Recordings and Music Books of Historic Interest Order From Sara L. Johnson / The Kitchen Musician 449 Hidden Valley Lane, Cincinnati OH 45215 Please check availbility of items by e-mail: kmorder@mac.com or phone: 513/761-7585 Music from medieval, to 18th Century England and Colonial America, to the American Civil War period, some recorded in historic locations, using authentic or reproduction instruments. Other recordings do not attempt to recreate an authentic period sound, but, while containing modern arrangements or modern instruments, are predominantly period music. Many of these recordings are produced by very small record labels, and are often hard to find. Our stock will vary from time to time.
	THE BALTIMORE CONSORT (17th & 18th Century) - Unavailable at this time BROADSIDE BAND - (17th Centruy) Jeremy Barlow and the Broadside Band, Playford, English country dance and French 16th and 17th century dance music CITY WAITES - (English 17th and 18th century) Hilarious and occasionaly bawdy songs and instrumentals. CLEMENCIC - Rene Clemenciic and the Clemencic Consort - (Medieval and Renaissance to neo-Baroque flutes - French) COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG (18th Century) Performers at Colonial Williamsburg recreating life in 18th century Virginia. See also Virginia Company, below WAYNE ERBSEN (19th Century) Erbsen, banjo player, singer and a lifelong collector of historic American music, with banjos, fiddle, guitar, mandolin, Jews harp, etc. BOB FLESHER & DR. HORSEHAIR'S OLD-TIME MINSTRELS (19th Century minstrel/old-time banjo) Bob Flesher builds authentic minstrel reproduction banjos, teaches, and performs with Dr. Horsehair's Old-Time Minstrels, a string band playing minstrel music of the 1840s-1870s, in authentic period attire. With banjo, bones, fiddle and percussion. MARK GARDNER & THE MULESKINNERS (19th Century) tunes and instruments, and playing styles, from the Santa Fe Trail, the Mexican War and Gold Rush, with banjo, bones, vocals, fiddle, parlour guitar. THE HENDRICKSON GROUP (18th Century) suppliers and printers of well-researched books and tapes relating to 18th-century dancing, dance instruction, music and social customs of 18th century America and England. DAVID and GINGER HILDEBRAND (18th Century) The Hildebrands have been researching, performing and recording early American music since 1985, and David, as a member of the Sonneck Society for American Music and the American Musicological Society, has lectured for these and other organizations. SARA L. and MAYNARD R. JOHNSON (18th to 20th Century) Sara Johnson has collected and published traditional folk tunes since 1976, with 17 books in the Kitchen Musician series for hammer dulcimer , fiddle, tinwhistle, and other folk instruments. Sara and Maynard research and perform late 18 th and early 19th century music, and music of Cincinnati, Northwest Territory, Ohio, as Cincinnati became a beacon of civilization on the frontier. THE KITCHEN MUSICIAN® (Books) tune books written in standard notation, some with hammer dulcimer tablature also included. They are suitable for most other folk and concert pitch instruments as well, a source of common and uncommon tunes. Some information is given with the tunes of historical or musical interest, and in many cases, recorded sources of the tunes are given. With guitar chords. MELLSTOCK BAND (Traditional 19th Century English Band) MINSTREL BANJO (19th Century antebellum banjo) 19th century banjo music, recreating the old styles from printed tunebooks and methods mostly printed in the USA of the 1850s. DAN SLOSBERG - early 19th Century American frontier fiddle music. Slosberg has researched and portrays Pierre Cruzatte, the French/Indian member of the Lewis & Clark expedition and one of the expedition's two fiddlers. JIM TAYLOR (American Civil War) Jim Taylor of North Carolina, a reenactor and musician with a lifelong interest in the Civil War, has done much research into the more obscure songs of the period, and turned out several stunning albums of songs from both sides of the conflict. JOHN TURNER (18th Century) Dr. Turner was 10 time winner of U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Championship, and has performed throughout the US, Canada and the British Isles. An expert on the "Golden Era" of Scottish fiddling in the 18th Century, Dr. Turner also performs at Colonial Williamsburg. THE VIRGINIA COMPANY (18th Century) The Virginia Company perform the historic vocal and instrumental music of Virginia at Colonial Williamsburg, play music of the 17th and 18th century, and popular period music about Virginia or that was known to 18th century Virginians. They use reproductions of period instruments.