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Artist Guide » Folk » Traditional Folk » SKYELARK: Celtic Gold

Holly Williams (hammered dulcimer) has performed traditional music for over 20 years and plays regularly for contra dances and weddings in the Denver area. Holly produced her own instrumental and vocal recording "Notes From Home" in 1990 for which she did all the arrangements. Sandy Reay (bass) is a singer/songwriter and bass player. Sandy has performed at the Swallow Hill Music Association, the Comedy Club, the 1994 and 1997 Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival Songwriter's Showcase, the Music Folk, and Folkal Point in St. Louis. John (Jake) Jacobs (cittern, guitar, mandolin) helped form the Bermuda Folk Music club in the sixties, performed on two albums with the folk group Cornucopia in Maryland in the eighties, and has been playing music ever since. Holly and Jake produced their first Celtic album "Tried and True" in 1998 and SkyeLark produced an old time album "Dancing Down the Moon" in 1999 and a Celtic Christmas album "Turning of the Year" in 2000.

Check out the artist's website:
http://www.skyelark.org

Track List:
1. Da Full Rigged Ship/da New Rigged Ship
2. Slockit Light
3. Jig of Slurs/athol Highlanders
4. Scotland the Brave/flowers of Edinborough
5. Lord Inchiquin
6. Smash the Windows/merrily Kiss the Quaker
7. Liberty/over the Waterfall
8. George Brabazon
9. Butterfly/kesh Jig/morrisons
10. Dennis Murphy's/john Ryans/the Rose Tree
11. Road to Listonvarner/swallowtail
12. O'carolins Quarrel
13. Kid On the Mountain/larry O'gaff/gary Owen
14. Lams Fold Valley/rakes of Mallow/tam Lin
15. Boys of Blue Hill/morpeth Rant

Suggested CDs:

Distant Oaks

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