Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance and Square Dance Music of New Hampshire
produced by Lynn J. Martin, fl. 1999 (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, 1999), 1 hour 7 mins
Details
- Field of Interest
- World Music
- Description
- New Hampshire is home to a variety of time-honored music and dance traditions. This 1999 studio recording is a collection of dance tunes played by six New Hampshire groups. Built upon a blend of English, French, and Celtic influences, the music features fiddle, guitar, flute, piano, mandolin, and hammered dulcimer. Some of New Hampshire's renowned dance callers invite you to "choose your partners" and join in New England contra dancing, barn dancing, and singing squares. Produced in collaboration with the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
- Content Type
- Music recording
- Duration
- 1 hour 7 mins
- Format
- Audio
- Sub Genre
- Old Time, Square Dances and Contradances
- Label
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
- Producer
- Lynn J. Martin, fl. 1999
- Release Date
- 1999
- Subject
- World Music, American Music, Music & Performing Arts, American Studies, United States and Canada, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá, United States
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Estados Unidos y Canadá, Estados Unidos e Canadá