Under The Winter Moon

About the Artist
Susan saw her first hammered dulcimer in the spring of 1995 while vacationing in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Unable to forget what she saw, she acquired her own dulcimer a few months later and began learning to play by imitating what she heard on recordings of traditional American and Celtic music. Over the years her passion for the instrument and traditional music has led her on a rich journey of performing and teaching.   Susan has been invited to teach and perform at numerous festivals including the Cork Dulcimer Festival in Ireland, South West Dulcimer Festival in Dewey, AZ, The Swannanoa Gathering, Asheville, NC, Bay Path Dulcimer Festival in Northborough, MA, Cranberry Dulcimer Gathering, Binghamton, NY, the Winston-Salem Dulcimer Festival in Winston-Salem NC and many others. She is also very active the local music community where she performs, teaches lessons, and conducts workshops.   Susan is the founder of the Yorkville Music Weekend. This new music gathering emerged from Susan’s desire to bring musicians together, to provide space for them to share their talents with each other and to perpetuate the tradition of folk music in her hometown of York, SC. The event began with hammered dulcimers, but has expanded to include multi-instrument workshops and jams.   Susan’s solo recording Wateree was released June 2001 and features traditional American, international folk and original tunes, accompanied by Albert Dulin (fiddles, mandolin), Ken Kolodner (fiddle, hammered dulcimer), Dan Bright (fiddle), and Fred McKinney (guitar).

Her playing has been described as creative, expressive, versatile and ". . . so purely beautiful it will give you chills." Kerry Anderson, Gila Mountain Dulcimers.

Susan’s original tune "Garden Café Waltz" was featured in the Feb 2002 Dulcimer Player News Magazine and was chosen to be re-released (August 2002) on an Oasis CD "Acoustic Sampler" recording and distributed to over 500 radio stations nation-wide.   Susan has been selected to serve on the Arts and Science Council Talent Bureau 2004. She is also a performing member of Indiegrrl. Indiegrrl criterion for being chosen is simple: "the music must be exceptional, no matter where in your career you are." She is a recipient of a Regional Artist Grant from the North Carolina Arts and Science Council, a member of Fiddle and Bow, World Folk Music Association, the Triangle Folk Society, the Baltimore Folk Society and served on the Charlotte Folk Society Board of Directors in 2003.   During the summer months Susan is a full-time musician and spends much of her time teaching and performing. However, during the remainder of the year, she is also a full time faculty member in Engineering Technology at a local Technical College where she has taught since 1986.

Product Description:
Under the Winter Moon is an extraodinary, soothing journey through the winter moonlight via hammered dulcimer! Susan plays beautiful, original arrangements of traditional, seasonal, and original music on hammered dulcimer accompanied by fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, concertina, and bass.

Under The Winter Moon,Susan Vinson Sherlock,Susan Vinson Sherlock,Original arrangements of seasonal original, and traditional tunes on hammered dulcimer. This recording is an extraordinary, soothing journey through the winter moon light via hammered dulcimer.

Average customer rating: A delicately imaginative journey From The Isles To The Courts A Musical Feast

From The Isles To The Courts Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Marais | Marais, Marin | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ensemble Galilei | ( E ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Celtic New Age | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music New Age | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Fusion | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World The Mystic & The Muse Music In The Great Hall: Instrumental Music From The Ancient Celtic Lands Following the Moon An Ancient Muse ASIN: B0000584Y8 Release Date: 2001-01-23

Tracks:

1. Cantigas 7 And 338
2. Scollay's Reel/King Of The Fairies/Old Grey Cat/The Dance Goes On
3. Winter's Falling Light
4. Sinfonie And Musette From L'Isle De Delos
5. Callanish/Under The Full Moon
6. Anna's Garden
7. Home Fires/The Burning Of The Clavie/The Burning Of The Clavie Reel
8. Lake Skybelow
9. La Folia Variations
10. Sgt. Early's Dream/Tune For Kieran
11. Fanny Poer/Mary O'Neill's
12. Aisling
13. The Lady Of The Lake
14. Miss Maxwell/Bridget Cruise/O'Carolan's Welcome
15. The Fair Maid Of Barra/Dream Angus

Customer Reviews:

A delicately imaginative journey.......2002-11-29

Touching on the Celtic, the Renaissance and the Baroque, these six women interweave them into sumptuous improvisations. Ensemble Galilei consists of Liz Knowles on fiddle, Deborah Nuse on bagpipes and fiddle, Sarah Weiner on oboe, recorders and whistle, Sue Richards on harp, Carolyn Ann Surrick on gamba, and Jan Hagiwara on percussion. Their sound ranges from musing to celebratory and airy to earthy, but is characterized always by the easy elegance of musicians who have mastered their instruments. The musicians have this to say about themselves: "We are committed to making music fiercely. We find music that speaks deeply to us, and we honor the traditions and dialects of each musical language... We find the place where our personal history intersects the melody, bass, harmony or chords. Revealed in these musical conversations are the essential parts of our own humanity." This recording showcases feminine creativity in all its rousing and subtle beauty! Ensemble Galilei has two other recordings that I know of so far: "Come, Gentle Night: Music of Shakespeare's World" on the TELARC label, and "The Mystic and the Muse: Celebrating 600 Years of Women in Music" from Dorian.

From The Isles To The Courts.......2001-05-08

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It's very exciting to follow a group of musicians on their journey together, especially when that journey is made with heart, with fire, and with honor to tradition. Original tunes make easy friends with the traditional on this must-have CD. Love the Scollay's medley, for example, with The Dance Goes On as the last tune. It all works really well! The high quality of the sound itself, the strength of the original compositions, the sparkling arrangements and attention paid to choice of material all make this in my opinion the best EG so far. As a whole, it's great, but there are individual jewels here-- the mysterious Anna's Garden, the tender Cantigas, Liz Knowle's masterful delivery on anything, for example. Sue Richard's Aisling is just the best Sue Richards composition I've gotten to know yet. This piece provides a sumptuous musical (and magical) adventure, full of ideas to play with. Her work gives an added dimension to the collection. If you don't think Ensemble Galilei's work is groundbreaking, ask for this CD in your favorite music department, and watch the guy run around trying to figure out how it's categorized for display! It's really fun. "Ensemble Galilei...That's baroque, right? No! Should be under Celtic...no... uh, folk? Classical? Ensembles? Well, international? Okay, here it is, 'New!' Try it out, it's on the wall." No wonder he has trouble finding it. Their work is unique. It wouldn't be the same if this group of women didn't span decades in age, and possess wide differences in musical background. The group lives up to its commitment of "making music fiercely." Get it just for the cover photos! They're gorgeous.

A Musical Feast.......2001-03-10

The recordings of this talented group of women musicians just keep getting better and better. This CD is a rich blend of original and traditional Celtic material, from across the globe. The CD is like a multi-course banquet, with delicate harp solos by Sue Richards, spicy fiddling from Liz Knowles, savory and haunting Viola De Gamba licks from Carolyn Anderson Surrick. Whether I'm driving, cooking, or filing bills, I play "From the Isles to the Courts" and my work is easier, my journey more worthwhile. I've been a fan of Ensemble Galilei since I first heard them perform a few years ago, but they've outdone themselves this time. "From the Isles to the Courts" is truly a musical feast.

Average customer rating:

Under The Winter Moon Susan Vinson Sherlock Manufacturer: Susan Vinson Sherlock ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002HREPU Release Date: 2004-06-11

Tracks:

1. Under the Winter Moon
2. Cherry Tree
3. Drive the Cold Winter Away/Blessed Be That Maid Marie
4. Il est Ne'/Anges Dans Nos Campagnes
5. I Wonder as I Wander
6. Lashana Haba'a/Tantz Tantz Yidelekh
7. Come Before Winter
8. In the Bleak Midwinter
9. Greensleeves
10. Snowshoes/Snow Flake reel
11. Gesu Bambino
12. Christ Child Lullaby/Away in a Manger
13. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Album Description

Under the Winter Moon is an extraodinary, soothing journey through the winter moonlight via hammered dulcimer! Susan plays beautiful, original arrangements of traditional, seasonal, and original music on hammered dulcimer accompanied by fiddle, mandolin, bouzouki, guitar, concertina, and bass.

Average customer rating: A joyful experience

From the Isles to the Courts Manufacturer: Telarc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Ensemble Galilei | ( E ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Celtic New Age | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music New Age | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Fusion | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Sinners & Saints: The Ultimate Medieval and Renaissance Music Collection ASIN: B000088NV3 Release Date: 2003-02-18

Tracks:

1. Cantigas 7 and 2238, From the Court of Alfonso X
2. Scollay's Reel/King of the Fairies/Old Grey Cat/The Dance Goes On
3. Winter's Falling Light
4. Sinfonie and Musette from l'Isle de Delos
5. Callanish/Under the Full Moon
6. Anna's Garden
7. Home Fires/The Burning of the Clavie/The Burning of the Clavie Reel
8. Lake Skybelow
9. Folia Variations
10. Sgt. Early's Dream/Tune for Kieran
11. Fanny Poer/Mary O'Neill's
12. Aisling
13. Lady of the Lake
14. Miss Maxwell/Bridget Cruise/O'carolan's Welcome
15. Fair Maid of Barra/Dream Angus

Customer Reviews:

A joyful experience.......2003-07-23

Buy this NOW. This has to be one of the loveliest, most life affirming discs you'll ever hear. The five members of Ensemble Galilei are exceptional mistresses of their instruments, - fine musicians not just fine players. The music is varied, though with a preponderance of bounce and rhythm. The sound is simply wonderful, open, lively, analytical in the best sense, - with a fine acoustic at all times. Above all, this disc will make you feel good about life, the celts, the isles, the courts, and everything else. Superb.

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Under a Winter Moon Eric Garrison Manufacturer: China Moon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000LUDBVO

Product Description

6 Song EP

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'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime Steve Eulberg Manufacturer: Owl Mountain Music, Inc. ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music International Folk | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00012UU0W Release Date: 2003-03-15

Tracks:

1. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
2. Lovely Star
3. Fum, Fum, Fum
4. 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
5. A La Nanita Nana
6. Blessed Be That Maid Marie
7. Shepherd, Shepherd
8. Le Sommeil de l'Enfant Jesus
9. We Three Kings
10. Sister Mary
11. Ballad de Js Christ
12. Coventry Carol
13. I Wonder As I Wander
14. MEDLEY: Cbrons La Naissance/Masters in This Hall
15. Pat-a-Pan
16. Ven a Cantarle Js
17. MEDLEY: Hush My Babe/Children of the Heavenly King
18. The Blessings of Mary/Mary Had A Baby (Sweet Lamb)
19. El Cant Dels Ocells
20. Rejoice, My Friends
21. Star in the East

Album Description

Shimmering mountain and hammered dulcimer instrumentals playing minor mode tunes suitable for all seasons of the winter moon.

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Philip Martin Songs Manufacturer: Altarus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000003IXN Release Date: 1995-11-29

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