SORM Playlist #15-01: There’s A New Year’s Dance
(airing the week starting 12-31-14)
In most lands and cultures the arrival of the New Year is a reason to celebrate. Often those celebrations come in the form of dance. This week we welcome the New Year with dance tunes from New England, the Midwest, Appalachia and the Canadian Maritimes. So move the furniture, roll up the carpet and put on your dancing shoes there’s a New Year’s Dance!
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra / “Coleraine” / Mistwold / F&W
Bare Necessities / “Take a Dance” / Take a Dance / Flying Fish
The White Cockade / “Tipsy O’er the Glen” / Tartan Capers / Self-Produced
The Carawan Family / “Dance at Windy’s Place” / Home Brew / Flying Fish
Mark Tamsula &Richard Withers / “The Lost Indian” / Up in the Batten
House / Snappin’ Bug
Bruce Greene & Don Pedi / “The Old Folks Played and the Young
People Danced” Stranger on a Mule / Hazeldog
Benton Flippen & Molly Mason / “Rickett’s Hornpipe” / Old Time,
New Times / Rounder
The Foghorn Stringband / “Humpback Mule” / Outshine the Sun / Self-Produced
Canterbury Country Dance Orchestra / “Madame Bonaparte” /
Mistwold / F&W
Ray Bierl / “Cowboy Dancing-Cowboy Waltz” / Cowboy Dancing /
Greasy String
Lynn “Chirps” Smith / “Stonewall Jackson” / Midwestern Harvest /
Marimac
Paul Englesberg / “Medley of Quicksteps by A. Draper” / Tunes
from the Peter Beemer Manuscript / Voyager
Top Drawer String Band / “Big Nick’s Rolling Reel-Sean Rio’s” /
Top Drawer String Band / Fossil
Natalie MacMaster / “Opening Figure” / Live / Rounder
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason / “The Lovers’s Waltz” / The Lover’s
Waltz / Angel
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways