Songbook

The Laduvane Songbook - Balkan singing for everybody
You can sing Balkan music. Slavic folksongs for everybody!
This songbook was published by the a cappella Balkan ensemble Laduvane in 1977, after we'd made our first recording. It's amazing the difference one person can make. Recently a woman named Chris emailed me and said she'd lost her original copy of the book, could she purchase another? I went digging around the house looking for one, and finally found one - just one - and it was in pieces, hidden away in a folder in my daughter's room. It was not quite complete. I must have xeroxed it for some...

Let Memory Keep Us All: a songbook, and a remembrance
66 songs to sing in harmony: choral arrangements for folksong lovers
This is a picture of Mitzi, Mona, and Sandy at the Medieval Fair at the Castle McCullough in Jamestown, NC, back in the 1990s, wearing nice outfits we sewed out of cloth we dyed ourselves. There were usually about sixteen people in the Solstice Assembly, a mainly a cappella ensemble. Everybody had a busy professional life elsewhere but we made three recordings and performed at Piccolo Spoleto and an annual "Solstice Extravaganza," which was a little like the Christmas Revels except it includ...

Yiddish songs: I can't complain but sometimes I still do
Yiddish songbook and cd - you can sing along!
Hannukah is early this year, so I'm excited to have published this songbook and cd of Yiddish music in time - they'd make unique Hanukkah gifts! 'I Can't Complain - but sometimes I still do" is a collection published in November 2010 of some of my very favorite Yiddish songs (and one in Hebrew), sung with fiddle, concertina, and the wonderful pianist Aviva Enoch. I'm also very amused by the picture I painted for this album. People keep asking "what are those animals saying?" so: the dog is ...