Caitlin Belém Romtvedt

Caitlin Belém Romtvedt grew up in a house full of music in northern Wyoming. She fell in love with the fiddle at a young age and started playing, both through private lessons and with her parents. Later, through school, friends, and family, she began to play alto saxophone and guitar. Since then, she has had the incredible good fortune to live, study, and play music in Brazil, Cuba, the Basque Country, Ohio, New York, and Seattle. Caitlin has played with the groups Maracujá, Ospa!, At Five, Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots, Modern Bygones, The Fireants, Arrabita Taldea, and JunTaJo. She has experience teaching music, social dance, Capoeira Angola, and Spanish in university and school settings as well as various music festivals, camps, residencies, and workshops. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of GAIT, the social change research group at the University of the Basque Country. Her research deals with the intersections of music, dance, and language use in the Basque Country.