This is information on the Contra Dance Music that is being played - contracast 4.

1.The Galtee Rangers/The Plough And The Stars/Wissahickon Drive (Liz Carrol)
Here's to You
Bog Wanderers
Joe DeZarn - fiddle, mandola, mandolin
Tabby Finch - piano, harp, hammered dulcimer
Danny Flynn - accordions, harmony vocals
Betsy O'Malley - vocals, banjo, mandolin, tin whistle
Jesse Winch - drums, bodhran, percussion, mandola, guitar and harmonica

http://www.fallingmountain.com/bws.html

 

3. Contredanse-Reel de l'Issodun
Flapjack
Old Time Bush Swing
Jay Edmunds - fiddle, mandolin,guitar, vocals.
Karen Taylor - fiddle, clawhammer banjo, vocals
Teilhard Frost - washboard, feet, bones, jaw harp, harmonica, vocals
Sam Allison - bass fiddle, harmony vocals

http://www.flapjack.ca

 

5. Hans Thomsen/Søren Fogeds styk'/Det først' brujstyk'; (trad. Denmark) three tunes from the Danish
island of Fanø.
Malargrót
Spaelimenninir
Jan Danielsson - fiddle
Erling Olsen - fiddle
Sharon Weiss - recorder
Ívar Bærentsen - mandolin, guitar
Kristian Blak - piano, harmonium, sporadic vocals
Charlie Pilzer - bass

http://www.spaelimenninir.com

 

2. Yurt In The Meadow (Gail Blake)/Julia Delaney
Grab Bag
Jiggermeister
Greg Sherman - Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass, Guitar, Mandolin
Andrew Marcus - Accordion, Backup Vocals
Bill Garrison - Fiddle, Mandolin, Banjo
Melissa Kacalanos - Percussion, Winds, Hurdy-Gurdy, everything else
Michael Ferguson (special guest) - Hammered Dulcimer, Trombone, Didgeridoo

http://www.amarcus.org/jiggermeister

 

4. I’m Too Sexy For My Djembe (Lisa Cortese, Adam Sutherland)/ Pierre’s Right Arm (Brian Pickell)/
Paddy’s Trip to Scotland/ Bishops’ Bellies (Lisa Cortese, Carley Williams)
Halali
Halali
Hanneke Cassel - fiddle, piano
Laura Cortese - fiddle, vocals
Lissa Schneckenburger - fiddle, background vocals
Flynn Cohen - guitar

http://halalifiddle.com

 

6.The Nuthatch(P. Martin)
^Slightly Dangerous
Merriweather
Peter Martin hammered dulcimer, flutes, and whistle
Kathie Aagaard, fiddle, viola
Bill Paine - guitars, bouzouki, tenor banjo, mandolin
Wes Maluk vocals, guitar, tenor banjo, percussion
Terry Maluk - vocals, percussion

http://www.westerry.com/merriweather

 

I want to thank the people that have allowed me to play their music.

 

Thanks to Joe DeZarn from the Bog Wanderers, Bill Garrison and Andrew Marcus from Jiggermeister, Karen Taylor from Flapjack, Lissa Schneckenburger from Halali, Charlie Pilzer from Spaelimenninir, and Terry Maluk and Peter Martin from Merriweather.