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CD: A Companion for Book 2

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George Penk, fiddle; Clyde Curley, mandolin, octave mandolin, 4-string banjo;
Susan Songer, piano; with guest musician, Creighton Lindsay, guitar

© 2006
18 tracks / 36 tunes / 61:47 total time
Cost: $15

Reviews

 

A Portland Selection 2: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest

“[This] is as good an example of unpretentious, beautifully played dance music as you could wish to hear.” Brian Peters in Living Tradition.  

Tracks are:  (click on the red links to hear audio clips)

  1. Pigeon on the Gate / The Derry Reel / MacArthur Road (4:09) traditional / traditional / © Dave Richardson
  2. The Lads of Dunse / The Golden Legs (3:29) traditional / © Liz Carroll
  3. Reel de la Sauvagine (2:57) © Michel Bordeleau
  4. Le Tourment / La Maison de Glace / Early in the Year (4:15) © Jean-Paul Loyer/ © Réjean Brunet / © Dan Compton
  5. Le 24 Juin (2:58) © Philippe Bruneau
  6. Black Jack Grove / Shady Grove (3:23) traditional / traditional
  7. The Cincinnati Rag /Stone's Rag (3:02) traditional / Oscar Stone
  8. The Carraroe / Sergeant Early's Dream (4:29) traditional / traditional
  9. MacLeod's Farewell (2:42) © Donald Shaw
  10. Miss Gayton's Hornpipe / Jacky Tar / Miss Thompson's (3:45) traditional / traditional / traditional
  11. Lost Everything / Last Chance (3:27)© James Leva / traditional
  12. The Green Apple Quickstep / Belknap's March /Multnomah March (3:19) © David Kaynor/ © Bill Wellington / © Bob McQuillen
  13. Mad River / Lake Erie / Hey Little Girl, Do What I Tell You (4:35) © Pete Sutherland / traditional / anonymous
  14. The Flowers of Autumn (2:39) © Clyde Curley
  15. The White Petticoat (3:47) traditional
  16. Hole in the Hedge / The Mist-Covered Mountain / Munster Buttermilk (3:56) traditional / © Junior Crehan / traditional
  17. Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July /Grey Eagle / Walk Up Georgia Row (3:54) traditional / traditional / traditional
  18. Reprise (:48)

This recording is a companion CD for the tune book, The Portland Collection: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest, Volume 2. Musicians George Penk, Clyde Curley, and Sue Songer, have played for contra dances in Portland and throughout the Northwest for decades. On this recording, they bring the music from the pages of The Portland Collection, Volume 2 to life with rhythms and stylings that pop out while playing for dances—nuances of music that are difficult to convey in the pages of a tune book. The tunes on the recording are a cross section of the tunes in the book and represent the different genres and sources of contra dance music. There is a mix of both traditional and recently composed tunes as well as popular standards and tunes that have not been recorded before. Most of the music on the recording is arranged in dance-type medleys and played at dance speed. However, some of the tracks are played slowly with broader variation than is possible at dances and may suggest ways of approaching the music outside a contra dance setting. 

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