This week we complete our two-week feature, Send the Singer Home, with instrumental selections from a variety of sources. I’m always searching for interesting instrumentalists for the theme music for each week’s program – while some artists are all-instrumental, others tuck hidden gems away, one to a recording project. This time we’ll hear the Acousticats, banjo master Bill Evans, Bruce Cockburn, Brass Lassie, Sharon Isbin-Amjad Ali Kahn, The Horseflies and more. Old-time, Celtic, world and even Beatles tunes … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

LISTEN:

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways
Bruce Cockburn / “Sweetness And Light” / Crowing Ignites / True North
Maire Ni Chathasaigh – Chris Newman / “Molly St. George” / Fire Wire / Old Bridge
The Acousticats / “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” / The Cat’s Meow / Ranch
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers / “She’s A Woman” / Last Night, This Morning / Blue Hen
Bill Evans / “Mother Nature’s Son”
“You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away”
“Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”
“A Hard Day’s Night” / In Good Company / Native & Fine
Bruce Cockburn / “Pibroch: The Wind in the Valley” / Crowing Ignites / True North
Brass Lassie / “The Crown Knot” / Brass Lassie / Self-produced
Jerry Miller / “Moon Fallin’” / New Road Under My Wheels / Signature Sounds
Sharon Isbin-Amjad Ali Khan / “Love Avalanche-Raga Mishra Bhairav” / Strings for Peace / Zoho
The Horseflies / “John Brown’s Dream” / Two Traditions / Self-produced
Leo Kottke / “Bean Time” / Greenhouse / Capitol-One Way
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” (excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian
              Folkways