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CDs: Fly Down You Little Bird | Can't Hold the Wheel | No Time To Tarry Vineyard | Signs and Wonders | Here Below The Waxwing Four | Stomping Ground Song Licenses: Small, Standard, Unlimited
Books: A Word From The Field
Fly Down You Little Bird
A follow up to 2013's 'Can't Hold The Wheel', 'Fly Down' continues to reimagine traditional ballads.
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$12.00 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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the songs:
- Pretty Saro
- Foreignlander
- Undone in Sorrow
- Henry Lee
- Pisgah
- Goin' 'Cross the Mountain
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the band:
Brendan — vocals, guitar, banjo, mbira, electric guitar (4), shruti box
Mark Roberts — banjo, gourd banjo, film canister, kanjira
Colin McCaffrey — electric guitar
Corey DiMario — bass
with Mia Bertelli — harmony vocals
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The New Line • Can't Hold the Wheel
Bringing together African and old-time music with a marriage of mbira and gourd banjo, The New Line reimagines traditional Appalachian ballads.
Check out some recent reviews here.
No Time To Tarry
The fourth and final recording from the Bright Wings Chorus is a collection of original works that spans both elegy and celebration, personal and political. Recorded with special guest Larry Gordon.
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$15.00 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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the songs:
- Vermillion
- Syria
- Glencolmcille
- I Cross Til I Am Weary
- My Heart Will Bow
- Heartland
- Joy Will Bring Me To Your Arms
- Holman
- Aleppo
- America
- Bamidon
- Like Stars Our Bones Shall Fly
- Ten Thousand Charms
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the singers:
Meg Chittenden
Elsie Gawler
Emily Thompson
Mia Bertelli
Sarah Gibson
Rachel Gordon
Addie Rose Holland
Stephen Higa
Wheaton Squier
Brendan Taaffe
Mason Gohl
Casey Steinberg
Special Guest: Larry Gordon
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Vineyard
Beautiful, soulful singing from the Bright Wings gang, recorded on Martha's Vineyard at the end of a four-day group retreat.
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$15.00 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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the songs:
- Laurieston
- Moab
- Way Out On the Mountain
- April Rain Song (listen)
- You May Stand Mute
- Mountains Now Are Dancing
- Cameron
- Mt. Tabor
- Gilead (listen)
- Beyond Your Chariots
- Home Is The Sailor
- May You See Diamonds
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the singers:
Kimaya Diggs
Emily Thompson
Rachel Gordon
Mia Bertelli
Addie Rose Holland
Sarah Gibson
Brendan Taaffe
Conor Weiss
Adam Jacob Simon
Mason Gohl
Casey Steinberg
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Signs and Wonders
The second collection of songs by The Bright Wings Chorus, including original shape note songs, traditional American ballads, and contemporary choral pieces.
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$15 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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the songs
- Marching to Zion
- Greenwood Lake
- Sophia
- Harlemville
- Millbrook
- Seems Like to Me
- Lord, Build Me a Cabin
- Better Day A-Comin'
- Come Love Away (listen)
- When He Passed Over
- Awake, Awake
- When the World Comes to an End
- Bright Wings
- Abbeystead
- Prospect
- Inman
- Old North End
- Superior (listen)
- The Wheel
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the singers:
Rachel Gordon
Addie Rose Holland
Sarah Gibson
Mia Bertelli
Emily Thompson
Erica Morse
Julia Wayne
Leighanne Saltsman
Gideon Crevoshay
Wheaton Squier
Brendan Taaffe
Adam Jacob Simon
Mason Gohl
special guest: Carter Stowell
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What People are Saying:
"I've been recovering from a concussion for the past several months, which means that I need to sleep A LOT. Signs and Wonders has been a huge comfort, and is my go-to when I'm exhausted and need to recover. I arise more powerful and healed than I was when I lay down."
"1000x better than listening to the annoying guy next to me on the bus. . ."
Here Below
A collection of original shape note songs, composed from 2003–2011. Recorded live in August, 2011 amidst lots of wine and laughter with nine friends at the Old Meeting House, Montpelier, Vermont.
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$15 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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the songs
- Deep Springs
- Arkansas
- East Pond
- Rochestown
- August
- Kilfenora
- What are they doing in Heaven today?
- Wester Caputh (listen)
- The Grieved Soul
- Chasm Lake
- Weatherhead
- Wenlock
- Agawa Bay
- White (listen)
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the singers:
Adam Jacob Simon
Mason Gohl
Gideon Crevoshay
Wheaton Squier
Brendan Taaffe
Rachel Gordon
Addie Rose Holland
Katie Trautz
Julia Wayne
Emily Steelehurst Thompson
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What People are Saying:
"My husband and I joke about 'talking each other down' when things get too crazy and overwhelming, especially the things you can't control, no matter how you try. I might need to listen to your song Wester Caputh daily. There is so much hope and joy and certainty in that tune: it sings me down."
"I was walking the boardwalk at lunchtime and felt I was about to join the seagulls in flight listening to your CD on my ipod! There's such a sense of sheer beauty and joy in it."
"If you are moved by the sacred, if you need music that takes hold of your bones and won't let go, you should own a copy of Here Below. It's simply the most powerful stuff I've heard in a long time and I don't know what to do with it except tell you over and over that you must have it."
The Bright Wings Combo Pack: all four albums (No Time To Tarry, Vineyard, Here Below and Signs and Wonders) $48 (US) plus $10.50 shipping / handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
The Waxwing Four
Tight, joyful male a cappella harmony from early American traditions—jubilee gospel, bluegrass quartets, and Appalachian folk hymns.
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$15.00 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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Track List
- My Lord is Writing
- Devotion
- Glacier
- I Wanna Go To Heaven And Rest
- This Is A Mean World
- Joys Above His Power
- Turtle Dove
- Get Right Church
- Sister, Thou Art Mild And Lovely
- Deep River (listen)
- One Morning Soon
- Old Ship of Zion
- The Old Churchyard
- What Are They Doing in Heaven? (listen)
- Starfish and Coffee
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The Waxwing Four are:
Wheaton Squier, first tenor
Brendan Taaffe, second tenor
Adam Jacob Simon, baritone
Stefan Amidon, bass
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Magic Foot: Stomping Ground
Recorded in the spring of 2009, this is Magic Foot's first full length album. On it, we bring together traditional Irish music, a few foreign visitors, and some poignant songs. Lauded by Brian Conway as "tasteful, soulful music."
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Colin Lindsay - fiddle, concertina, harmony vocals
Chris Stevens - button accordion
Brendan Taaffe - guitar, vocals
Stefan Amidon - percission, mandolin, harmony vocals
$7 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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- Devanney's Goat / O'Dowd's Favorite / Tom Ward's Downfall
- Pidder a Dreska / Hawthorn Hedge / O'Sullivan's March
- Farewell to Fiunary
- Goat Dance
- Mary and the Soldier
- En Flandres / Canal En Octobre
- Flatbush Waltz
- Lark in the Morning / When the Cock Crows, It is Day
- Phyllis's Birthday / Palmer's Gate / Road to Errogie (listen)
- Eunice Two-Step
What the Reviews are Saying:
"Their sound is that of musicians who really enjoy playing together. The arrangements are not bombastic but wonderfully played, with all the necessary pulse and drive intact. As I listened to this wonderful collection of lovely songs and tunes, I was transported back to the classic Sunday ceilidh performances at the Philadelphia Folk Festival [...] Many thanks to Magic Foot for helping me reconnect with a very special time in my life."
— Sing Out!
Song Licenses
I do ask for a licensing fee if you are teaching or performing my works. To purchase a license, please visit the Turtle Dove Harmony Song Licensing page.
A Word From the Field
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A collection of six essays that explore the intersection of art, nature, and personal experience.
If you're interested, you can read an essay about my trip to Alaska.
$20 (US) plus $4.50 shipping/handling to the U.S. Vermont residents pay 6% sales tax
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