Folk: Contra Dance

(See a text list of all Folk: Contra Dance albums.)

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BART SAYLOR AND FRIENDS: Dancin' Fools
Original contra dance music featuring hammer dulcimer, fiddles, and percussion.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MORRISON BROTHERS BAND: 21st Century Hoedown
All-instrumental Virginia dance music; this family band brings superb musicianship to a highly spirited performance of traditional and original fiddle tunes.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
BEESWAX SHEEPSKIN: Beeswax Sheepskin
Adventurous renditions of traditional fiddle tunes from Ireland, Quebec and New England, performed with driving groove, rich harmony and dynamic improvisation.
CD price: $15.00
RODNEY MILLER & ELVIE MILLER: Spyglass: Waltzes
Rodney Miller is widely considered to be the foremost exponent of New England style fiddling. On this album, he joins with his daughter, Elvie Miller on piano and accordion, and as a duo they weave together a selection of beautiful, poignant works.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
HUCKLEBERRY FLINT: Good Night Darling
"Clean, Clear & Strong" - Bob Doran, North Coast Journal Weekly
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
VARIOUS ARTISTS: Face the Creek: a tribute to the Kimmswick Dance Weekends
Smokin' old timey stringband music, recorded live, fueled by the energy of frenzied dancers and performed by some of the Midwest's best dance musicians.
CD price: $12.97
WAKE THE NEIGHBORS: Wake the Neighbors
Traditional folk/World/Celtic
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
THE ROADOILERS: The Roadoilers
Old-time American string band music for dancing and listening. Southern, midwestern and western tunes and songs combine in a traditional sound unique to this band from San Francisco's North Bay Area.
CD price: $15.00
ROUND THE HOUSE: Safe Home
Irish traditional tunes and songs move between lilting, moody, tender and sheer rhythmic drive. Dynamic arrangements with fiddle, mandolin, guitar, bouzouki and bodhran give lift to tunes and texture to songs. Compelling female vocals in English and Irish
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
KAREN ASHBROOK: Knock on the Door
Go straight to the heart of an Irish session with jigs, reels, airs and Breton dances performed by some of the best traditional and Celtic musicians today. including all-Ireland fiddle champion Brendan Mulvihill on fiddle, Grammy-nominated Chris Norman
CD price: $12.97

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SCENIC ROOTS: Dance All Night, Fiddle All Day
Toe-tapping old-time and contra-dance tunes, plus a few ballads featuring fiddle, mountain dulcimer, claw-hammer banjo, guitar, hammered dulcimer, piano, mandolin, and vocals. This CD will take you back in time, when people used to gather on front porches
CD price: $15.00
KATHLEEN AND DOM LAVIN: Step in Time, Volume II
Irish step dancing music
CD price: $12.97
LA FAMILLE LÉGER: Music from Québec and Acadie
Music for dancing, music handed down through generations in the New World, music from the backwoods and kitchen parties of Quebec and New Brunswick.
CD price: $15.00
FLOORPLAY: Block Party
Hot and fun original Contradance tunes in Northern and Southern Raggy Klezmer-like styles.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
BOB MCQUILLEN AND OLD NEW ENGLAND: One:Two
Old New England is Contra at its most joyful and dancer-friendly, propelled by Bob McQuillen's famous "boom chuck" piano style.
CD price: $15.00
BOB MCQUILLEN AND OLD NEW ENGLAND: ONE:III
Old New England is Contra at its most joyful and dancer-friendly, propelled by Bob McQuillen's famous "boom chuck" piano style.
CD price: $15.00
TIDAL WAVE/RAZ-DE-MAREE: Tidal Wave/Raz-de-Maree
Contra music from Quebec, grounded in traditional Quebec rhythms and melodies, but innovative and refreshing. Exciting sound of the northeast dance scene.
CD price: $15.00
RECKLESS RAMBLERS: Lowdown Hoedown
This is contra music at its best, with fiddle, guitar, mandolin and bass interplay recalling the sound of the jazz greats, yet remaining solidly in the contra tradition.
CD price: $15.00
THE MONTVILLE PROJECT: The Montville Project: 53 Essential New England Dance Tunes
Lively traditional New England dance tunes, intended primarily as an audio repertory for neophyte dance musicians, but it’s equally satisfying as a toe-tapping listening experience for anyone who enjoys this wonderful American music and dance form.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE PLEASANT FAMILY OLD TIME STRING BAND: A Pleasant Affair
America's original folk music. The melodies of life when music was made by families featuring the fiddle and banjo. Old timey sounds from the days before bluegrass, tv and radio. A true Old Time String Band.
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $10.99

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THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters With Riley Baugus: Going Home Shoes
Sarah Hawker, winner of Merlefest 2004 songwriting contest & Debra Clifford team up with Riley Baugus of Cold Mountain. Hard hitting acoustic lonesome female duet. strong harmonies & mountain sound. Includes Merlefest prizewinning song "Forgiveness".
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters
Sarah Hawker winner of the 2004 Merlefest songwriting contest and Debra Clifford. Traditional lonesome mountain sounds, with sparse instrumentation and strong, distinctive high female harmonies, clawhammer banjo & fiddle.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE LONESOME SISTERS: The Lonesome Sisters with Rayna Gellert: Follow Me Down
NEW CD JUNE 2006. High lonesome harmonies full of longing, modal, stark acoustic arrangements of guitar, fretless clawhammer banjo, and fiddle, combine to create an early country/modern mountain sound.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ELEVEN NEW ENGLAND CONTRA BANDS: Contra Music: The Sound of New England
Here are cuts from the CDs of ten leading New England Contra Bands, including Rodney Miller, Bob McQuillen, Wild Asparagus, The Moving Violations and others
CD price: $5.00 / MP3 price: $5.00
NIGHTINGALE: The Coming Dawn
Songs and tunes from New England, Quebec, Newfoundland, France, and the British Isles.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
CANTERBURY COUNTRY DANCE ORCHESTRA: Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra
New England Square and Contra Dance music played by one of the area's root bands. A dozen players make this full rich sound. Energetic, invigorating, will keep you awake driving, spur you to clean out your garage, or dance.
CD price: $15.00
EDEN MACADAM-SOMER AND LARRY UNGER: Notorious
Exciting and virtuosic fiddle music and songs from many genres, including Celtic, Old Time, Gypsy, Scandinavian,swing and blues.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
WHEN PIGS FLY!: Pigatude
Steeped-in-tradition jigs, reels and hornpipes from the British Isles and old time American fiddle, rag, bluegrass and waltz tunes.
CD price: $14.95
JODY KRUSKAL: Naked Concertina
The Anglo concertina revealed and unadorned–one man, one concertina, one tune at a time. 21 original old time country dance reels, jigs and waltzes played by a master of the harmonic style.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
JAY MANKITA: The Day The Library Went Wild! ( Wild Songs & Natural Stories)
'Wild' songs and 'natural' stories which foster an optimistic ecological awareness with both serious and humorous treatments, and through a variety of musical styles.
CD price: $12.75

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