Impropriety Volume 2 - CD

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RogueryRoguery

Dave Bartley, Shira Kammen, Anita Anderson, Jim Oakden

This CD includes most of the English country dances published in Impropriety Volume II, the Country Dances of Brooke Friendly and Chris Sackett, performed by the band Roguery.

Roguery is: Anita Anderson (piano, voice, accordion, cittern) and Dave Bartley (guitars, cittern, mandolin, tenor banjo, voice) from Seattle, WA, Jim Oakden (recorders, clarinets, tenor banjo, whistle, guitar, mandolin, accordion) from Santa Cruz, CA, and Shira Kammen (fiddle, viola, vielle, medieval harp) from Berkeley, CA, who met in the Rogue Valley of Oregon to record this album.

The band's varied influences include English, contra, early music, classical, Breton, Scottish, Irish, Cape Breton, Galician, French, Balkan, jazz-fusion, gospel, Scandinavian, and Greek.

Brooke Friendly joins the band on tracks 5 (zils), 10 (drum and bells), 16 (drum), and 22 (voice).

How to order

Full album or individual tracks available for purchase as digital download from Digstation (you may also hear clips from each tune).

Available for purchase as digital download or CD on CD Baby.

To order CD from the Country Dance and Song Society (if you're a member you get a 10% discount), go to their online store, email sales@cdss.org or call 413-268-7426 ext. 2 (open 9:30AM - 5PM (Eastern time), Monday through Friday).

In the UK, it is available from Folk Sales/Derek and Ann Appleing.

Tracks:

  • 1. Mendocino Cure - tune by Dave Bartley 2007
  • 2. MacQueen's Jig - tune: "Two in a Gig" (Traditional Irish)
  • 3. Alder Cove - tune: "Riding to Shoreline" by Dave Bartley 2004
  • 4. Daybreak - tune: "Hunan Hornpipe" by Jonathan Jensen 2007
  • 5. The Dancing Betty (stately) - tune arranged from "A Health to Betty" Playford 1651 by Chris Sackett 2007
  • 6. The Dancing Betty (lively)
  • 7. Larkin Grace - tune: "O Son do ar" by Bieito Romero
  • 8. The Play's the Thing - tune: "The Fresh Jug" (Traditional Irish)
  • 9. Remembrance - tune by Dave Bartley 2007
  • 10. An Improper Notion - tune arranged from 16th-century branles by Chris Sackett 2006
  • 11. Through the Looking Glass - tune: "Downstream" by Shira Kammen 2002
  • 12. Yakima Rim - tune by Dave Bartley 2004
  • 13. Chocolate for Breakfast - tune: "Top o' the Mornin'" by Jonathan Jensen 2007
  • 14. Snow Day - tune: "Snowbound" by Dave Bartley 2007
  • 15. Tributary - tune: "Flaxley Green Dance" (Traditional English)
  • 16. Scales of Justice - tune by Shira Kammen 2006
  • 17. Trim the Sails - tune: "The Wishing Well" (Traditional Irish)
  • 18. Birthday at Pinewoods - tune: "Ripples on the Pond" by Jonathan Jensen 2007
  • 19. Hey Baby Hey - tune: "Whatever You Like" by Jonathan Jensen 2007
  • 20. Joint Effort - tune by Chris Sackett 2006
  • 21. Hazelfern Place - tune: "La Maison de Glace" by Rejean Brunet 1997
  • 22. Pear Blossom - tune: "A Christmas Jig" (Anonymous)