that is truly one-of-a-kind. Stirling is bringing her North American Duality 2024 tour to Mohegan Sun Arena on Thursday, August 15th. Click here to purchase tickets.
Duality
Lindsey Stirling’s latest album, Duality was released on June 14th. Enrich your music experience with empowering and creative tracks like “Eye of the Untold Her”, “Inner Gold” featuring Royal & the Serpent, “Evil Twin”, and “Survive”.
Stream her albums on Apple Music or Spotify
Purchase the vinyl on Amazon • Vinyl.com • Walmart
Redscroll Records in Wallingford has Duailty in stock.
5 Questions with Lindsey Stirling
Tell me where you found your love for playing the violin.
I begged my parents for lessons when I was six years old and you know, I mean, my parents just loved classical music, so they were always playing it in our home and kind of just instilled this desire to play.
What can we expect to see at your Mohegan Sun show?
It’s gonna be a fun show. I’m so excited. I’ve loved this tour. It’s I think it’s the best show I’ve ever done, you know, put together. My whole team has worked so hard. So you’re gonna see a very theatrical performance. Like the costumes are really, really vibrant and fun. The dancers are incredible, the choreography is really top notch and it’s a full active show. Like, you know, there really isn’t a chance to get bored because of all the different props and costumes and dancing and aerial acrobatics that, you know, people are going to see. I go up on aerial apparatuses. And play my violin up in the air. It’s it’s really a fun show.
Do you have a favorite performance to date?
Well, I’m going to be honest this tour is my favorite show that I’ve ever put together. My favorite, like through and through, you know from start to finish. I think the show is just really, really engaging and I’m really proud of it. So this is my favorite show and my favorite like performance I’ve ever done was probably at Lollapalooza Paris. It was just really exciting.
Who are your influences?
They’re all over the place anyone from like John Williams. You know the composer. I think he’s amazing. He’s an instrumental storyteller, which is what I try to be. I loved Skrillex when I first started writing music, which is why a lot of my earlier music is more dubstep leaning because I just love Skrillex. Evanescence inspired me a lot growing up, like just the epic grand music that they made. So yeah, those are some of my some of my top ones.
I was watching your live videos that are on YouTube and you’re hanging upside down, playing the violin is that difficult to train for?
I just like to continuously push the envelope like you know the things that I was doing several years ago, you know, 10 years ago would have been shocked. And so I’m always trying to think of what could I try next? You know what is gonna keep me progressing? I wanna keep learning. I wanna keep growing. I don’t want to get bored and with my craft so I’m always trying to like little push the envelope a little bit and yeah, definitely it is very difficult to. To dance and play the violin, it’s difficult to hang upside down and play the violin and balance, and you know all of that stuff. But you know it’s possible.
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