Name: No More to the Dance
Brand: Shanachie
SKU: 64687
Availability: OutOfStock

No More to the Dance

Rating

Album: No More to the Dance
#	Song Title	Time
1)	What Will We Do?
2)	Barring of the Door, The
3)	Blood And Gold / Mohacs
4)	Cakes and Ale
5)	Agincourt Carol / La Route Au Beziers
6)	How Shall I Your True Love Know?
7)	Hedger and Ditcher
8)	Old Miner, The
9)	Almost Every Circumstance
10)	Fine Horseman
11)	Rosie Anderson
12)	Somewhere Along the Road

Album: No More to the Dance
#	Song Title	Time
1)	What Will We Do?
2)	Barring of the Door, The
3)	Blood And Gold / Mohacs
4)	Cakes and Ale
5)	Agincourt Carol / La Route Au Beziers
6)	How Shall I Your True Love Know?
7)	Hedger and Ditcher
8)	Old Miner, The
9)	Almost Every Circumstance
10)	Fine Horseman
11)	Rosie Anderson
12)	Somewhere Along the Road

Performer Notes

Personnel: Maddy Prior (vocals); Andrew Cronshaw (whistling, bombard); Dan Ar Bras (guitar); Nigel Eaton (hurdy-gurdy); Mark Emerson (violin); Bernard O'Niell (cello); Paul James (soprano saxophone); Huw Warren (keyboards); Rick Kemp (bass guitar); Jim Sutherland (percussion).
Recording information: Ideal Sound Recorders, London, England.
Arrangers: June Tabor; Maddy Prior.
The first time June Tabor and Maddy Prior made a duo recording, it was released under their names and was entitled Silly Sisters. On this, their second album, Silly Sisters is the name of the group. Officially, it still consists of just Tabor and Prior, but most tracks also feature Breton guitarist Dan Ar Braz, Welsh harpist and keyboardist Huw Warren, and various other guests. As with their first album, the program is a winning mix of traditional and modern British folk music. An eerie and haunting arrangement of Andy Irvine's "Blood and Gold" is followed immediately by an almost African-sounding instrumental by Ar Braz; Tabor and Prior perform a brief a cappella "catch" by Henry Purcell entitled "Cakes and Ale"; and the traditional "Hedger and Ditcher" shows up in an arrangement that features both bagpipes and soprano saxophone. But interesting as things get instrumentally, Tabor and Prior's almost telepathic musicality and sharp, reedy voices are always at center stage, and the songs are always well served by the arrangements. ~ Rick Anderson