Traditions
Maggie Sansone ~
Hammered Dulcimer
Over
sixty minutes of music featuring one of America's premier hammered
dulcimer performers on every track and with award winning celtic and
folk instruments joining in for a toe-taping jigs and reels and haunting
airs and renaissance tunes.
Includes music from two recordings: Hammer Dulcimer & Guitar: Traditional tunes from the British Isles, Ireland and America performed on hammered dulcimer, guitar, fiddle and bodhran and Hammered Dulcimer Traditions, another lively collection of jigs, reels and hornpipes from Ireland, with Scottish strathspeys, airs by Turlough O'Carolan, French-Canadian tunes, medieval and Renaissance dances and a country rag.
Simply the best all around, varied, and exciting collection of Celtic music featuring hammered dulcimer.
"Happy...haunting...it captures the essence of a unique kind of music."
- Bookreader
"Sansone's playing is authentic, impeccable and utterly her own."
- The Celtic Fringe
"Delicate and spirited performances... excellent!"
- Heartsong Review
Tune List
Listen
to a samples of tracks 6, 8 and 10.
- Boys of the Lough / Miss Monaghan (2:27)
- Scotch Mist/Marquis of Huntley's Strathspey (2:19)
- Abbots Bromley Dance (2:15)
- Miss Patterson / Johnny's Gone to France (3:25)
- Sailor's Hornpipe (2:47)
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Parson's Farewell (4:48) - Stone's Rag (2:29)
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Stream of the Cat / The Hunt (4:06) - Shandon Bells / Fair Jenny (3:11)
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Bridget
Cruise (3:00) - Ductia (3:10)
- Reel de Montreal / Reel de Lapin (2:45)
- Alexander's / Poppyleaf (3:33)
- Planxty Browne (1:00)
- Fingal's March (1:33)
- Jack A Tar / Petronella (3:35)
- Haste to the Wedding/Irish Washerwoman (3:05)
- Over the Waterfall (2:15)
- Sally Gardens (4:08)
- Battle of Aughrim (1:13)
- Greensleeves (1:13)
- Dill Pickles Rag (2:24)
- Si Bheag / Si Mhor (2:51)
