If you're "our" Heather Burch, I know I would give it lots of stars. MH

Heather is such a natural musician. She plays with grace, care, and love. If you read this Heather, please write me and send me your address so I can fill you in on some changes!!! (marylcohen@gmail.com)

The start is hypnotic and peaceful and revealing. The Irish notes are genuine. Wonderful.

The liner notes claims: "Red Haired Boy/Lonesome Fiddle Blues arranged by Tom Bryan. All other pieces created by Heather Burch Adrian". "Red Haired Boy" and "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" are both traditional tunes and I suspect some of the others are also. I've found "Forget Me Not Waltz" as a title in some lists of old songs and the tune with that title that Adrian provides is almost identical to the one supplied by Martin Hoffman to the Woody Guthrie poem "Deportees". What New Age should be more often! Moving, evocative, exciting, sometimes humorous, instrumental expression that relaxes and feeds the soul. Two spoken poems are also included. The musical sounds include warm classical, blues full of blue notes, sparkling bluegrass, and lively Celtic, sometimes separate, sometimes tightly fused in a single piece. A modern classical tinge touches almost all the tracks, lending restraint and dignity to the folk rhythms without loss to vigor and color that too often accompaines classical influence. Anyone who enjoys the O'Connor/Ma/Meyer _Appalachia_Waltz_ and _Appalachian_Journey_ CDs should like this for its similar flavor. Adrian is less sophisticated but more direct and beautifully simple in her approach. The piano tunes in particular are in the vein of Mychael Danna's "romantic minimalism". The marching snare-drum percussion, mixed with a bit of bongo-drum, on "Angus and the Coffee Bean" is a special delight.