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Nightingale : Sometimes When the Moon is High
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Vermont based trio whose songs and tunes travel from Newfoundland and Quebec to Northern Europe
Genre: Folk: Traditional Folk
Release Date: 1996
Sometimes When the Moon is High Record Label: Midnight music
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Preview Song Name Time Format Price Select
Ballygow/The Bus Stop/MacDonald's 4:08 $0.99
The Tinker Behind the Door/Snug in a Blanket 4:07 $0.99
The Joker's Pulska/Breton Gavottes 3:08 $0.99
J'entends le Moulin/Louis Cyr 4:00 $0.99
The Discharged Drummer 5:08 $0.99
Breton Suite Pourlet/The Alley II 4:22 $0.99
Tippy get your Haircut/Rickey's White Face/Florence Kelly's 5:19 $0.99
Canaday I O/The Farrier/Plutos in Scorpio 5:21 $0.99
Bury Me Not in the Deep Deep Sea 4:01 $0.99
Reel D'Issoudun/La Grondeuse 4:14 $0.99
Ma Commere, Ma Mie/Retour de Montaignac 4:19 $0.99
Sur la Route de Dijon 4:04 $0.99
Soul of the Limestone Rock 3:02 $0.99
Eugene O'Donnell/Bea Mae's/Tuttle's/Lady Ann Montgomery 5:30 $0.99
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Album Notes

Over the past decade the three superb musicians who make up Nightingale, Becky Tracy (fiddle), Jeremiah McLane (piano, accordion), and Keith Murphy (guitar, mandolin, foot percussion, vocals), have charmed audiences with their vibrant and imaginative explorations of musical traditions that carry listeners across New England to Quebec, Newfoundland, Ireland, France, and beyond.
Hailed in Sing Out! Magazine for their "impeccable playing...danceable and exciting, with a reflective approach to the music", Nightingale has fashioned a fresh and distinctive sound that is innovative while rooted in Celtic and Northern European folk traditions. From a Newfoundland ballad to a blazing set of Irish reels, from a rollicking Quebecois chanson-a-repondre to a lilting bourree from Central France, their song and tune arrangements find the perfect balance between tradition and innovation

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