Hammered dulcimer recommendations?
Prentiss Riddle
getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
are some of their best albums? If possible, I'm looking for
contemporary singer-songwriters who use the instrument as well as
traditionalists -- the ideal would be sort of a "Bryan Bowers of the
hammered dulcimer."
Feel free to answer by email or by following up to rec.music.folk if
you think others would be interested in your recommendations.
-- Prentiss Riddle ("aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada") rid...@rice.edu
-- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer.
Randy Marchany
>My mother is fascinated by the hammered dulcimer and I am thinking of
>getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
>some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
>are some of their best albums? If possible, I'm looking for
>contemporary singer-songwriters who use the instrument as well as
>traditionalists -- the ideal would be sort of a "Bryan Bowers of the
>hammered dulcimer."
>
>Feel free to answer by email or by following up to rec.music.folk if
be Maddie MacNeil. She has a varety of discs out under the Turquoise
Label (606-633-0485). Try "Heart's Ease" or "A Place Apart". She
has a wonderfull voice and does stuff with the hammered and mountain
dulcimer.
Anything by John McCutcheon (Appalseed Productions, 804-977-6321),
"Winter Solstice" would be his definitive Xmas record.
Malcolm Dalglish has a new one out called "Hymnody of Earth". It's
not a Xmas record per se but it features Malcolm on the HD with
the American Boychoir. Different but nice.
Joemy Wilson (Dargason Music out of LA) has a whole series of Xmas
records. I don't have her number handy here but you can find her
stuff in just about any good folk music store.
Lee Spears from NC has a series of discs out called "Angels We
have heard on high, Vol, 1,2,3". Very nicely done, Lee has a really
nice style on the dulcimer.
I can't think of any other Xmas recordings out there but there are
a number of players who have some nice recordings. Some of them are:
Sam Rizzetta, Walt Michael, Robin Petrie, Helicon, Cathy Barton and
Dave Para, Carrie Crompton, No Strings Attached, Jem Moore and Ariane
Lydon, Nick Blanton, Bill Spence, Dave Neiman, Bonnie Carol, Doug Berch,
Dan Duggan, Mitzie Collins, Larry Hall, Jim Taylor, Jim Hampton,
David James, David Moran, Dana Hamilton, Sara Johnson and others.
Basically, you can pick from a wide variety of styles from traditional
to jazz and beyond. Good Luck.
-Randy Marchany
j...@abacus.harvard.edu
>getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
>some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
>are some of their best albums? If possible, I'm looking for
>contemporary singer-songwriters who use the instrument as well as
>traditionalists -- the ideal would be sort of a "Bryan Bowers of the
>hammered dulcimer."
>
I have a personal boycott of Bowers ever since he wrote that "I could no
more sleep with only one woman than I could eat only one apple" song
a while back, so I'd be loathe to mention anyone/group I like in the same
paragraph, but my favorite hammered dulcimer people are:
Anything by Malcolm Dalgliesh, Grey Larsen & Pete Sutherland
(only one of them is the dulcimer player; I think its Dalgliesh, spelling
almost certainly incorrect)
The material leans heavily toward the contemporary without ever being
single-note new-ageish and is all perfectly gorgeous.
Anything by Fennig's All-Star String Band.
The group name is a goof on something never explained to me; there is no
Mr/Ms Fennig in the band.
the dulcimer player is, I believe, Bill Spence, & the label is/was
Front Hall records.
One album is entitled "Saturday Night in the Provinces"; I own that &
another & should really get you the info off the albums & repost.
They are, for my money, the best there is for hammered dulcimer playing
on traditional country-dance tunes.
Fennig's All-Stars was my introduction to the hammered dulcimer, on a
live-at-Passim's radio show when I moved to the area 20 years ago;
I thought I was hearing angel feet dancing on wires.
Spence & Co are from upstate NY, which is also the home of Paul Van Arsdale
(spelling?), who is considered to be the grand old man of country-dance
hammered dulcimer playing but is horrendously clunky. He's supposed to be
a big influence on & probably a teacher of Spence, but there's no comparison;
Spence flies where Van Arsdale clobbers.
Randy Marchany
>
>Spence & Co are from upstate NY, which is also the home of Paul Van Arsdale
>(spelling?), who is considered to be the grand old man of country-dance
>hammered dulcimer playing but is horrendously clunky. He's supposed to be
>a big influence on & probably a teacher of Spence, but there's no comparison;
>Spence flies where Van Arsdale clobbers.
>
someone calling Paul Van Arsdale a "clunky HD player". ;-). I think if
you listen closely to all of the contemporary masters" of the HD, you'll
definitely hear Paul's influence in their playing. In fact, I'd be
willing to bet that ol' Bill Spence himself would say the same thing.
Having had many oppotunities to play with most of these guys, I'd have
to say that not one of them would classify Paul as a "clunky" player.
Although Bill's records formed the basis of what I call the "hammer dulcimer top
40" list of songs that almost every dulcimer player knows by heart and
Malcolm and Grey's "Banish Misfortune" album is the top selling HD album
in the past 20 years, listen carefully and you'll hear playing tricks
that Paul came up with over the years and taught to them. A clunky
player can only teach another player how to be clunky.
If you ever heard Paul playing live( ah, memories of the Solstice
concert in DC in 1985), I'd be willing to bet that you'd
find your toes doing a little tap dance to the music. :-).
If Van Arsdale clobbers, the rest of the HD players must be playing with
frying pans instead of hammers.....
Hoping this was taken in a lighthearted manner,
Randy Marchany
allen h. lutins
dulcimer/harp duo; a *beautiful* combination)...also, there's a duo
now doing the east coast folk circuit named "Passages"; they
incorporate harp, guitar, hammered dulcimer, flutes/ocarinas,
etc...just saw them the other day (his name's `Jem' something; can't
remember hers); they were *wonderful*...
--
***************************************************************************
"There is nothing either good or bad, | allen h. lutins
but thinking makes it so." | VU0...@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
Shakespeare (Hamlet II:2) | VY8...@Bingvaxa.bitnet
patrick.b.hailey
I will, watch:
"No Strings Attached"
There's 4 or 5 guys in the band, and 2 of them play HDs. They do a real
eclectic mix, from jazz to blues to folk. They do a version of "Summertime",
with 2 HDs, that I just love. I saw them live once, and they are great!
I have one tape by them, and they have 1 or 2 more available. I'd post
the name of the company, but the tape's out on loan. Would someone else
be so kind?
Thanks awfully,
Patrick
Toby Koosman
writes...
>Spence & Co are from upstate NY, which is also the home of Paul Van Arsdale
>(spelling?), who is considered to be the grand old man of country-dance
>hammered dulcimer playing but is horrendously clunky. He's supposed to be
>a big influence on & probably a teacher of Spence, but there's no comparison;
>Spence flies where Van Arsdale clobbers.
who has been an inspiration because of his knowledge and representation of
a folk style that barely survives in the Eastern mountains. It does him no
justice to compare his playing to the more complicated, bluegrass-influenced
music-for-people-with-short-attention-spans of players like Spence.
Somebody I know said of Van Arsdale, "he doesn't play as many notes as the
younger players, but all the notes he plays are the right ones."
Toby Koosman
University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Internet: KOO...@UTKVX1.UTCC.UTK.EDU Bitnet: KOOSMAN@UTKVX
Scott Dickson
traditional hymns. Any hints as to where I might find some?
--SCott Dickson
Jack Campin
> My mother is fascinated by the hammered dulcimer and I am thinking of
> getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
> some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
> are some of their best albums?
"Masters", grrr... the world's most virtuosic hammered dulcimer player is
a woman, Marta Fabian, who plays the Hungarian cimbalom. She has a wide
repertoire, from works written for her by avant-garde composers like Gyorgy
Kurtag to arrangements of Bach (try the French Suites on Hungaroton; she
claims that Bach would have intended these for the cimbalom if he'd known
about it, which is an interesting twist on the Bach-on-the-piano theme).
Another Hungarian to look out for is Attila Bozay, who writes his own music
for a modified cimbalom of his own design. I don't know where you'd find
recordings of his stuff, though.
--
-- Jack Campin Computing Science Department, Glasgow University, 17 Lilybank
Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland 041 339 8855 x6854 work 041 556 1878 home
JANET: ja...@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk BANG!net: via mcsun and ukc FAX: 041 330 4913
INTERNET: via nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: via UKACRL UUCP: ja...@glasgow.uucp
Jim_Blue_x3809
who do classical music. There are many who play folk music and some who do
New Age. If you want some suggestions, I could list some of my favorites.
In Indian classical music, there is one virtuoso, Shivkumar Sharma. He has
several CD's available; if you want numbers, I can look them up at home.
The fox so cunning and free
} My mother is fascinated by the hammered dulcimer and I am thinking of
} getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
} some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
} are some of their best albums? If possible, I'm looking for contemporary
} singer-songwriters who use the instrument as well as traditionalists --
} the ideal would be sort of a "Bryan Bowers of the hammered dulcimer."
Well, Joemy Wilson sort of fits both bills, though she doesn't write her own
material that I'm aware of. She has a couple of albums of Turlough O'Carolan
harp tunes that she adapted for hammered dulcimer, and one album of Beatles
music.
Also try the albums by Danny Carnhan and Robin Petrie. Robin is an
excellent hammered dulcimer player, and they play both traditional tunes
and those of their own composition.
--
"My father was a tattoo artist in Haiphong.
His designs on mother didn't last too long."
--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, "The Mill", Maynard, MA)
boyajian%ruby...@DECWRL.DEC.COM or ...!decwrl!ruby.enet.dec.com!boyajian
Ellen Mitsue Eades
Randy Marchany (who's already posted his reply to Prentiss' original
article) is *in* No Strings Attached. But to answer your question, they
record on Turquoise Records, HC-84, Box 1358, Whitesburg, KY 41858.
They also produced Maddie MacNeil's two records, "Heart's Ease" and
"A Place Apart." "Heart's Ease" won the Best Independent Music award
for 1990, if I recall correctly (other recent winners include Relativity,
for their second album, "Gathering Pace").
To the person who asked about the group Passages, they are now recording
under their actual names, Jem Moore and Ariane Lydon. They have two
records out, "April Fools' Waltz" and a new one which escapes my memory.
To Prentiss, who asked specifically about singer-songwriters who use
hammer dulcimer in their recordings, I want to recommend the Whammadiddle
Dingbats -- Mick Doherty and Lawrence Huntley on h.d., Kevin Johnson on
guitar -- who combine instrumentals with vocals on their latest album,
"Lucky!". Songs include Greg Brown's "Who Woulda Thunk It" and Dillon
Bustin's "Moonshine in the White Pines," as well as Johnson's originals,
"Metal Detector" and "Out on the Highway." In concert, they do *mean*
versions of Los Lobos' "One Time One Night" and "Harriet Tubman". The
address ($10 cass, $15 CD) is Mick Doherty, P.O. Box 18181, Portland OR
97218. Tell him I said hi; he taught me to play.
You will probably also enjoy Danny Carnahan's album, "Journeys of the
Heart," which features the unique hammered dulcimer style of his wife,
Robin Petrie. This record is very Celtic-influenced, with Danny on
guitar, mandola and fiddle; both sing.
The Malcolm Dalglish/Grey Larsen/Pete Sutherland trio can be found on
several recordings: "Banish Misfortune" (without Sutherland) is almost
entirely instrumental, as is "Thunderhead" (which is also a duo and
features Kevin Burke on the title track). "First of Autumn" and "Metamora"
include Sutherland's guitar and fiddle to the mix, and there is a lot of
wonderful singing on these two albums. Dalglish has a solo effort out
on Windham Hill also, "Jogging the Memory": more instrumentals.
John McCutcheon is probably the strongest songwriter who is currently
playing dulcimer; he's also probably the best-known dulcimer player in
the United States. My favorite recording of his in the songwriter vein
is called "Gonna Rise Again." The recordings which have the most
dulcimer on them are "Step by Step" and "Barefoot Boy with Boots On."
There are plenty of other recordings out there! Best of luck,
Ellen Eades
--
Ellen Eades Excel User Education, Microsoft Corp.
"Just call me F.G.M. I hate excess verbiage." _Twice Upon a Time_
Ellen Mitsue Eades
Turquoise Records, produced Maddie MacNeil's albums. Poor writing
on my part. I *meant* to say that Maddie MacNeil was also recording
with Turquoise Records and her albums could be ordered from them. Bleah!
Bill Richard
> getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
> some of the major masters of the hammered dulcimer out there, and what
> are some of their best albums?
>
and Tom Fellenbaum??? They run an instument making business in N.C.
called "Song of the Wood". Theyalso play with John McCutcheonson
(spelling horribly botched, I'm sure!)
I understand they have a second album out now, too. I haven't heard
it yet, but a friend of mine says it's wonderful.
Bob Conrad used to play their stuff on "WCLV Sautrday Night" in
Cleveland before that show changed its format to some jazz - like
stuff. People in boston may have heard exchange segments with Richard
Kay's program on WCRB.
Hope It Helps!
-Bill
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bill Richard // Internet: bric...@commodore.com
// Make Up UUCP: {uunet!rutgers}!cbmvax!brichard
C= H/W Engr. \\ // Your GEnie: W.RICHARD3
Amiga CDTV \X/ Own Mind! 215.344.3875
Don Nichols (DoN.)
>In article <1991Nov2.2...@rice.edu> rid...@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>>My mother is fascinated by the hammered dulcimer and I am thinking of
>>getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
[ ... ]
>Sam Rizzetta, Walt Michael, Robin Petrie, Helicon, Cathy Barton and
^^^^^^^^^^^^
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the band of which Sam
Rizzetta is a founding (though not current) member - Trapezoid. It was
originally a group of four players of the four-sided instrument, therefore
the name. There has been a large turnover of personnel through the years,
and I think that only one current member plays HD, but the early recordings
should have a reasonable amount of HD music.
My wife just pointed out that the early records are long out of
print. Sorry.
--
Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 (Eves): (703) 938-4564
D&D Data | Email: <dnic...@ceilidh.beartrack.com>
I said it - no one else | <dnic...@ceilidh.aes.com>
--- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---
Randy Marchany
>In a similar vein, my aunt wants hammered dulcimer recordings of
>traditional hymns. Any hints as to where I might find some?
>
The one that comes to mind right away is Russell Cook from Texas. He's
got a number of albums out and at least two of them concentrate on
traditional church hymns. I think Mitzie Collins has a "Hymn" recording
out but it may be in the Xmas vein.
Someone told me that a player by the name of Kendra Ward from OH or MI
has a nice recording of hymns but I don't know first hand. Check the
Dulcimer PLayers News for ads or folk stores like the House of Musical
Traditions (301-270-9090) in Takoma Park, MD.
-Randy Marchany
David H. West
>more sleep with only one woman than I could eat only one apple" song
The word he used in the recording (and performances) I heard was "love".
Of course, I don't know what he sang elsewhere or more recently.
--
David West d...@iti.org
------------------------------------------
This message uses 100% recycled electrons.
David H. West
>The group name is a goof on something never explained to me; there is no
>Mr/Ms Fennig in the band.
If you look at the small print on some of the albums, it says
"Recorded at the Eldron Fennig Folk Museum of American Ephemera".
This is almost certainly a figment of Bill Spence's warped imagination.
Ellen Mitsue Eades
>I don't know of any western hammered dulcimer players (besides Hungarians)
>who do classical music.
I do!! Check out Carole Koenig. She has three albums out to date, one
each spanning medieval, Renaissance, and baroque music. She plays with
a consort of period instruments -- viols, harpsichord, recorders -- and
does a phenomenal job of adapting classical music to a non-classical
instrument (the hammered dulcimer, unlike the hackbrett or cimbalom, its
European relatives, is NOT set up to play classical music, believe me).
j...@abacus.harvard.edu
>In article <22...@endor.das.harvard.edu.harvard.edu> j...@abacus.harvard.edu writes:
>>I have a personal boycott of Bowers ever since he wrote that "I could no
>>more sleep with only one woman than I could eat only one apple" song
> ^^^^^
>
>The word he used in the recording (and performances) I heard was "love".
>Of course, I don't know what he sang elsewhere or more recently.
>
Yeah, OK, but then he goes on to catalog all his conquests, as I remember
addressed to the justifiably perturbed current "girlfriend".
I don't believe he was singing about platonic love, here.
Another guy I thought was being obnoxious, in the old time-honored spirit
of randy chauvinism, was John Hartford, with "Gentle on my Mind"
("another woman's crying to her mother 'cause she turned & I was gone
but blah blah blah
YOU'RE still gentle on my mind" !!)
The song that takes the cake is Gordon Lightfoot's "I'm Not Saying"
("I may not be alone each time you see me
---blah blah blah
but baby I'll not leave you or mistreat you
baby if you let me have my way")
The reason I can still listen to Hartford & Lightfoot is that their
songs are at least a little tongue-in-cheek; Lightfoot's works perfectly
well with all the pronouns reversed, but it sounds, if anything, even
more ridiculous, although I think that's societal more^s speaking.
Bowers, on the other hand, really means every word, & is proud of it.
Its just a catalog of "women who have turned Bowers on", & apparently
even your 900-year-old-grandma isn't safe from his attentions.
Prentiss Riddle
>
> "Masters", grrr... the world's most virtuosic hammered dulcimer player is
> a woman, Marta Fabian, who plays the Hungarian cimbalom.
Well, if we're going further afield than British-American folk hammered
dulcimer (which was what I was after when I started this thread), then
you'd have to include all the players of the santur (aka santoor),
working in various musical traditions from the Middle East through
India. I'm particularly enamoured of the classical Indian santoor
players, who like bluesy piano players manage to create the illusion of
bent notes on an instrument with a fixed (at least fixed during the
course of one piece) tuning.
Derek Gross
>you'd have to include all the players of the santur (aka santoor),
>working in various musical traditions from the Middle East through
>India. I'm particularly enamoured of the classical Indian santoor
>players, who like bluesy piano players manage to create the illusion of
>bent notes on an instrument with a fixed (at least fixed during the
>course of one piece) tuning.
the use of the santoor in classical Indian music is actually very recent.
Shivkumar Sharma described it (at an excellent concert here a couple of weeks
ago) as a Persian folk instrument which was introduced into Indian music by
his father, if I remember correctly (which may not be the case).
(Anybody see the contradiction in this posting?)
--
Derek Gross "... Beans. Baked beans. Quality. ..."
de...@psych.rochester.edu - Bob Dylan
Jim_Blue_x3809
santoor or santur. Though I know little about Indian classical music, I
have and enjoy these three:
Nimbus 5110 (71:06)
Oriental CD 122 (45:17)
Chhanda Dhara SP 83088 (59:40)
All have Sharma on santoor/santur, someone on tabla, and someone on tamboura/tambura.
Karla Shapiro
and _Early Works_ by David Nieman. Dave is a Cambridge street musician
and his first work _Spectrum_ has a variety of traditional music from
around the world on it (and a guest appearance from the Mandala Folk
Dance Ensemble Orchestra). _Early Works_ contains classical music
selections that Dave is so fond of playing.
Another favorite of mine is Jim Cousa. He has an album of jazz stuff
out (I think it's called _Take Five_ after the Dave Brubek tune) and
is on _Thoughts From Another World_ by Johnny Cunningham. Jim was
the first hammered dulcimer player I ever heard and was what eventually
inspired me to buy one.
Matt Kirby from the Kansas City area is another one inspired to learn
how to play dulcimer after seeing Jim perform. I know more about the
instruments he builds. I know he had an Irish band a few years back
and was sent a copy of their demo tape, I don't know if he's recorded
beyond that. I was impressed with him then, I'm sure that his playing
would blow me away now knowing Matt the way I do.
The dulcimer is used in all sorts of Eastern European music as well as
traditional American. In Greece, it is called the Santori. In Hungary
(and some other countries), it is called the Tsimbalin. There are
some NY klezmer bands (Eastern European Jewish music) that make use of
the dulcimer. I think Andy Statman's band is one of them... I'd have
to go through my collection at home to see.
If you're ever in the Philly area, Janni Rousso is a *wonderful* Santori
player. I don't think he's really recorded (except for maybe some
obscure Balkan band type record). I do know that he used to play a lot
with friends. He is also a wonderful Bazouki player.
The Chinese have a small version of the hammered dulcimer that is used
in traditional Chinese music. I don't know what it's called or of
any good recordings (I'm sure someone on the net does though). It is
smaller than the American Dulcimer (which is smaller than the Eastern
European versions).
For traditional New England style dulcimer, I know that a record company
in Rhode Island produces some *very* talented local players. I think
the company's name is North Star records. They have a couple of Holiday
albums called _New England Christmastide_ that are great listening. They
have a catalog of artists available... I'll see if I can find an old
catalog or listing on them.
*phew* All this off the top of my head. I never realized how *much* of
an impact Jim made on me that night at Tryworks Coffee House made on me
15 years ago until just now. Only goes to show you that the hammered
dulcimer just ain't for contradance music anymore. :)
karla
my opinions... don't go blaming others for them.
Nur Iskandar Taib
>Cleveland before that show changed its format to some jazz - like
>stuff. People in boston may have heard exchange segments with Richard
>Kay's program on WCRB.
Wow! Another person who listens (or used to) to Weekend
Radio from Cleveland! I agree.. I like the old format
better.. he used to play a lot of folk music in between
the radio skits. Now he plays those Telarc classical CDs
almost exclusively.. argh!
Nowhere else could you hear Ann Mortifee (my favorite
female vocalist). The closing piece used to be "Fuga-
city" by Mr. and Mrs. Garvey. Then he switched to play-
ing ethereal airs and vocals (eg. Ann Mortifee's Bap-
tism, and a pair (forget who) who did a song with that
had the lines:
I remember all these things
But mostly I remember loving you
) to close.
Those who listen to this show might recognize my .sig 8-)
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Iskandar Taib | The only thing worse than Peach ala
Internet: NT...@SILVER.UCS.INDIANA.EDU | Frog is Frog ala Peach
Bitnet: NTAIB@IUBACS !
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nur Iskandar Taib
>>The group name is a goof on something never explained to me; there is no
>>Mr/Ms Fennig in the band.
>If you look at the small print on some of the albums, it says
>"Recorded at the Eldron Fennig Folk Museum of American Ephemera".
>This is almost certainly a figment of Bill Spence's warped imagination.
Oh.. so thats where the name Fenig comes from...
Sometime last year I had the opportunity to attend a concert by
a local Hammered Ducimerist (heh!) from Columbus, IN. She played
a Fenig tune. I thought it sounded like something you'd play on
piano... very rag-like. That was one of the most enjoyable con-
certs I've been to.. there were three on stage and three in the
audience! We had lots of opportunity to ask questions.
Her dulcimer was somewhat unusual... her husband had built it
out of a crate from work. It was pine with a maple soundboard.
In comparison to Malcolm Dougliesh's dulcimer (I got to hear him
live too.. at a local bookstore! He's from around here) it had
a deeper, less metallic voice, more piano than wire strung harp.
The different hammers made different sounds too.. she had a
set of felt covered hammers that sounded most pianolike.
Amanda Walker
Wow! Another person who listens (or used to) to Weekend
Radio from Cleveland! I agree.. I like the old format
better..
And even "Weekend Radio" was a watered-down digest of the Real(tm)
WCLV Saturday Night: 3 hours (10PM-1AM) of wonderful music & comedy.
This is where I first ran across such things as:
Dalglish & Larsen
Anne Mortifee
The BBC Goon Shows
I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
Around the Horne
Steve Goodman
Great Square Inches In Art
The Pixie School Of Brain Surgery
This Week In The Media
The Beethoven commercial
PDQ Bach
Gerard Hoffnung's "The Bricklayer's Story"
The Mastersingers
The musical CATS (long before it was performed in the States)
Rutabags
And so on. It was a part of my childhood and college experience, and
I was chagrined (no pun intended, you other northern Ohioans :)) to
hear that Bob Conrad had finally stopped doing it.
Sigh. Gloom. WCRB in Boston did a similar show (hosted by Robert Kaye)
which did exchange segments with WCLV, but I don't know if it's still
being done either.
Here in DC, I've found a very nice folk music program on Saturday
nights, but it's still not at all the same...
Amanda Walker ama...@visix.com
Visix Software Inc. ...!uunet!visix!amanda
--
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
---Shakespeare, HENRY VI PART II, Act IV, Scene ii
David Post
and Fellenbaum. It has some of their own music as well as others including
a nice one ofJesu,Joy of Man's Desiring.
I first heard of them on some public radio station. I had to send to them
to get an album, though.
Song of the Wood 1 (704) 669-7675
203 West State Street
Black Mountain, North Carolina
28711
David Post da...@hpfcpp.fc.hp.com hplabs!hpfcla!post
Paul J. Wagner
>I would like to second the recommendation for The Strayaway Child by Smith
I agree. These guys really deserve a wider audience than they have. Their
second album, Heartdance, is also excellent - the title track to me is worth
the price of the whole package.
Paul
--
* Paul J. Wagner School - wag...@cs.umn.edu *
* Computer Science Department Work - pwa...@uwstout.edu *
* University of Minnesota -or- 120 S. Michigan, Eau Claire, WI 54703 *
* * * * * Reboot the system * * * * *
Bill Richard
>> Bob Conrad used to play their stuff on "WCLV Sautrday Night" in
>>Cleveland before that show changed its format to some jazz - like
>>stuff. People in boston may have heard exchange segments with Richard
>>Kay's program on WCRB.
>
>Wow! Another person who listens (or used to) to Weekend
>Radio from Cleveland! I agree.. I like the old format
>better.. he used to play a lot of folk music in between
>the radio skits. Now he plays those Telarc classical CDs
>almost exclusively.. argh!
>
a LOT of things he played on that show that you just couldn't hear anywhere
else in the area. Some even common things like Spike Jones... In this day
of pop and classic rock stations or npr and classical stations almost no
one plays things off the beaten path. I've really come to appreciate
college radio stations lately. Too bad they don't have enough oomph to
really get out there.
Jacob R. Deglopper
In a previous article, nt...@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) says:
>Nowhere else could you hear Ann Mortifee (my favorite
>female vocalist). The closing piece used to be "Fuga-
>city" by Mr. and Mrs. Garvey. Then he switched to play-
>ing ethereal airs and vocals (eg. Ann Mortifee's Bap-
>tism, and a pair (forget who) who did a song with that
>had the lines:
>
>I remember all these things
>But mostly I remember loving you
>
>) to close.
That's Priscilla Herdman and someone whose name escapes my memory. The
name of the song is indeed "I Remember Loving You" on her _Darkness
Into Light_. I suppose I could get the words if you're interested.
--
_/acob DeGlopper, EMT-A, Wheaton Volunteer Rescue Squad
jr...@po.cwru.edu -- Biomedical Engineering '95, Case Western Reserve
Opinions my own...
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit." -- Virgil
Thomas H Dunning
>In article <27...@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> marc...@vtserf.cc.vt.edu (Randy Marchany) writes:
>>In article <1991Nov2.2...@rice.edu> rid...@is.rice.edu (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>>>My mother is fascinated by the hammered dulcimer and I am thinking of
>>>getting her some hammered dulcimer recordings for Christmas. Who are
>
> [ ... ]
>
>>Sam Rizzetta, Walt Michael, Robin Petrie, Helicon, Cathy Barton and
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the band of which Sam
>Rizzetta is a founding (though not current) member - Trapezoid. It was
>originally a group of four players of the four-sided instrument, therefore
>the name. There has been a large turnover of personnel through the years,
>and I think that only one current member plays HD, but the early recordings
>should have a reasonable amount of HD music.
>
> My wife just pointed out that the early records are long out of
>print. Sorry.
>--
I just booked Trapezoid here at SUNYAB last semester. They had copies of *all*
of thier albums for sale. I've also seen some of the early albums in larger
retail record stores. Their first album (self-titled) was on a small
independant label (Traditional, I think) and should, consequently, be next to
impossible to obtain. I got my copy at record collectors' fair a couple years
back. The remainder of thier catalog shouldn't be too hard to get though.
happy hunting
td