WINTERDANCE
From upbeat instrumentals to unaccompanied carols, Winterdance
celebrates the timeless turning of the season at year's end. This haunting new live album features guest vocalist Moira Smiley singing six previously unrecorded songs from our Christmas celebrations, as well as three additional studio tracks that were previously available only by download. Ten percent of the profits from Winterdance will be donated to the ALS foundation (Lou Gehrig's disease). Our last Christmas album, Yuledance, generated over $3000 for Leukemia/Lymphoma Society and Aplastic Anemia/MDS Foundation.
Preview Winterdance:
PLANXTY MISS MAXWELL
GREENSLEEVES
THE BLACK SPORRAN
The Musicians:
Moira Smiley: vocals, accordion
David Brewer: highland pipes, uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhran, bones
John Weed: fiddles, vocals
Pete Haworth: bouzouki, vocals
Stuart Mason: guitar, mandola, vocals
The Tracks:
Greensleeves
My Love My Pride
Planxty Miss Maxwell
Auld Lang Syne
The Lilting Set
The Wexford Carol
The Russian's Welcome to Charley
(Bonus Tracks)
Strathpolkas
The Regular Army
The Black Sporran
Moira Smiley
Guest vocalist Moira Smiley travels the world as a soloist in Early and Traditional music and creates new work with dance, theatre and film. While immersing herself in a cappella folk song from Eastern Europe and various other vibrant harmony traditions, she continues to study Irish sean nos (old-style) singing and Appalachian ballad and dance-song. She recorded a solo CD, Rua, of Irish, Appalachian and her own songs (rua means red in Gaelic). With VOCO, her fiery roots vocal-band, Moira fuses a new sound with voices, banjo, cello and percussion that is rooted in traditional song.
"Moira Smiley's songs are captivating, holding the listener enchanted with their telling, and her rich voice captures the essence of great traditional singing." --Shay Black of the legendary Black family
"They bring to the music a vital and joyous creativity that excites even the hardest of hearts." --John Doyle