Santa Cruz, California is the home of barefoot hemp-wearing earth-mamas, world-famous surf breaks, and mossy redwood forests of epic proportions. Down on Pacific Street you see everything from bass-thumping Chicano low riders to panhandler addicts with cats riding on their shoulders. And of course the Umbrella Man who walks the street wearing all pink and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘viola’
Luke Abbott: Take Me Home (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, banjo, dobro, fiddle, male singer, old-time, traditional, viola, tagged acoustic, banjo, dobro, fiddle, male singer, old-time, traditional, viola on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Childsplay: Waiting for the Dawn (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, Celtic, classical, female singer, fiddle, flute, viola, tagged acoustic, cello, Celtic, classical, female singer, fiddle, flute, viola on September 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My hard-core old-time folkie readers might want to pass on this one, but if the idea of a large group of fiddlers playing together on fiddle tunes and folk songs sounds good to you, then read on. Childsplay is a group united by the instruments of violin maker Bob Childs of Cambridge, Massachussetts. Their fifth [...]
Väsen Street (MP3)
Posted in acoustic, fiddle, nyckelharpa, Scandinavian, traditional, viola, world, tagged acoustic, fiddle, nyckelharpa, Scandinavian, traditional, viola, world on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Swedish folk supergroup Väsen will release Väsen Street (NorthSide) on August 18, 2009. Olov Johansson (nyckelharpa), Roger Tallroth (guitar) and Mikael Marin (viola) have toured together for 20 years and are celebrating the milestone with this new recording. The repertoire here consists of newly composed material, old Väsen favorites not recorded earlier, and some traditional [...]



