Folk » Instrumental
VARIOUS BULGARIAN FOLKLORE ARTISTS: Bulgarian Bagpipe
Selected bagpipe recordings from Bulgaria. VISIT www.bulgarianmusic.net
Recommended if you like River Dance.MP3 price: $12.97
PAPA JOHN KOLSTAD: Papa John Kolstad and the Hot Club of East Lake
Debut recording of legendary folk and blues artist, Papa John Kolstad with The Hot Club of East Lake which grew out of informal sessions at Molly Quinn's Pub in South Minneapolis.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MICHAEL C. SCHMITT: Firedance
Firedance melts classical elements, jazz, pop and folk in a very fresh and new way, creating a new entity that you could best describe as "worldfolkpoprock".
Recommended if you like Mike Oldfield.CD price: $14.98 / MP3 price: $9.99
MICK O'BRIEN AGUS CAOIMHÍN Ó RAGHALLAIGH: Kitty Lie Over
Sumptuous and gentle music on fiddle and uilleann pipes from two of Ireland's best traditional musicians
MP3 price: $18.00
JAMES LEVA & PURGATORY MOUNTAIN: Winkin' Eye
A prolific composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, whose virtuosity on fiddle, clawhammer banjo and guitar blends the melodies of the traditional Appalachian lands and their ancient descendants into one powerful musical vision.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE MAGIC SQUARE: Isn't anyone going to stop them?
This is an album of Irish Traditional Music.
Recommended if you like Eliot.CD price: $16.99 / MP3 price: $16.99
CADY FINLAYSON: Irish Coffee
"Spirited Irish fiddle with a global twist, "Irish Coffee" features lively Irish reels, beautiful melodies and American folk influences.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JAYME STONE: The Utmost
2008 Juno Award winner for Instrumental Album of the Year in Canada. "Bridging jazz, bluegrass and everything in between with smart compositions, playful jams, and a great sense of purpose. It's music that's difficult to describe, but easy to love." CBC
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
LAUREN MACCOLL: When Leaves Fall
BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award winner makes a stunning debut fiddle album combining traditional Scottish tunes with her own-compositions. "A unique style, graceful and elegant, agile and uplifting. A stand out recording" -(Penguin Eggs)
CD price: $23.50 / MP3 price: $22.00
DAVID SINCLAIR: No Words
Original and traditional bluesy, jazzy, Celtic acoustic guitar instrumentals by guitarist known for his work with Sarah McLachlan, KD Lang, etc
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
WALTER HENSLEY: From The Hills
Driving Bluegrass banjo instrumentals with unique twists featuring Walt Hensley, a master of the 5 string banjo.
Recommended if you like Earl Scruggs.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MOLLY'S REVENGE WITH MOIRA SMILEY: The Western Shore
Dynamic. Acoustic. Celtic
CD price: $17.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JUAN SILOS JR. & RONDALLA: Philippine Folk Dances Vol. 4
A collection of traditional Philippine Folk Dances arranged and conducted by Juan Silos Jr. & Rondalla
CD price: $12.97
JUAN SILOS JR.: Philippine Folk Dances Vol.2
Collection of traditional Philippine folk dances conducted by Juan Silos Jr. and his Rondalla
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JANET HARBISON & CLARSHEREE: Feasting With Carolan
The music of O'Carolan - the Irish Mozart for harp, flute, harpsichord, uilleann pipes & vocals
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
J. SAMUEL VANCE: Banjo Crossing
Instrumental banjo music ranging from hard driving Scruggs classics to Appalachian fiddle tunes to swing and Broadway hits
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
WAKE CLINARD: Voices of an Eclectic Collection
Acoustic instrumentals played on vintage guitars, mandolins, mandocellos, dobros and other beautiful old instruments
CD price: $8.00 / MP3 price: $6.00
DON PERIS: Brighter Visions Beam Afar
Spare, gorgeous, instrumental versions of traditional holiday songs by the innocence mission's Don Peris.
Recommended if you like Natalie Merchant, The Innocence Mission.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ARNIE NAIMAN, BRIAN TAHENY, CHRIS COOLE, CHRIS QUINN: The Banjo Special
Bluegrass, old time clawhammer, and Irish style banjo music on one CD.
CD price: $13.95
ORQUESTA ATIPICA: Tango Dogs
Tango, neo-tango, and pseudo tango which Illinois Entertainer called "simultaneously soothing and stirring, and altogether unusual," this sensual feast of instrumental music features the unusual instrumentation of guitar, accordion, flute, and bass.
CD price: $16.00
PIPES AND DRUMS OF THE LONDON SCOTTISH REGIMENT: Tunes Of Glory
A salute to the Scottish regiments, whose traditions and deeds are commemorated in this album.
CD price: $14.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
DICK HENSOLD: Big Music For Northumbrian Smallpipes
traditional and newly-composed acoustic music for the Northumbrian smallpipes (a quiet bagpipe from the North of England) in full, lush arrangements with other instruments.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
RICHMOND FONTAINE: Thirteen Cities
Recorded at Wavelab in Tucson, this record adds southwestern flavor to the band's repertoire. Look for cameos by locals Joey and Jacob from Calexico and Howe Gelb.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TULSA DRONE: Songs From a Mean Season
If there was a movie made that featured a lot of trains and rivers, this would be the soundtrack.
CD price: $10.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
PACHAMAMA/SUKAY: La Llamada (The Call)
High Energy Instrumentals of the Andes
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
COMHALTAS: Rogha Órdha
A selection of Irish traditional 'golden moments' of music and song launched at Scoil Éigse 2001 to celebrate Comhaltas's Golden Jubilee
CD price: $12.97
MITTLÅT: Grannlåtar
Traditional Swedish folk music on fiddles and two-row accordeon with a new touch.
CD price: $16.90
VAN DJANGO: Tiptoe Trip
Gypsy jazz with a twist. Van Django's arrangements and original compositions draw on a galaxy of musical styles while remaining true to their primary influence the "Quintet Of The Hot Club Of France".
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ANDY FINDON: When The Boat Comes In
Astounding recordings of specially created arrangements and compositions by & for this stunning virtuosic multi woodwind instrumentalist, crossing over a vast musical spectrum, from Tallis to Led Zep.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALESSANDRO MONTI: unfolk
unorthodox folk music for mandolin (with ethnic percussion, violin and various guitars) shifting from acoustic to metal, from raga to dark electronics into pure noise.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ETTA BAKER WITH TAJ MAHAL: Etta Baker with Taj Mahal
"From Bob Dylan to Taj Mahal, Etta has influenced the best of American music for 50 years" -Tim Duffy
CD price: $15.00
ETTA BAKER AND CORA PHILLIPS: Carolina Breakdown
Etta and Cora show us how music used to be played a long time ago. A deep source for inspiration." -Taj Mahal
CD price: $15.00
JAMIE LAVAL: Shades of Green
Expressive Celtic tradition and innovation: Fiddle Champion's subtle arrangements run the gamut from tender and melancholy to wildy jubilant. "Tune after tune evokes an ancient tradition of the music of Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany" (Albany Herald)
MP3 price: $15.00
AIDAN BURKE: Feel The Bow
The fire and passion of this album heralds the arrival of a new movement in Irish Music. It knocks the dry startchiness out of the common reel. The Irish Jig is no longer an apologetic folk tune. Freedom of expression has now found its rightful place here
Recommended if you like Martin Hayes, Kevin Burke.CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $20.00
DAMIEN CONNOLLY: Tippin' Away
Dynamite Irish music from a young All-Ireland accordion and melodeon champion from Co. Clare steeped in the deep tradition of his celebrated family (father Martin & uncle Seamus), with some French & Quebecois tunes for variety & a bit of craic...
LISA LYNNE AND ARYEH FRANKFURTER: Two Worlds One
Internationally recognized recording artists Lisa Lynne and Aryeh Frankfurter perform traditional melodies and original compositions rooted in world folk traditions.
Recommended if you like Enya, Loreena McKennitt.CD price: $14.99
DUNHAM VAN DURHAM: Simpler Times
Like freshly tilled earth, this heartland gem will enrich your soul time and time again. A debut from small-town Tennessee legends 40 years in the making - one listen and you'll see what the fuss is all about.
MP3 price: $9.99
BILL COLLINS AND NINA ZANETTI: The Sum of the Parts
Mountain dulcimer solos and duets.
CD price: $15.00
FIDDLIN DAVE AND MORGAN: Tunes from the River House
An all instrumental ethno- Irish old time world music album
CD price: $12.97
THE RYAN EXPRESS: Please Be Seated
Melodramatic acoustic tunes with a mix of 90's alternative
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $7.00
DENNIS DOYLE: Hibernia
All-instrumental Celtic harp, beautiful, peaceful, quiet, serene, gentle music that will get you through the day.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
WILDERNESS ROAD: Music of the Backcountry
old time music
Recommended if you like Bruce Molsky, The Red Clay Ramblers.CD price: $16.95
KITTY'S RETURN: Kitty's Return
Traditional Irish Folk music played on Concertina, Uilleann Pipes, Tin Whistle and Cittern.
Recommended if you like The Chieftains, Paddy Keenan.CD price: $20.00 / MP3 price: $20.00
ARYEH FRANKFURTER: Harper's Brew
An enchanting collection of traditional Celtic melodies, each performed on the Celtic folk harp. Experience a rich "brew" of moods and melodies - from ethereal and unworldly to the delightfully playful and lyrical, to the romantic and hauntingly plaintive
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
ARYEH FRANKFURTER: Aurora of the Northern Harp
Bask in the aural aurora of traditional folk music from Sweden, Norway and Finland. The album will take you on an exciting and exotic instrumental journey to the lands of herding calls, polskas, halligs, waltzes, marches and airs.
Recommended if you like Loreena McKennitt, Väsen.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
THE AM STRING BAND: Take Root
Traditional old-time fiddle music mixed with original Americana and folk muslc.
Recommended if you like Foghorn String Band, Tall Boys.CD price: $12.97
WLADIGEROFF BROTHERS & BAND: Wanderer in love
An ethno-jazz CD with Balkan folklore. VISIT www.bulgarianmusic.net
Recommended if you like Ivo Papasov, Theodosii Spassov.CD price: $15.90 / MP3 price: $12.97
ANN HEYMANN: Cruit go nÓr • Harp of Gold
Cláirseach master Ann Heymann plays repertoire from the age of her instrument (c.1100-1700): the Gaelic gold-, silver-, and brass-strung harp, both solo and accompanied by lute, vielle, gamba and flute.
CD price: $18.00
FULVIO REDEGHIERI: Valzer
From the silence a waltz rings, clear as the sound of an accordion. It takes to the air, growing, embracing you, laughing and smiling. Recommended if you like accordion and violoncello sounds
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
VASSILIS TZORTZINIS: ITANOS
Itanos was an ancient city at the east edge of Crete island in Aegean Sea, being famous in the past as a sea commercial crossroad. The project Itanos is influenced by the music of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the Balkans.
CD price: $12.97
JUAN SILOS JR. & HIS RONDALLA: Philippine Folk Dance Vol. 3
Collection of traditional Philippine Folk Dances conducted by Juan Silos Jr. and his Rondalla.
CD price: $12.97
TIM KLIPHUIS: Live In Glasgow
Stephane Grappelli's Swing favorites mixed with Celtic Folk tunes and Stevie Wonder. Recorded in the intimate surroundings of Glasgow's Cultural Centre Cafe Cossachok: one of the world's top Gypsy Jazz groups, swinging and live.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $13.00
STEPHEN COHEN: Stories without Words
9 new original acoustic guitar solos by Tree People guitarist and composer Stephen Cohen- a "story without words" in each piece.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
AL MEIXNER, RON LUZNAR, KATHY HLAD, AL OTZEL, JOE PRINCE: Classic Button Box
All instrumental polkas & waltzes played by the American masters of the diatonic button box accordion.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
SONIC FLOW: The Unexpectedfit
They have fused American fingerstyle guitar with exotic percussive instruments to deliver fresh sounds with a tinge of familiarity.
CD price: $16.95 / MP3 price: $14.95
THE MAINE KANTELES: The Simple Gifts
Kantele - The Finnish folk harp with its history rooted in the Kalevala, Finland's national folk epic. This group plays and sings traditional and contemporary Finnish tunes as well as familiar American melodies.
CD price: $15.00
MARK FLETCHER: The Unbroken Line
A Celtic instrumental CD with classical, jazz, and bluegrass influences powered by an ever-evolving array of lead and backing instruments.
Recommended if you like Donal Lunny, Micheal McGoldrick.CD price: $16.00
GRETCHEN PRIEST AND PLAIDGRASS: Gretchen Priest and Plaidgrass
PLAIDGRASS is an top shelf acoustic band that plays a unique mixture of traditional Irish instrumentals with a bluegrass improvisational twist. Bracketed between rollicking contra and stepdance medleys are lush waltzes and barn burners. Terrific CD.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
IRON MOUNTAIN STRING BAND: If I Go Ten Thousand Miles
With fiddle, claw-hammer banjo, and flat picked guitar, this band has been playing traditional old-time Appalachian since 1965.
CD price: $12.97
ARIA DISALVIO: The Phoenix
Soulful, rhythmic arrangements of new and traditional Celtic tunes driven by cello.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
PEPE ACEVEDO: Lagrimas De Otoño
New age, chill out music featuring Irish uilleann pipes.
Recommended if you like Mike Oldfield, Gandalf.CD price: $12.97
GRASS ROUTES: Something New
Solid bluegrass with a mix of traditional, contemporary and folk music.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
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
BEGGARS' CIRCUS: Stolen Heart
Traditional Celtic music with a unique style of presentation.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
DOC ROSSI: Pasqualini Demarzi: Six Sonatas for Cetra or Kitara
Eighteenth-century cittern music played on an original 18th-century cittern plus archlute and baroque guitar. Six sonatas plus six solos of Irish traditional music.
Recommended if you like John Renbourn, Julian Bream.CD price: $12.97
ATHAS: Athas
This traditional Irish trio produces a beautiful, upbeat blend of Irish fiddle, viola, whistle, wooden flute, guitar, bodhran, djembe, and spoons in their debut album.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
POVERTY LINE OLD TIME BAND: Poverty Line Old Time Band
Your toothless Great Grandpa Earl from Big Stone Gap grooving to your favorite local indie band - old-time is the new punk rock. More banjo, less pants.
Recommended if you like Doc Watson, The New Lost City Ramblers.CD price: $19.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
GADU GADU: Live At The Yard
Folk jazz in rare and very sophisticated edition.
CD price: $18.00 / MP3 price: $18.00
PIPER ROAD SPRNG BAND: Breathless
Instrumental bluegrass featuring fiddle and mandolin - traditional and progressive
CD price: $12.97
BRIAN THOMAS: Prairie Rain
Like lying in the shade of a big tree on a summer day and staring at the sky. Peaceful, melodic, instrumental Celtic-folk music with hammered dulcimer, guitar, piano, recorders, violin, and percussion.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
RICHARD SMITH AND AARON TILL: Out of Nowhere
Together Richard and Aaron play a wide range of music including traditional fiddle tunes, Reinhardt and Grappelli swing standards, Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed numbers, and popular classics.
CD price: $15.00
JEWELS AND BINOCULARS/ HORNER, MOORE, VATCHER PLAY DYLAN: Ships With Tattooed Sails
New CD from this collective trio focusing on improvisatory instrumental interpretations of the bard. Guitarist Bill Frisell is special guest on three tracks.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
WELSH-ARGENTINE GUITAR DUO (ADAM KHAN & LUIS E. ORIAS DIZ): Interludio-(music For 2 Guitars By Leo Brouwer, Walter Heinze, John Duarte And Steve Marsh)
Music for 2 guitars from Argentina, Cuba and Great Britain. Includes Leo Brouwer's complete duo repertoire.
Recommended if you like John Williams, Julian Bream.CD price: $7.99 / MP3 price: $5.99
J PAUL JR & THE ZYDECO NUBREEDS: Zeality
French Creole music of rural Southwest Louisiana, blending it with the sounds of blues, R&B and Hip Hop, and creating a new musical genre acquiring the name Zydeco.
Recommended if you like Beau Jocque.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
ROSS WALDRON: Standard Tuning Armageddon
Intricate and unusual compositions matched by technical fingerpicking prowess.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SAVIA ANDINA: Savia Andina Classics
High energy world music of the Andes
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
ANN GRAY: Tales Of Magpies & Ravens - A Collection
Bagpipes, Scottish smallpipes, low whistles, and great accompaniment on acoustic and electric guitars, bass guitar, violin, and percussion are complemented by highland bagpipe solos to round out this collection of favorite tracks.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
NED AND REBECCA SPURLOCK: Shady Grove
Hammer Dulcimer bluegrass duets featuring Ned Spurlock and his amazingly talented daughter Rebecca, playing bluegrass standards, accompanied by the nationally famous bluegrass band "Cadillac Sky".
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NED SPURLOCK: Life's A Melody
Original hammer dulcimer compositions by Ned Spurlock recorded in lush arrangements with live orchestra.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NED SPURLOCK: O'Carolan's Concerto
Irish ballads written by Turlough O'Carolan played on hammer dulcimer accompanied by: string quartet, woodwind quintet, horn quintet, chamber ensembles, flute choir and full orchestra, all instrumental and acoustic.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ROB BOCHNIK: Blowing Out the Cobwebs
Debut solo release from Rob Bochnik, guitarist with The Frames. ranges in style between: finger-style acoustic, rocking americana, good old style indie rock, and a hint of blues.
CD price: $12.50
WILLIAMS & BRAY: Bluegrass Hoedown
Traditional square and old-time dance tunes played bluegrass style by noted Pacific Northwest bluegrass band, Williams & Bray, featuring Vivian Williams on fiddle and Harley Bray on banjo.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
PETE HUTTLINGER: Hymns For Guitar
Gospel music for solo acoustic guitar.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ALAN MICELI: Errington Way
Solo acoustic guitar. Quiet, mediative, relaxing
CD price: $16.95 / MP3 price: $9.99
GRAINNE HAMBLY: The Thorn Tree
Irish traditional music on solo harp - from haunting airs, to lively jigs and reels, to pieces from the 17th and 18th century wire harp repertoire, the full scope and versatility of this ancient instrument become apparent in the hands of a master.
CD price: $17.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
JAIME RT WITH ANDY HILLHOUSE: Spark
Sparky & groovin', this duo release features Jaime RT on the fabulous 5-string viola -- or "fiddola", and Andy on guitar in an expansive original meld of folk, funk, jazz and traditional tunes that are putting west coast folk music on the map.
CD price: $13.97
MEGAN BELLER, JOHN WOBUS, AND CHARLEY BELLER: Contranella
Fiddle stomp family band plays original and traditional fiddle tunes and dance music. Tracks long enough to call dances to.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
PETER OSTROUSHKO/THE MANDO BOYS: The Mando Boys Live:holstein Lust
Mandolin quartet on steroids meets the three stooges and play everything from ragtime to rumba, Bach to Benny (Goodman).
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
JOHN ALLEN: Lewis & Clark Fort Clatsop Fiddle Tunes
Oldtime fiddle tunes, most with Irish origins, played in a southern influenced style, which were known at the time of the Lewis and Clark expedition using the instrumentation described in the journals.
CD price: $14.00
CHRIS HENRY: Monroe Approved
Bill Monroe acolyte Chris Henry displays an unequalled passion for the mandolin. His tunes are unmistakable; a firey drive fuels his playing. CD includes one previously unrecorded Monroe composition.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
DAN LANDRUM: Winter Mix
Old world tunes, new world groove.
Recommended if you like Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Béla Fleck.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
ART TURNER: Story Water
"Like music your soul might sing on a late-night train trip." (Sienna Wildfield, WPKN Radio)
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
ART TURNER: Red Havens Rising
"Like music your soul might sing on a late-night train trip." (Sienna Wildfield, WPKN Radio)
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
BEN BONHAM: Slide Show
Beautiful, atmospheric acoustic guitar instrumentals - from the Piedmont to the Delta, from Hawaii to home.
Recommended if you like Ry Cooder.
JOEL FAFARD: Rocking Horse
"the hint of backwoods cajun vibe hovers around the edges of these songs. This magic and earthiness appears to be born out the group's unique personalities and shimmering swooping waves of sound. A sympathetic energy truly bigger than the sum of it's p
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOEL FAFARD: ...and another thing...
Winner 2006 - Outstanding Instrumental Recording - Western Canadian Music Awards. Nominee 2006 - Best Instrumentalist - Canadian Folk Music Awards 2007 Juno Nominee for Instrumental Album of the Year.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $9.99
SALZBURGER ECHO ALPHORNS: Cornucopia
Contemporary and traditional Alphorn music. Solo, duo, trio and quartet.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
DAVID HYAMS WITH THE MILES TO GO BAND: Knowing The Place
A melting pot of celtic and american-influenced new acoustic styles, yet firmly grounded in the Australian landscape. Features many fine Australian players on a world spanning array of instruments incl. uillean pipes, cello, dobro, mandolin and didgeridoo
CD price: $15.00
FRANK SOLIVAN II: I am a Rambler
An amazing acoustic record with David Grier, Byron House, Rob Ickes, Shad Cobb, Richard Bailey, Kathy Chiavola, and more. Frank will have you tapping your toes and you'll find a new appreciation for "Bluegrass" and "Acoustic" music.
CD price: $13.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
BONNIE RIDEOUT: Bonnie Rideout Scottish Trio Live, The Barns at Wolf Trap
"Live" delivers fresh compositions never before recorded spanning four hundred years of fiddle and pipe music from the rich Celtic culture of Rideout and O'Sullivan's heritage.
Recommended if you like Natalie, Eileen Ivers.CD price: $12.97
ETTA BAKER: Railroad Bill
"One of the signature chords of my guitar vocabulary comes from her version of Railroad Bill. Enjoy this beautiful album of guitar instrumentals." -Taj Mahal
CD price: $15.00
CÉ: Cé
Cé, a traditional Irish band based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA featuring Asher Gray, Devin McCabe, and Randy Gosa. Cé plays a blend of traditional and contemporary Celtic music, including tunes composed by all three members of the band.
MP3 price: $12.97
PAUL ASBELL: Roots & Branches: Further Adventures in Steel String Americana
Highly individualized acoustic-guitar-driven twists on blues and jazz standards, old-timey country-based themes and original pieces from the "american roots" tradition.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $13.97
CADY FINLAYSON: Harp and Shamrock
Uplifting Irish fiddle music with worldbeat influences, fiddler Cady Finlayson is joined by instruments including banjo, concertina, percussion, guitar, harp and more. This is the latest CD (2004).
CD price: $14.00 / MP3 price: $14.00
JERRY O'SULLIVAN: O'Sullivan Meets O'Farrell
"A sparkling summit linking two uilleann pipers separated by more than two centuries," this recording and accompanying 28 page CD booklet features music from the O'Farrell collections, as played by America's premier uilleann piper, Jerry O'Sullivan.
CD price: $17.99 / MP3 price: $17.99
PATRICK MANGAN: Farewell To Ireland
The debut album by New York based fiddler Patrick Mangan features a lively selection of traditional Irish tunes and an all-star lineup of musicians.
CD price: $15.00
BONNIE RIDEOUT: Scottish Inheritance
Scotland/Celtic/World Music- the first woman to hold the National Scottish fiddle title and the youngest to have garnered the US championship
CD price: $15.00
JUNE DE TOTH: Bartok Solo Piano Works, Volume 2
Capturing the essentially trochaic inflections of Hungarian speech with the knowing temperament of a native, she lays out the keyboard songs with the patrician air of an old storyteller at a family gathering.
CD price: $15.99
RAYNA GELLERT & SUSIE GOEHRING: Starch & Iron
Straight-ahead old-time fiddle tunes and songs played with guts in a pared-down setting. No overdubs, no fixes, this is a document of Rayna and Susie busting down.
CD price: $14.00
AILIE ROBERTSON: First Things First
Scottish, Irish and original music by award winning harpist Ailie Robertson
Recommended if you like Alan Stivell, Catriona MacKay.CD price: $18.95
GURF MORLIX: Birth To Boneyard
This is the instrumental version of Gurf's critically acclaimed album Diamonds To Dust - very cinematic and textural
CD price: $12.00
JOHN TURNER, MAYNARD JOHNSON, SARA JOHNSON, SARA WALTHERY: Favourite Scotch Measures
Traditional Scottish fiddle music, with fiddle, harp, hammer dulcimer and cello
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE GOTHARD SISTERS: Daughters of Erin
The Gothard Sisters delicately weave celtic tunes into harmonies including three fiddles, bodhran and voice, using traditional melodies and laments as well as exciting fiddle virtuosity.
Recommended if you like Natalie MacMaster, Dougie MacLean.CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
ARYEH FRANKFURTER: Sounds of the Season
Exquisite winter holiday music performed on Celtic harp with light accompaniment on acoustic instruments such as violin, viola, guitar, hammered dulcimer, mandolin, recorder and pennywhistle.
Recommended if you like Loreena McKennitt, Patrick Ball.CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
ARYEH FRANKFURTER: In the Moon of Wintertime
Rediscover the magic of Christmas-time music with this joyful and passionate instrumental collection of classic holiday melodies. Artfully arranged for the Celtic folk harp with tasteful accompaniment on a variety of acoustic instruments.
CD price: $14.99
THE SORRY SISTERS: Sweet Music
Instrumental mountain dulcimer music including traditional fiddle tunes.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
THE NETTLES: Flow
Folkadelic traditional fiddle tunes are a springboard for improvisation from this trio of fiddle, guitar and Indian tabla drums.
Recommended if you like Eileen Ivers, John Doyle.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $10.00
PAMELA BRUNER: The Gentle Maiden
Soft relaxing music for Celtic harp, cello, and woodwinds. Lovely music for a quiet evening, meditation, or massage.
CD price: $15.00
ALEX MEIXNER: The Legacy
Polkas and waltzes, of Slovenian, Austrian, Tejano, American, and European background.
Recommended if you like Frank Novak, Johnny Pecon.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MICHAEL CHORNEY: Songs in Secret Ink
Instrumental duets for acoustic prepared guitar and cello.
Recommended if you like John Cage.CD price: $12.97
BRIAN BORU IRISH PIPE BAND: Kelly, the Wearing of the Green - The Single (Bagpipes - Pipes and Drums)
Exuberant Bagpipe rendition of the classics 'Kelly' and 'The Wearing of the Green'
MP3 price: $1.00
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.
Recommended if you like O Brother Where Art Thou, High Woods String Band.CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
VARIOUS ARTISTS: The Revenge of Blind Joe Death: The John Fahey Tribute Album
Artists who were influenced by John Fahey play covers or original works inspired by and/or dedicated to him.
CD price: $14.95
THE MSD QUINTET: Driven
An eclectic sound of jazz/folk fusion from a traditional jazz quintet ensemble influenced by Yellowjackets, Pat Metheny Group, and other contemporary jazz artists.
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $7.99
GUETA NA FONTE: Como agua de Mayo
Celtic and proggresive folk with a strong Atlantic and Neo-romantic flavor, produced with a present style
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GLENN FALKENBERG: Christmas O Carrol
Celtic Christmas music for harp and hammered dulcimer.
CD price: $12.97
NICK FIORE, BUD CARNEY, PATTY GEORGE,AND TRAVIS SWACKHAMMER: The Golden Oldies
Good Old Time Music
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TONY SALA: Best-Loved Christmas Carols
A collection of international carols performed with my own classical arrangements, to be enjoyed at family gatherings during the Christmas season.
Recommended if you like Liberace, Ernesto Lecuona.CD price: $15.00
WATER BEAR: In The Moonlight
Rousing and soulful fiddle tunes with a twist and lots of improvisation: two violins, cello and some bass.
Recommended if you like Turtle Island String Quartet, Darol Anger.CD price: $14.78 / MP3 price: $14.78
MYRA JOY: Violoncello
Sweet, thoughtful, both melancholy and joyful. New traditional music for cello that draws upon Myra's unique sound and her childhood in the Bay Area surrounded by folk music of the Balkans, Ireland, and Scotland.
Recommended if you like Natalie Haas, Rushad Eggleston.CD price: $12.97
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN RUSSIAN FOLK ORCHESTRA: 10th Anniversary Concert CD
Russian and East-European folk music performed on authentic Russian instruments, domras and balalaikas.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
MIKE ANDERSON: Ice Out
Instrumental solo mountain dulcimer music. An eclectic collections of tunes ranging from South American lullibies to American fiddle tunes to an original.
Recommended if you like Kevin Roth.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TRISH CLAIR-PECK: Dawson's Tumble
A collection of traditional and original fiddle tunes with a distinct West-coast sound, recently nominated for a 2007 Canadian Folk Music Award.
CD price: $16.00 / MP3 price: $16.00
POTES FLOR': Folk Noz
Traditional dances of Brittany (France) and other folk dances.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
HAGIT & GIL: Flutes Around the Globe
A mixture of original and traditional music from around the world played by more than dozen authentic flutes from different cultures combined by ancient and modern unique musical instruments.
Recommended if you like Stephan Micus.CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
STEVE FERGUSON: The Well Tempered Piano II
Classic Americana with its European roots showing
Recommended if you like Stephen Foster, Jelly.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
TIM TWISS: Early Banjo Volume One
Minstrel Banjo. 19th Century instrumental American Roots Music played on a fretless, gut string banjo. This music is so old, it sounds brand new. Soothing, yet exciting.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
J PAUL JR & THE ZYDECO NUBREEDS: The Classic - CD
French Creole music of rural Southwest Louisiana, blending it with the sounds of blues, R&B and Hip Hop, and creating a new musical genre acquiring the name Zydeco.
Recommended if you like Beau Jocque.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
J PAUL JR & THE ZYDECO NUBREEDS: Diary of a Zydeco Rebel
French Creole music of rural Southwest Louisiana, blending it with the sounds of blues, R&B and Hip Hop, and creating a new musical genre acquiring the name Zydeco.
Recommended if you like Beau Jocque.MP3 price: $15.00
JULES BITTER: Irish Beat Conductor
40 Percussion tracks at different speeds to practice and play Irish Traditional Music for beginners and advanced players on rhythm and melody instruments
MP3 price: $9.00
DAVE HULL-DENHOLM & PAUL SUMMERS: Home in 3 bits
Poet Paul Summers and musician Dave Hull-Denholm coolaborated on 'home in 3 bits'. The result is a soundtrack to a never-to-be-made Northumbrian road-movie, a secular requiem, a touching elegy to a little girl lost.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
NED SPURLOCK: Reflections
Peaceful, soothing melodies from around the world, played on Hammer Dulcimer with oboe, English horn, flute, piano and harp.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AL MEIXNER: Button Box Treasures
Beautiful Alpine folk melodies recorded for the first time in America - all instrumentals.
Recommended if you like Frank Novak, Lojze Slak.CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
RALF KLEEMANN: Tides
Twelve original compositions, inspired by the Irish Atlantic coast, that display the full character of the Celtic Harp.
Recommended if you like The Modern.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
SASSANAK LASSIES: Fast And Dirty
Scottish fiddle music with a touch of soul
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
AOIFE GRANVILLE: Sráid Eoin Shuffle
Irish traditional flute, fiddle and vocals tracks with fantastic accompaniment from guitar, piano, harp
MP3 price: $15.00
KITSAP KONNECTION: Kitsap Konnection
A mix of old time fiddle tunes, Scandinavian polkas, and Bluegrass-Western Cowboy standards.
CD price: $10.00
TURTLE UNITED: Turtle United
Original fiddle tunes and great arrangements of traditional tunes by an energetic new contra dance band from Rochester, NY.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
KIRK ELLIOTT: Up From The Ground
A colourful collection of thought provoking instrumental music featuring classical and steel string guitar along with mandolin, dulcimer, harmonica, accordion, autoharp, cittern, keyboards, electric and acoustic bass and percussion.
CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
GEORGE PENK, CLYDE CURLEY, SUSAN SONGER: A Portland Selection 2: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest
Contra dance music played on high-energy and melodious fiddle, mandolin, and piano.
CD price: $15.00
GREENWOOD TREE: The Cottage Door
Traditional Celtic music on hammered dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, bowed psaltery, and bodhran
Recommended if you like John McCutcheon, Karen Ashbrook.CD price: $14.97 / MP3 price: $14.97
TROUZ BRAS: Trouz Bras and Friends
Trouz Bras (True Brazz) means "Big Noise" in the Celtic language of Brittany. They're the only band in North America to specialize in the dance music of this land which makes up the western half of contemporary France.
CD price: $15.00 / MP3 price: $15.00
PETER LAINSON: Instrumental Stories
Melodic driven tunes with rich harmony ranging from New-Age, Neo-Classical, Jazz, Folk, Latin and presented as instrumentals for light reflection, deep contemplation by a fire on a dark winter night or flying down a long stretch of highway.
Recommended if you like Pat Metheny, Larry Carlton.CD price: $9.00 / MP3 price: $9.00
FATS KAPLIN: The Fatman Cometh
Instrumental, Post Modern, Eclectic Folk, primarily Fiddle
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $14.99
HORSEPLAY: Roughshod
Horseplay dig deep into their English regional roots to create a wall of sound powered by Border and English bagpipes, driven by rhythmic guitar and edgy fiddle with grungy accordion and the sweetness of the wooden flute.
MP3 price: $18.97
SCOTT BRAVO: I Won't Say A Word
Calming yet sporadically rambunctious. Innovative yet familiar. Acoustic instrumental guitar to soothe the troubled soul and give rest to weary ears.
Recommended if you like Adrian Legg, Tommy Emmanuel.
JACK JEZZRO: Acoustic Dreams
A unique and uplifting finger-style acoustic guitar recording of 10 original compositions by the best selling guitarist and record producer Jack Jezzro.
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $8.97
JOHN NILSEN: Above Me
Award winning pianist John Nilsen returns to his earliest musical experiences with a rich collection of soulful interpretations of inspirational hymns backed by French horn, violin, guitar, bass, percussion, flute and Uileann pipes.
Recommended if you like George Winston, David Lanz.CD price: $12.97
DAN LANDRUM: Landrum Humphries
Two hammer dulcimers, two players, and dozens of fresh ideas.
CD price: $14.99 / MP3 price: $9.99
JOHN KEAWE: Beautiful Hula Dancer
Music that will inspire you - soothe you and experience the honesty of John's music.
Recommended if you like Keola Beamer.CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
MICHAEL J. MILES: Counterpoint (Book and CD)
Clawhammer banjo is an ancient downpicking style of playing strings. These are traditional tunes played with counterpoint harmony.
CD price: $20.00
PETER JANSON (& FRIENDS): Beautiful Day
this gorgeous new Contemporary Instrumental Folk Jazz album from Peter Janson & Friends, features
