Shadowfax (band)

Shadowfax was a new age/electronic musical group formed in Chicago in the early 1970s and best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village. In 1989 they won the Grammy for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village.^[1] In 1993, they were nominated for the Grammy for Esperanto.

The group formed in 1972^[2] and disbanded after 1995 when Lyricon player and leader Chuck Greenberg died of a heart attack. Having lost their signature sound, Shadowfax's members went on to other projects.

The group takes its name from Gandalf the Grey's horse Shadowfax in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

Members

• Chuck Greenberg – Lyricon, saxophones, flutes
• Phil Maggini – basses, vocals
• Stuart Nevitt – drums, percussion
• G. E. Stinson – guitars
• Armen Chakmakian – keyboards
• Charlie Bisharat – electric violins
• David Lewis – keyboards

Additional musicians

• Ramon Yslas – percussion
• Andy Abad – guitars
• Doug Maluchnik – keyboards
• Jared Stewart – keyboards
• Jamii Szmadzinski - electric violin ^[3]
• Jerry Goodman – violin

Discography

• 1976 - Watercourse Way (re-mixed and partially re-recorded 1985)
• 1982 - Shadowfax
• 1983 - Shadowdance
• 1984 - The Dreams of Children
• 1986 - Too Far To Whisper
• 1988 - Folksongs for a Nuclear Village
• 1990 - The Odd Get Even
• 1992 - Esperanto
• 1994 - Magic Theater
• 1995 - Live

References

• Greenberg, Joy (2006) "A Pause in the Rain" ISBN 1-60145-018-4
• Larkin, Colin (1995) "The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music" ISBN 1-56159-176-9
• Yurochko, Bob (1993) "A Short History of Jazz" ISBN 0-8304-1595-5

Footnotes

External links

• Chuck Greenberg Official Site http://www.chuckgreenberg.com/ Maintained by his widow Joy Horner Greenberg
• Shadowfax discography at MusicBrainz
• Shadowfax at AllMusic
• Armen Chakmakian and Armen Blog Official website and blog for Armen Chakmakian, Shadowfax keyboardist.
• Grammy.com