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HOW TO: NY
Hurdy Gurdy Is Beautiful
featuring Melissa Kacalanos
www.melissathelou d.com
playing her hurdy-gurdy November 14, 2006
on Canal Street
New York, NY
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A MY NEW YORK COMPANY PRODUCTION
Copyright@ 2006
Yura Dashevsky
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Mount Hekla is a Icelandic volcano considered mystical place by Vikings. Therefore my song inspired by Icelandic folklore with some improvisation :-). Here captured on my desktop camera on Hurdy-gurdy solo but free full version (drums, cello, hg) is available for download at www.mp3.com.au/umane e
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Sweet Chariot 2003 - Matt told me it was one of the highlight of his life playing like that with Bob...Unfortunately I ran out of tape and the song was over before I could find a new one...Still a little souvenir.
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Russian traditional jocular song. Andrey Vinogradov - hurdy-gurdy, arrangement. CD and tracks Russian hurdy-gurdy tunes are available at iTunes, Amazon, Napster, Rhapsody.
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A video rendition of Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man. One of my favorite songs of the psychedelic sixties. Best viewed in full screen mode, with moderately high volume.
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Original Epic Records vinyl 45 RPM of "Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan. Released 6/22/1968 and peaked at #5 on the Billboard charts.
Here's Wikipedia's complete "Behind The Hits" (thank you Bob Shannon!) story about this record:
http://en.wikiped ia.org/wiki/Hurdy_Gu rdy_Man
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My brother playing an old French dance on the hurdy-gurdy with me doing the background percussion.
We're sorry for the little mistake at about sec. 20...
Recorded in Dublin, August 2006.
UPDATE:
Check out our latest videoclip, which features not only the great hurdy-gurdy, but also some mandolin and singing:
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=f42CF_ Aiqi8
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Rhode Island-based composer Steve Jobe accompanies harmonica virtuoso Chris Turner with the Bosch Hurdy Gurdy. They are rehearsing towards a production, Music for Three Hurdy-Gurdies that will be performed in Providence in October 2007.
