Folk Music & Beyond Thank-You Gifts

for the Spring 2012 Pledge Drive

Support Folk Music & Beyond and pledge this Saturday between 3 and 5 P.M. by calling (800) 525-9917 or online at kalw.org and select any of the following thank-you gifts:

For a pledge of $70, any one of these CDs:

The Chieftains, Voice of Ages

  1. Carolina Rua [Imelda May]
  2. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies [Pistol Annies]
  3. Pretty Little Girl [Carolina Chocolate Drops]
  4. Down in the Willow Garden [Bon Iver]
  5. Lily Love [The Civil Wars]
  6. The Lark in the Clear Air / Olam Punch [Punch Brothers]
  7. My Lagan Love [Lisa Hannigan]
  8. When the Ship Comes In [The Decemberists]
  9. School Days Over [The Low Anthem]
  10. The Frost Is All Over [Punch Brothers]
  11. Peggy Gordon [The Secret Sisters]
  12. Hard Times Come Again No More [Paolo Nutini]
  13. The Chieftains [REUNION]
  14. The Chieftains in Orbit with NASA Astronaut [Cady Coleman]
  15. Lundu [Carlos Nunez]
   

A collection of well-known Irish and American folk ballads performed in collaboration with up-and-coming musicians such as Bon Iver, the Decemberists, Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Civil Wars, Imelda May, Chris Thile, and the Punch Brothers. Contemporary takes on old familiar favorites, melded with the Chieftains' excellent accompaniment.

 

 

Carolina Chocolate Drops, Leaving Eden

  
  1. Riro's House
  2. Kerr's Negro Jig
  3. Ruby, Are You Mad at Your Man?
  4. Boodle-De-Bum-Bum
  5. Country Girl
  6. Run Mountain
  7. Leaving Eden
  8. Read 'em John
  9. Mahalla
  10. West End Blues
  11. Po' Black Sheep
  12. I Truly Understand That You Love Another Man
  13. No Man's Mama
  14. Briggs' Corn Shucking Jig / Camptown Hornpipe
  15. Pretty Bird

The follow-up CD to their 2010 Grammy-winning recording. This virtuosic young trio explores traditional roots and old-time string music from the Appalachias and the old South. Produced by Buddy Miller, Leaving Eden is a collection of original songs inspired by southern roots music, minstrelsy songs, and tunes by Joe Thompson, Hazel Dickens, and Etta Baker.

 

 

Loreena McKennitt, Troubadors on the Rhine

  1. Bonny Portmore
  2. Down by the Sally Gardens
  3. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
  4. Between the Shadows
  5. The Lady of Shalott
  6. The Stolen Child
  7. Penelope's Song
  8. The Bonny Swans
  9. The Parting Glass
   

A live concert recorded in 2010 in Mainz, Germany. Loreena McKennitt and her trio perform some old favorites along with well-known traditional songs, inspired by Celtic traditions and done in her compelling, mesmerizing style.

 

 

For a pledge of $180, all three CDs (listed above).