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Choose Your Partners-Contra
Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Farewell to Whiskey/Silver and Gold Two Step
2. Money Musk
3. The Woman Fiddler/Munster Lass/Rock Valley/Hullichan's Jig - Stiles, Deanna
4. Larry O'Gaff
5. Maggie in the Woods
6. Mouth of the Tobique/R?el des Jeunes Mari?s/R?el de Montr?al
7. Lady of the Lake/Fisher's Hornpipe/Red-Haired Boy/Miss Thompson
8. Rosin the Beau/Waltz for Jane - Miller, Rodney
9. Golden Slippers
10. Crooked Stove Pipe
11. Shandon Bells/Out on the Ocean/The Lame Duck/Mug of Brown Ale
12. Fireman's Reel/Rising of the Lamprey/Silver Spear/High ... - Hydron, Sarah
13. Neil Vincent's Welcome to Earth/Pig Town Fling/Durang's Hornpipe/Peace
14. The Battering Ram/The Concertina Reel/Kiley's Reel
15. Cat in the Hooper/Coleraine/Shores of Lough Gowna
16. Amelia/Great Memories - McQuillen, Bob

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CD Details

All Artists: Choose Your Partners-Contra
Title: Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
Original Release Date: 6/22/1999
Release Date: 6/22/1999
Genres: Country, Blues, Folk, International Music, Pop
Styles: Traditional Folk, Dance Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 093074012628

Synopsis

Album Description

New Hampshire is home to a variety of time-honored music and dance traditions. This 1999 studio recording is a collection of dance tunes played by six New Hampshire groups. Built upon a blend of English, French, and Celtic influences, the music features fiddle, guitar, flute, piano, mandolin, and hammered dulcimer. Some of New Hampshire's renowned dance callers invite you to "choose your partners" and join in New England contra dancing, barn dancing, and singing squares. Produced in collaboration with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.

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CD Reviews

Music good - calls unusable

04/05/2004

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I'm from NH and have danced to these guys. Great music! The recording of the calls, however, is so poorly done that I am unable to use it in my classes. I have ended up stringing the music and recording my own calls. "Let's all Square Dance" does the job better and gives intro and instruction as well."

Best Contra Dance/Listening CD

Dianna L. Latta | Missouri | 05/08/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I just love this CD. Clear calls, great music. I always play it to put me in a good. Makes you want to tap your feet and balance and swing, do-si-do, and allemende anyway you can!"

Great Stuff

Frank Wood | Evanston, Il USA | 01/13/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I suppose I am not very sophisticated musically. And my attitude is badly distorted by an extreme fondness for New Hampshire. (I am condemned to life in the flatlands of Illinois). But I know of no CD or record I have heard that I have enjoyed more. The music is a selection of traditional music and fresh compositions in a traditional mode. All the music is presented in an extremely refreshing way.I strongly recommend it. My only regret is that the groups on this CD do not seem to be otherwise available."