Greenwich Village - The Happy Folk Singing Days 1950s and 1960s: Guitar Chords and Arrangements for Mountain Dulcimer

Ralph Lee Smith · Madeline MacNeil

oct 2010 · Mel Bay Publications

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Visit the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s - and bring your dulcimer! Ralph Lee Smith was there and saw it all. He was the only dulcimer player in the Village's old-timey string bands during the Folk Revival's glory days. A fascinating text and rare photographs bring you to Washington Square, the coffeehouses and the music gatherings at the Folklore Center and in Allan Block's Sandal Shop, where young enthusiasts created a musical revolution. The book contains a selection of the songs and tunes that they played and swapped as they reclaimed a lost American heritage. If you can't play old tunes such as "Finger Ring", "Dance All Night with a Bottle in Your Hand", and "Chickens are a-Crowin'", get this book, light a candle and bring the Greenwich Village folk scene to your home or coffeehouse! Includes dulcimer tab in DAA and DAD, musical notation and guitar chords.

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Her recording career began in 1983 and includes more than a dozen independent releases. Her recording of "Shenandoah," her signature song, has been used extensively in Public Television productions.

She performed in schools for students from elementary through high school and often invited them to play a little on her dulcimers. For several years she was a touring artist under the sponsorship of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She's been honored by folk organizations and festivals.

Madeline's books for mountain and hammered dulcimers have been best-sellers for Mel Bay Publications since 1978.