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Hanshaw Trio CD ...
Local Celtic CD
This new CD is on sale at Ludgate Farms now.
"The Hanshaw Trio is
pleased to announce the release of  our debut CD. Self-titled, the
recording features our mostly Celtic repertoire for fiddle (Jerry
Drumheller), hammered dulcimer (Marcy Prochaska), and guitar (Craig
Higgins).
The trio invites everyone to celebrate this release with
us on April 5. We'll be performing for Musicians Manques, an informal
concert series featuring Cornell musicians. The show will take place in
the Guerlac Room of the A. D. White House on campus, starting at
4:45pm.
CDs will also be available at our other performances, at
Ludgate Farms in Dryden (on Hanshaw Road!), or through our website, http://mp-dulcimer.com/hanshaw.html."
Circle D Nation
with the Henrie Brothers Stringband
"Ever West" CD release Party
 "Ever West" CD release Party Saturday Dec 16th 9 pm at the Rongovian Embassy Trumansburg NY.
Dee Specker, Danny Speer, Bobby Henrie and Doug Henrie. This new CD is on sale at Ludgate Farms now.
WonderMonday
This new CD is on sale at Ludgate Farms now. WonderMonday - EP release show at The Nines, Sat.  12/16 w/Johnny Dowd band. JD will start at 10:00 we will go on at 11:00. $5 cover. EP on sale at Ludgate Farms now.
"...I love the great interplay between the rich bass, stylish guitar and solid drums..."
WRALTH479. Guelph, ON
"...Great sound. Cool harmonies..."
Mara Kim, Bad Vilbel (Frankfurt)
"damn good groove, very tight... a little bit of that Dire Straits, beautifully sweet guitar sound..."
Ello Good, AcidPlanet.com
http://www.wondermonday.com/
Melissa's
new CD is out!
Available at Ludgate Farms now
Melissa Kacalanos (percussion, whistle, hurdy-gurdy) is a
freelance belly-dance and music teacher. She also
plays in  Jiggermeister, which has
just released a CD, and additionally she has
just released a solo CD of her own. [Jiggermeister
and the new solo CD are both available at Ludgate Farms]
from
Melissa --
Wednesday, September 21, at Barnes Hall at
Cornell. It's free, and I
think it's at 8:00. Thanks. --Melissa
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
...
Rabble Rousers: Old-Time stringband, playing  originals and
traditional southern old-time music. Darin Trass - Fiddle, Steve Selin -
Banjo, Jason Zorn - Guitar, Bret LeBleu - Bass. Their new CD "Rat Race"
is on sale at Ludgate Farms.
Rabble Rousers -- new
CD reviewed in Ithaca Times [ Ithaca
Times article
] and in the Ithaca Journal [ Ithaca
Journal Article ] This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
Kitchen
Chair
[ CD
Review Ithaca Times ]
Kitchen Chair, Jennifer Dotson
on fiddle and Gail Blake on
guitar,
hails from the rich musical ground of
Ithaca, New York. They offer a
wonderful repertoire of exquisitely interpreted tunes from New England,
Quebec, Ireland, Scotland, and Scandinavia, as well as inspired
originals, rooted in the contra dance tradition.
From the Folk
College website:
"Kitchen Chair has attended every Folk College since the beginning, and
now we welcome them back as staff! Based in Ithaca NY, the duo of
Jennifer Dotson on fiddle and Gail Blake on guitar plays for
contra dances all over the eastern U.S. Their specialty is rhythmic,
neo pan Celtic fiddle tunes that make you want to dance."
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
...
New
Album from
Traonach ...
"Macintosh Jon"
traditional
Irish Music made in Ithaca ... This
wonderful recording is on sale at Ludgate Farms. Some
history...
From
Traonach's  first
album: "About the name Traonach ("TRAY-knock") Traonach is the Gaelic
term for the corncrake, a reclusive and entirely inoffensive bird
formerly common throughout Europe, Central Asia, and Northern Africa.
In Ireland its gentle, evocative call (although it is quite raucous at
night) was once as familiar as the cuckoo's, but modern farming
developments (particularly the increased use of machine harvesters) have
brought the traonach to the brink of extinction; it is a very rare
class of creature in most of Europe and even Ireland today. The
Traonach has been celebrated in Irish mythology. It is shown
intertwined with a heron in the sixth-century Book of Kells; in the
stamps of numerous countries from the Ukraine to Ireland, and in print
or song by the likes of Flann O'Brien, Archie Fisher, the Pogues, and
Silly Wizard. We all liked the name and the rural association (for this
music is of a famously rural cast) but when we heard that Felix
McGowan's nickname for the youthful Ed was "The Corncrake," the vote
was unanimous."
Turtle
United CD is out!
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
...
Turtle
United
of Rochester, NY was formed in late 2003 by
four young people of varied musical backgrounds
united by a love of contradancing and contradance music. The band plays
traditional and original fiddle tunes as
well as some unusual covers of Rusted Root and Ani
Difranco among others.
Always fun and danceable, the mood of the Turtles can be funky, dreamy,
silly, rocking, slinky, and everything in between!
Turtle
United
of Rochester, NY was formed in late 2003 by
four young people of varied musical backgrounds
united by a love of contradancing and contradance music. The band plays
traditional and original fiddle tunes as
well as some unusual covers of Rusted Root and Ani
Difranco among others.
Always fun and danceable, the mood of the Turtles can be funky, dreamy,
silly, rocking, slinky, and everything in between!
Laurie Hart's New CD is out ...
this is available at Ludgate's
CD cover watercolor by Camille Doucet
Cobbler's
Dream
Le
Rêve du cordonnier
traditional
French, Irish, Scandinavian and Québec tunes and songs
Laurie
Hart,
fiddle, nyckelharpa, hardanger fiddle
Paul
Marchand,
guitar, voice, feet
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Contranella
http://www.contranella.com/
John Wobus :: Megan Beller :: Charley Beller
 This new CD is on sale at Ludgate Farms now.
CD Release Party: Syracuse!
Friday, Jan 5
Contranella
Fiddle tune romp with piano & percussion
May Memorial, $8/5/4
www.contranella.com
Contranella just got a nice write up in a press release for their concert at the May Memorial in Syracuse in January. [ press release here ]
Five2
Their debut CD, "Sweet
End",
on I-Town Records - available at Ludgate Farms on Hanshaw Rd NOW!
A striking female vocal
trio from Ithaca, NY, Five2  captivates
listeners with lush three-part harmonies, poignant songwriting, and one
guitar played in an uncommon style. A live performance by these three
women exudes warmth, rare musical chemistry, and a love of folk,
country, jazz and pop. Five2,
which features vocalist/guitarist Uniit Carruyo (formerly of Sim
Redmond
Band) and
vocalists, sisters Charisse Lucente and Yvette Lucente, will be
releasing their debut record, SWEET END, on ITown Records. More
information can be found at www.five2.net
New
recording from Uniit
...
Uniit has a new project
coming out. It's called Glen The Owl and
is a
collaboration with producer Billy Cote. For now we'll
just say that you will be blown away! This CD is now available at Ludgate's
New CD
recording at Ludgate Farms
from:
Kristina
Stykos
Born in Ithaca, NY,
Kristina came of age in the
heartland of a lusty
and wildly growing folk music scene, led by a new  wave of acoustic
guitar and fiddle driven bands. From the rural fields of Trumansburg’s
old time music gatherings to cozy Sunday night coffeehouses to gigantic
Woodstock-like concerts on campus, Kristina stood looking on with a
fierce passion growing within to find her way to the stage.
Kristina’s performing life began in Boston where she moved in 1976, as
opportunities arose for solo gigs in Cambridge clubs and restaurants.
Meanwhile, her double life as a waitress, student and worker bee in the
avante garde film-making community led her to the punk lofts of the
Italian North End, rocker parties in city mansions and other
stimulating and eye-opening venues of self-expression. A consequent
spiritual crisis precipitated her pilgrimage to Vermont in 1980, where
she ultimately settled and began the slow work of deepening her
introspective skills as a songwriter. In the quiet of a remote mountain
town in winter, she wrote most of the material for her first
self-produced album of original music “Crazy Sorrows” in 1986, while
living in a cabin with no running water, and just enough electricity to
run her electric piano.
The combination of these three women, each prolific in their
songwriting and tunesmithing, makes Bellatrix radiant in the night sky
of contemporary acoustic music. Each offers up a stirring and
independent voice; together they touch the heart and soul of their
American roots.
Kristina currently resides in Chelsea, VT with her husband,
guitar-maker Michael Millard, and their three children.
http://www.kristinastykos.com/home.html
Jiggermeister
Jiggermeister has a
new
CD recently released of original
and traditional dance tunes. We  have some at Ludgate's now for sale. This
band of four talented musicians includes Bill Garrison and Melissa
Kacalanos - Bill G jams with us often and plays often on Monday
nights on the Commons in the summer. Melissa is an extraordinary dancer
and musician - she teaches dancing and music... she played with us on
the commons this past summer.
Melissa who is in Mockin'bird is
also in Jiggermeister.
This is the band Bill Garrison is in, they just released a new CD! We
have it at Ludgate's. There is a very fun version of Old Joe Clark with
Melissa's vocals .... scroll down a bit for more info.
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
Best CDs of 2004
(Ithaca Journal)
by Jim Catalano
12/30/2004 Ticket:
"As
2004 winds to a close, it's time for me to announce the winners of
my annual Soundoff awards, nicknamed the "Jimmies." I started doing
these awards in 1994 to recognize my favorite acts of the Ithaca music
scene, which continues to teem with immensely talented people
(especially the current crop of high school bands).
There
were around 30 CDs released
locally in the past year (plus a few more from neighboring Cortland),
and while I didn't get to hear of all them, I did listen to the ones
that made it to my mailbox at the Journal before early December.
As
always, these award choices are
entirely subjective and the categories are completely arbitrary. The
winners (I try not to repeat them from the previous year) receive
absolutely nothing except a handshake and a "Way to Go" next time I see
them around town.
The envelopes, please:" [ article
and awards ]
Marcy Prochaska
..
[ CD
Review Ithaca Times ]
This
CD is now on sale at Ludgate Farms [ title list ]
...
Hammered
dulcimer artist Marcy Prochaska has completed a new album of
instrumental Christmas  music.
Recorded at Electric Wilburland, What Child Is This? features hammered
dulcimer with guitar, recorder, bowed psaltery, and fiddle. Some of the
pieces are familiar, such as "Silent Night" and "O Come, O Come
Emmanuel," while others are new, like "Fallen," or less well-known,
like "The Lord at First Did Adam Make." Together, these tunes tell a
broad story of Christmas, looking back to the Fall in Eden that
Christmas promises to redeem, and looking forward to Easter when that
promise was fulfilled.
For more information, please
visit Marcy's website,
http://mp-dulcimer.com.
RadioFreeIthaca.net
RadioFreeIthaca.net is a non-profit
station, here for the sole purpose of supporting Ithaca's thriving
local music scene. In any half hour period, you just might  hear such divergent
styles as reggae, old time, folk, rock, bluegrass, country, jazz, jam,
pop, soul, fusion, surf, gypsy, electronic, punk, carribean, and
various African styles. Ithaca's music is being exported all over the
country and the world, as many artists and bands have made trips to
Europe, Japan, or South America. Eminating from a beautiful land,
filled with beautiful people, Ithaca's music will captivate your ears
and ease your mind. [ more
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