Celtic Diaspora

Sheep Barn

with Grosse Isle*, Cantrip, and John Kirk & Trish Miller

Lilies by the Tracks

Sheep Barn

with Jim Gaudet & the Railroad Boys*, and Low Lily

Advancing Trad

Sheep Barn

with Sara Milonovich* & Daisycutter, and The Gawler Sisters with Ethan Tischler & Bennett Konesni

Celtic Jam

Sheep Barn

with Cantrip

Grosse Isle

Sheep Barn

Performance — Québécois Music to Enchant.

Bowing 747 with George Wilson

Sheep Barn

A talented multi-instrumentalist and singer, George Wilson samples a wide variety of traditional and folk styles. As a fiddler, he has over 500 tunes for dancing and listening—tunes from New England, Quebec, Cape Breton, Scotland, Ireland, and Shetland. His dynamic fiddling, strongly influenced by Cape Breton and French Canadian styles, has been popular with contra […]

Songs of the Adirondacks with Jamcrackers

Sheep Barn

Dan Berggren, Peggy Lynn, and Dan Duggan have combined talents to create Jamcrackers, named in honor of the river drivers who broke up log jams. Those drivers worked hard to find solutions, to get things rolling again, and they couldn’t do the job alone. These three feel the same way about their music. With guitars […]

Mandinka Musical Culture with the Great Gambian Griots

Sheep Barn

Documentary style video on traditional Mandinka music and the cultural world of Mandinka traditional oral historian-musicians known as “griots.”  Including: Kora duets, wooden-keyed xylophone and 3-string bass kora, women’s bell, drumming discussion and demonstration, dancing, kora teaching, and traditional story-telling.   Forty-eight years ago, Alhaji Bai Konte brought the music of the kora (Mandinka harp) […]

French songs not from France and Songs from France not in French with Windborne

Sheep Barn

Windborne is a group of vocal chameleons who specialize in close harmony singing, shifting effortlessly between drastically different styles of traditional music within the same concert. Their musical knowledge spans many continents and cultures, but they remain deeply rooted in American folk-singing traditions. Lynn Mahoney Rowan, Will Thomas Rowan, Lauren Breunig, and Jeremy Carter-Gordon share […]