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UpNorth Concert Hall: Traditional & New AcousticConcert Hall Home| Submit music or audio Traditional music performances from NCPR
This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This first hour includes the following tunes: Arkansas Traveler, Cock of the North, Fisher's Hornpipe, Flop Eared Mule, Garry Owen/Haste To The Wedding, I'll Fly Away, Irish Washerwoman, Keep On The Sunny Side, and Off She Goes.
This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This second hour includes the following tunes: Old Joe Clark, Smash The Windows, Star of the County Down, Devil's Dream, Soldier's Joy, and Wabash Cannonball.
Members of the String Fever Jam Band in the NCPR studio.
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String Fever host Barb Heller welcomes a whole slew of traditional musicians into the studio to perform standards and favorites. To encourage the radio audience to play along, all the sheet music was posted online. You can download this audio and play along yourself. Recordings of your home session may be posted on the String Fever page.
Fiddlers Gretchen Koehler and Don Woodcock
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String Fever host Barb Heller welcomes Gretchen Koehler and Don Woodcock into the studio for some great North Country fiddling. Gretchen is the 2008 Northeast Champion fiddler, and Don is a past NYS champion. They take turns at the fiddle and the piano for some favorite tunes, and talk with Barb about the history of traditional fiddle styles. More...
Fiddlers share favorite tunes
12/09/08
Some trick and fancy fiddlin' by the Potsdam Fiddle Club
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The Potsdam Fiddle Club visited Traditional Arts in Upstate New York during an open house on Saturday. The group is composed of musicians who range from pre-schoolers to grandparents. They were accompanied by family members on guitar, piano, limberjacks, spoons and washtub bass. Here they perform Swallowtail Jig and Geese in the Bog.
In the final performance in the UpNorth Music Concert Series, Adrenaline Hayride, a group of well-seasoned bluegrass players from Saratoga Springs, NY, dazzled a full house at The Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek.
In the final performance in the UpNorth Music Concert Series, The Fraser Clan, a family band of Celtic musicians and singers from Harrisville, NY, dazzled a full house at The Tannery Pond Community Center in North Creek.
Wisconsin
08/20/08
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
The Barefoot Boy with Boot
08/20/08
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
Cabbage Head
08/20/08
Performed by Dave Ruch at the NCPR Studio for UpNorth Music. This song is included on his new CD The Oldest was Born First.
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This outdoor concert at Asgaard Farm features four performers from the UpNorth Music project: bluegrass with Althea Jean, Caribbean drums with Dan Hammond, blues with Mark Tostrup, and ska and jazz with Shu. We select highlights from their live performances.
UpNorth Music Concert: In The Neighborhood Singer-Songwriter Festival at Norwood Village Green
06/16/08
The annual singer-songwriter festival at the Norwood Village Green Concert Series featured three performers from the UpNorth Music project: folk songs by Celia Evans of Paul Smiths NY, eclectic acoustic tunes by father-son duo John & Orion Kribs from Corinth NY, and folk and blues by father-daughter duo Jim & Gwen Tracy from Old Forge. We select highlights from their original compositions in live performance.
Big City
10/04/07
Performed by City Limits in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Nightlife
10/04/07
Performed by City Limits in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
North Up The River
10/03/07
Performed by Gary Moon in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Every Square Inch of the Earth
10/03/07
Performed by Gary Moon in Lake George, NY for UpNorth Music.
Angelina Baker
09/21/07
Performed by The Whompers at Paul Smith's College.
Dead Heads and Suckers
09/21/07
Performed by The Whompers at Paul Smith's College.
From a Window
09/11/07
Performed by Neil J. Fitzgerald in Plattsburgh, New York for UpNorth Music
The River's Edge
09/11/07
Performed by Neil J. Fitzgerald in Plattsburgh, New York for Upnorth Music
Old Dirt Road
09/10/07
Performed in Plattsburgh, NY by Drew & Annie for UpNorth Music.
Why Can't All My People Get Along?
09/10/07
Performed in Plattsburgh, NY by Drew & Annie for UpNorth Music.
Wishful Thinking
09/10/07
Performed by Crossing North in Plattsburgh, NY for UpNorth Music
Dusty Boxcar Walls
09/10/07
Performed by Staber & Chasnoff in Plattsburgh, NY for UpNorth Music.
Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?
09/10/07
Performed by Staber & Chasnoff in Plattsburgh, NY for UpNorth Music.
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 UpNorth Music Project:A two-year project to identify, record, compile, promote and distribute new music by North Country composers and performers. Traditional music interviews from NCPR
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