Instruments

 

 Voice, guitar, piano, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, bass, recorder, and others.

 

Performance Repertoire

  • Music for Dancing. Solo guitar. Solo Fiddle.
  • The music of families, children, and of people from a diversity of cultures.
  • Traditional music of the U.S.A., the British Isles, English and French Canada, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and various pieces from many nations.
  • Popular music of the U.S.A. from 1784 to the present.
  • Step Dance of the Southern Appalachians and Quebec
  • My own compositions: Instrumental pieces, rounds, choral works, and songs.

 

Styles of Dance Taught

  • Square Dances of the 19th century.
  • Square Dances 1930 to 1950, and my own compositions in the style.
  • New England Contra Dances, traditional and modern.
  • British Barn Dances.
  • Quebecois Traditional Dance.
  • Quebecois Gigue and Appalachian Clog Dance.
  • Old-Fashioned Couple Dance.

 

 

PERFORMANCES (a sampling)

 

Dance Camps

  • Fiddle and Dance Camp at Ashokan: Northern, Southern, Western & Swing, and Teachers' Weeks, Olive Bridge, NY
  • Pinewoods Camp: Folk, Family, Campers, English-American, and American Weeks, Plymouth, MA
  • Contra Dance Musician Week, John C Campbell Folk School, Beasstown, NC
  • BACDSS Family Week, Gualala, CA
  • Camp Wannadance, Seattle, WA
  • Country Dance College, Atlanta, GA
  • Raincoast Rucus, Vancouver, BC
  • Moosejaw Dance Weekend, MI
  • Michigan Fall Dance Weekend, M
  • Callers Intensive Workshop, Guest Instructor on Teaching and Musicality. Coppenhagen, Denmark
  • Between the Bays Dance Week, London, England

 Festivals (U.S.A.)

  •   The Philadelphia Folk Festival, Schwenksville, PA
  •   The Brandywine Folk Festival, Brandywine, PA
  •   The Hudson River Revival, NY
  •   The Eisteddfod, MA
  •   The Middletown Folk Festival , Red Bank NJ

 Festivals (International)

  • Mariposa Folk Festival, Toronto, Canada
  • The Shetland Folk Festival, Shetland Islands, Great  Britain
  • International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, Wales, Great    Britain
  • Rzeszow international Festival, Poland

All of my Publications as free PDFs


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Quebecois Dance Tues
A collection of 230 Dance tunes from Quebec.
Quebec Tunes 4.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 53.8 MB
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Trad American Lyrics with Chords
Traditional Lyrics with Chords.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 202.3 KB
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Rounds Canons and Partner Songs
68 of ny rounds, Canons, and Partner Songs.
A book of Rounds small less blurbs.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 10.1 MB
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The Complete Rounds and Canons of Joseph Haydn
58 rounds and Canons of Joseph Haydn translated into English. Difficulty ranges from simple to expert level. Includes his Canonic versions of the Ten Commandments suitalbe for Choral groupbl
Haydn Rounds 4.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 20.6 MB
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Harmonixed Waltzes, a Curious Collection
Includes Tunes,Songs, and Rounds suitablle for waltzing. and the unique partner waltzes which harmonize when played together.
Harmonized Waltzes.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 18.9 MB
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Tune Sets for Contra Dances
100 Dances tunes arranged as medlies for note readers who want to play for Contra Dancing.
Family Tunes latest Sized.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 9.8 MB
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Play Parties and Singing Games
A selection of traditional play parties and singing games with music.
Play Parties and Singing Games.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 22.1 MB
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Resources for Musical Communities
A selection of arrangements to help integrate students taking music leeons into the elementary music classroom.
Rexources Suzu Book.pdf
Adobe Acrobat Document 18.2 MB