MP3 Gourdvine String Band - Needlecase

This debut album features high energy dance music, waltzes, songs, and moody slow airs from the Celtic traditions of Ireland, Scotland, and Appalachia featuring fiddle, banjo, guitar, whistle, and hammered dulcimer.

19 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Appalachian Folk, FOLK: Celtic Folk

Show all album songs: Needlecase Songs


Details:
Needlecase, the debut album of the Gourdvine String Band, features Old-Time, Celtic, and original music from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Band members: Ellen Snyder Nagase (fiddle, guitar, vocals), EJ Burke (banjo, mandolin, guitar), Manabu Nagase (guitar, fiddle, bass), Lyt Wood (hammered dulcimer, banjo), Rannie Winn (whistles, vocals).

We especially love to play for dances, and Needlecase includes many great dance tunes and sets. The title track combines four great tunes into a dance set that builds energy from start to finish and leaves you with your toes tapping.

There is some variety to this album â from a zippy rendition of âQuince Dillonâs High Dâ to the slow and gorgeous âCrested Hensâ. Ellen Snyder Nagaseâs vocal talents are featured on the lovely âFair Flower of Northumberlandâ and the amazing âPaddyâs Lamentationâ â an Irish-American-Civil War-Protest song. Two original tunes composed by Lyt Wood add their own special quality to this CD.

If you like your music lively and straightforward with a twinkle in the eye (like its Celtic-Appalachian originators), you will love Needlecase.