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

Artist	Various Artists
Format	CD
Genre	Folk
Label Name	Smithsonian Folkways
Producer	Lynn Martin
Release Date	1999 06 22
Run Time	66:11
Song List	1: Farewell to Whiskey/Silver and Gold Two Step (2:36) 2: Money Musk (3:27) 3: The Woman Fiddler/Munster Lass/Rock Valley/Hullichan's Jig (3:20) 4: Larry O'Gaff (2:47) 5: Maggie in the Woods (3:22) 6: Mouth of the Tobique/Réel des Jeunes Mariés/Réel de Montréal (4:31) 7: Lady of the Lake/Fisher's Hornpipe/Red-Haired Boy/Miss Thompson (6:54) 8: Rosin the Beau/Waltz for Jane (4:10) 9: Golden Slippers (4:30) 10: Crooked Stove Pipe (3:36) 11: Shandon Bells/Out on the Ocean/The Lame Duck/Mug of Brown Ale (4:25) 12: Fireman's Reel/Rising of the Lamprey/Silver Spear/High ... (5:45) 13: Neil Vincent's Welcome to Earth/Pig Town Fling/Durang's Hornpipe/Peace (3:13) 14: The Battering Ram/The Concertina Reel/Kiley's Reel (5:08) 15: Cat in the Hooper/Coleraine/Shores of Lough Gowna (5:05) 16: Amelia/Great Memories (4:08)
Style.Categories	Square Dance

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New Hampshire is one of the American locales in which square dancing is most popular, both in contra dances (in which two lines of partners face each other) and square dances (in which four couples arrange themselves in a square formation). This 67-minute disc has 16 tunes suitable for the purpose, recorded in early 1999 by half a dozen bands active in the New Hampshire square dancing community. It's heaviest, as you might expect, on the fiddle, also including some dulcimer, mandolin, flute, and other instrumentation. The repertoire concentrates on music derived from British Isles and Celtic folk, including reels, jigs, and a couple of slower waltzes that break up the pace nicely; some of the songs include dance callers. It's more fun to dance to than listen to, but it's well recorded and annotated, and indeed probably good fodder for practicing these styles of folk dancing. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide