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Sound Samples of the Hammered Mbira
My Cape Breton Home
Southern Cross
From Journey to the Heartland
Caspian's Return (Ken Kolodner, US)/Cuckoo's Nest Hornpipe (Ireland) (Windows Media)
Journey to the Heartland (Ken Kolodner, US)/YZ Hamilton's Breakdown (US) (Windows Media)
The Blacktail Canyon Waltz (Ken Kolodner, US)/Down Home Waltz (Buck White, US) (Windows Media)
Mike in the Wilderness/Red Bird (US) (Windows Media)
From A Roof for the Rain
Breton Dance / The Breakers Reel (WMA Full Version)
A Roof for the Rain (Ken Kolodner, U.S.) / O'Sullivan's Polka (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Summer's End (Ken Kolodner, U.S.) / March of the King of Laois (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Sandy's Dilemna (Laura Risk, U.S.) /Coalminer's (Ireland) / Monaghan Twig (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
From A Winter Solstice with Helicon
Erev Shel Shoshanim (Evening of Roses) (Yosef Hadar & Moshe Dor, Israel)/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Anonymous 16th Century English/Christmas Eve (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
The Happy Farmer/Spring Morning/A Girl Raises her Sheep/Dancing and Singing in the Village (China) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Hush My Babe (a.s.a. I Shall Arise or Restoration) (U.S.) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
From Greenfire
The Rolling Wave (Ireland)/The Shaskeen (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
The Knocknaboul (Ireland)/Salmon Tails Up the Water (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
First Light in the Mountains (Robin Bullock, U.S.)/The Open Road (Robin Bullock, U.S.) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Mademoiselle de Paris (France)/Varpunnen (Finland)/Molly Rankin's (John Morris Rankin, Cape Breton) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
From Walking Stones
The Queen's Polka (Ireland)/The Bornish Polka (Ireland) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Walking Stones (Ken Kolodner, U.S.)/Caspian Lake (Ken Kolodner, U.S.) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Kevin Keegan's Waltz (Irish American) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
From The Titan
In the Csitari Mountain (Hungary)/Storm Warning (Robin Bullock-U.S.) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Traditional Bolivian/Columbito Tecumano (Bolivia) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
The Athol Highlandeers (Scotland/Helicon) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
From Horizons
Macedonian (Macedonia)/Ceausescu Quickstep (Romania) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Mr. Pantaleish/The Lemon Tree (Greece) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)
Lost Child/Hunting for the Buffalo (U.S.) (MP3 Sample | Full MP3)