Folk: Contra Dance and Type: Instrumental
BART SAYLOR AND FRIENDS: Dancin' Fools
Original contra dance music featuring hammer dulcimer, fiddles, and percussion.
Recommended if you like Strings, Maggie Sansone.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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
WAKE THE NEIGHBORS: Wake the Neighbors
Traditional folk/World/Celtic
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
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
THREE BEAN SALAD: Acoustic Potluck
Instrumental Kansas Acoustic Music. Original tunes written by Mike and Dayle Black as well as some great New England and Contra Dance tunes.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ERIC SCHLORFF, MIKE SCHWAY, & CLYDE CURLEY: l'Orage: the Storm
Super cheerful in the French Canadian (Quebecois) tradition of driving foot-percussion and sweet melodies, with just a touch of the dark Irish for balance. Smooth harmonica, fantastic fiddle licks match and harmonize.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DOT DOT DASH: Dot Dot Dash
Acoustic music in Celtic, Appalachian, ethnic, contra dance and gypsy jazz stylings.
CD price: $9.99
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
FOOTLOOSE: Trip to the Moon
FolkWorld Soup: Unique blend of Irish, World, Brazilian, Old Time, & Swing for Contra Dances, Music Meals and Party Favors.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ELVIE MILLER AND NAOMI MORSE: Grapevine
An eclectic blend of Irish, French Canadian and contemporary tunes that will perk up your ears and make you want to dance.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
GYPSY MELTDOWN: Unleashed
Gypsy Meltdown weaves together old and new melodies from New England, Appalachia, and the British Isles with rhythm, groove and attitude.
Recommended if you like Liz Carroll.CD price: $12.00
PAUL GITLITZ: To Have And To Hold
Dance through your day with exciting new Fiddle Music. Celtic, Afro, Bossa, Mariachi, Old Timey, Swing, Contra and other music styles. Featuring a host of Vancouver's top players on a variety of instruments.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ETHAN HAZZARD-WATKINS: In the Window
Driving fiddle tunes, compelling trad-fusion piano and guitar backup, luscious harmony, Irish dixieland chamber music arrangements; "In the Window" is a flirtatious musical journey blending varied acoustic traditional styles.
CD price: $15.00
THE MOVING VIOLATIONS: Quick Spin
Driving double fiddle harmonies, strong rhythm, and spontaneity prevail. Original compositions as well as traditional Celtic, Eastern European, Swedish, Klezmer, and Classical are all fair game for The Moving Violations.
CD price: $15.00
SUSAN CONGER AND FRIENDS: Along the River
This joyful and energetic selection of New England tunes, featuring fiddles and piano, will have you dancing around your kitchen.
Recommended if you like Natalie MacMaster, Jay Ungar.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
HOUSE RED: Uncorked
Driving traditional acoustic music: fiddle, piano, and guitar.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JULIA MCCRORY WEATHERFORD: The View from Here
Fiddle, cello, percussion, harmony vocals woven into lovely tapestry. Tradtional and original songs, irish and american dance tunes,airs and waltzes.
FOOTLOOSE: Everdance
A collection of beautiful waltzes from French Canadian, Scottish, Italian and Cajun traditions, Parisian musettes and original compositions. A delightfully varied mix of tempos and textures makes this recording perfect for twirling around the dance hall.
Recommended if you like Wild Asparagus, Jay Ungar.CD price: $12.97
HOLLY & JAKE: Purple Heather
Celtic instrumentals featuring the hammered dulcimer and cittern
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
MATT WYATT: The Goodbye Waltz
"You ain't really playing a fiddle unless you make 'em pat thier foot." Hard driving, high energy fiddling backed by a strong rhythm guitar. (check out www.Fiddlesong.com)
CD price: $14.00
THE DONNYBROOK LEGACY: Growling Old Man
Traditional instrumental dance music played on fiddle, whistle, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, and guitar. Celtic, American, and Renaissance dance tunes are brought to life by this energetic, eclectic ensemble.
CD price: $10.00
TOM MACKENZIE: Wake Me When It's Over
This recording has it all, from originals to Scottish lullabies to Estonian folk tunes done on Hammered Dulcimer and banjo with guitars and clarinet.
Recommended if you like John McCutcheon.CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
CATHIE WHITESIDES: Sperantsa
Sperantsa features superbly versatile, expressive, and danceable fiddling from Celtic, American Old-Time, and original sources, with all-star dance-bands for backup.