Music of Historic America:
Music of the Shakers, Colonial music, Music of the Civil War, American Gospel music, and music of the Victorian era.

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Music of the Shakers
William Coulter & Barry Phillips
Instrumental arrangements of Shaker melodies. Like their highly-prized crafts, their music was the outward expression of their faith, celebrating their ideals of simplicity and love. These are melodies born directly of the Shakers' spiritual life, yet deeply rooted in the Anglo-American folk tradition—music to cheer the heart and lift the spirit.
Simple Gifts
Music on the Mountain
Simple Gifts Collection
Tree of Life
Music of Colonial America
Colonial America
By Hesperus
Performed on a wide variety of folk and early music instruments. Includes: lively country-dance tunes, evocative Shape Note Hymns, old time Appalachian fiddle tunes, graceful European parlor music, French cotillions, divisions and improvisations.
Early American Roots
By Hesperus
Spirited new sounds from early Colonial America - from the arrival of the first colonists to the American Revolution and the birth of our republic. Performing on recorders, Baroque violin, viola da gamba, flageolet, hammered dulcimer, cittern and Baroque guitar.
The World Turned Upside Down
Barry Phillips and Friends explore the colorful variety of music popular in late 18th and early 19th century America, from elegant Colonial drawing rooms to homely frontier hearths to rollicking waterside taverns.
An Early American Quilt
By Hesperus
In towns and villages, parlors and ballroom, from the Applachian Mountains to the great concert halls, Hesperus once agains celebrates the diversity of Early American music performed on a wide variety of folk and early music instruments.
From the Time of the Civil War
Music for square dances, hoe-downs, and minstrel shows; for sitting around the campfire or socializing in the parlor ...With fascinating liner notes telling the story of each tune. Straight out of the archives and campfires of the Civil War.
The Bright Sunny South
Jim Taylor
The Civil War Collection, Volume II
Jim Taylor
The Civil War Collection, Volume I
Jim Taylor
Gospel Music
Wondrous Love

Barry & Shelley Phillips

Instrumental arrangements from the American shape note tradition.
A Closer Walk With Thee

Martin Simpson

A brilliant guitarist explores the great American treasury of gospel music.
Swanee: The Music of Stephen Foster
Talented producer and musician Joe Weed has assembled an all star cast of acoustic musicians to perform the music of America's great 19th century songwriter Stephen Foster.

Featured musicians: Norton Buffalo, Laurie Lewis, Molly Mason, Sarah Elizabeth Campbell, Tim O'Brien, Todd Phillips, Tony Trischka, Rob Ickes, Jay Unger, Marty Atkinson, Joe Craven, Marti Kendall, Steve Kritzer, John Reishman, Bevery Smith and Joe Weed.

Selections include: Oh, Susanna, Gentle Annie, Hard Times Come Again No More, Beautiful Dreamer, My Old Kentucky Home and more.

Detailed notes for each song are also included. Additional titles by Joe Weed.
Christmas from the Victorian Era
A Victorian Christmas
Robin Petrie

Christmas had been a much neglected holiday until the Victorians revived its beloved traditions - trimming the tree, hanging the mistletoe, decking the hall...and celebrating it all in songs called carols.
A Victorian Noël
Robin Petrie

An enchanting companion album to A Victorian Christmas... Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans officially outlawed all festivals, including the ancient Yuletide celebrations so beloved by the people.
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Last Update: October, 2007