Choose Your Partners! Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of New Hampshire CD

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.


     101     Farewell to Whiskey / Silver and Gold Two Step (medley)     Rodney Miller's New England Dance Band     2:36    
     102     Money Musk     Old New England     3:27    
     103     The Woman Fiddler / Munster Lass / Rock Valley / Hullichan's Jig (medley)     Old New England     3:20    
     104     Larry O' Gaff     Two Fiddles     2:47    
     105     Maggie In The Woods     Two Fiddles     3:22    
     106     Mouth of the Tobique / Réel des Jeunes Mariés / Réel de Montréal (medley)     Northern Spy     4:31    
     107     Lady of the Lake / Fisher's Hornpipe / Red-Haired Boy / Miss Thompson (medley)     Northern Spy     6:54    
     108     Rosin the Beau / Waltz for Jane (medley)     Rodney Miller's New England Dance Band     4:10    
     109     Golden Slippers     Lester Bradley and Friends     4:30    
     110     Crooked Stovepipe     Lester Bradley and Friends     3:36    
     111     Shandon Bells / Out on the Ocean / The Lame Duck / Mug of Brown Ale (medley)     Lamprey River Band     4:25    
     112     Fireman's Reel / Rising of the Lamprey / Silver Spear / High Reel / Fireman's Reel (medley)     Lamprey River Band     5:45    
     113     Neil Vincent's Welcome To Earth / Pig Town Fling / Durang's Hornpipe / Peace River Breakdown (medley)     Old New England     3:13    
     114     The Battering Ram / The Concertina Reel / Kiley's Reel (medley)     Rodney Miller's New England Dance Band     5:08    
     115     Cat in the Hopper / Coleraine / Shores of Lough Gowna (medley)     Rodney Miller's New England Dance Band     5:05    
     116     Amelia / Great Memories (medley)     Old New England     4:08