Mary Cay Brass’s piano flair is renowned in the thriving contra dance community of Northern New England. She is joined here by the best women musicians from the Connecticut Valley dance scene.
The result is exhilaratingly melodic and merrily pulsing contra music at its best. Playing tunes from Irish and Quebecois reels to a Scandinavian snoa and a Bulgarian kopanica, they celebrate the joy, vitality and diveristy of New England contra music.
THE BAND
- Mary Cay Brass – piano, accordion
- Becky Ashendon – upright bass
- Sarah Blair – fiddle
- Susan Conger – fiddle
- Mary Lea – fiddle
- Ann Percival – guitar
- Becky Tracy – fiddle
TRTACK LISTING:
- Cook in the Kitchen, Dusty Windowsills, Mooncoin
- Reel Traditionelle, Reel Traditionelle, St. Antoine's
- Iles de la Madeleine
- The Green Mountain, Tarboltan, Siobhan O'Donnell's
- New Delhi
- Clare Jig, Mist on the Mountain, Liam O'Flynn's
- Jersey Lightening, Hippodrome Reel, Viva el West Side or Dedicado a Joe
- Topphuvv'leken
- Jules Verret, Reel de Mattawa, La Belle Gaspesie
- Phil Cunningham's, The Dawn
- Pipe on the Hob, Log Cabin, Hanley's Tweed
- Waltzes from Jarna, Gas Anders Waltz
- Oj Ti Mome
