Title Wood that sings [sound recording] : Indian fiddle music of the Americas / presented by the National Museum of the American Indian
Publication Info Washington, DC : Smithsonian Folkways, p1997
Location Call Number Status
 Musical Instruments  M40 .W66 1997    REQUESTABLE
Description 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
Notes Chiefly instrumental music featuring fiddle, by Native Americans from the United States, Canada, and Latin America
Performed by various native American fiddlers, singers, performing or community groups
Recorded 1963 to 1996, in various locations throughout the Americas
Compact disc
Historical and descriptive notes, in part by Daniel Sheehy (25 p. : ill. ; 12 cm.) inserted in container
Contents Violin : Chapaco : Bolivia / José Enrique Benítez, violin -- La guaneña : Quechua : Colombia / Danubio Azul group (Tulcán Naspirán family) performing on violin, tambora (drum), barítono (baritone horn), and tiple (soprano guitar) -- Danza a Santiago (excerpt) : Quechua : Peru / performed by the townspeople of Llacuari Pueblo on violin and wakrapuku (trumpet fashioned from animal horns), with vocals -- Kariso : Warao : Venezuela / Antonio Loranzano, performing on a seke-seke (violin) -- Araku : Mbya : Argentina / Gervasio Martínez, five-string guitar ; Mario Silva, rabel (three-string violin) -- Nantu ("Luna") : Shuar : Ecuador / Pedro Nayap, kitiar (two-string violin) and vocal -- Yan tox : K'ekshi Maya : Guatemala / Mateo Mo Xal, violin ; Crisanto Coc, harp -- Jacaltenango : Kanjobal Maya : Guatemala / Grupo Jolom Conob (Basilio Pedro, violin ; Nicolás Pedro, guitar) -- Aires fandango : Yucatecan Maya : Mexico / Marcelino Poot Ek, violin ; Pedro Ek Cituk, tarola (snare drum) ; Esteban Caamal Dzul, bombo (bass drum) --
Tzacamson : Tenek : Mexico / performed by the townspeople of Tancanhuitz (Ciudad Santos), San Luis Potosi, Mexico -- Son para entregar a la novia : (Xalsokoxochitl y Xochison, dos sones de gusto por haber amanecido en el baile) : Nahua : Mexico / José Augustin Cruz and José Martín Cruz, violin, guitar -- Wiricuta : Wirrarica (Huichol) : Mexico / Mariano, Pablo, Rosenda, and Agustín, raweri (violin), kanari (guitar), rattle, and vocals -- Melody played on the enneg (excerpt) : Konkaak (Seri) : Mexico / Francisco Barnet Astorga, enneg (bowed monochord) -- I'll go with you : San Carlos Apache : Arizona / Chesley Goseyun Wilson, vocal, flute, violin -- Pahko'ola dance song : Yaqui : Arizona / Yaqui Pahko'ola and Deer Singers (Felipe Molina (group leader), rasp ; Mateo Gonzales Osuna, harp ; Blas Alvares Valenzuela, violin ; Steve Armadillo, water drum ; Guillermo Amarillo Flores, rasp ; Steve Armadillo, Jr., Adam Armadillo, rattles, bells) -- Never alone : Tohono O'odham : Arizona / San Xavier Fiddle Band (Eddie Felix, Ed Wilson, fiddle ; Eugene Alvarez, bass drum ; Delbert Lewis, Cecil Adams, guitar ; Delbert Nuñez, snare) --
Strathspey and reel medley ; Jig medley : Mi'kmaq : Cape Breton, Canada / Lee Cremo Trio (Lee Cremo, fiddle ; Vincent Joe, piano ; Wilfred Paul, guitar) -- Finale medley : Ojibwe : Manitoba, Canada / Lawrence "Teddy Boy" Houle, fiddle ; Lionel Desjarlais, guitar -- Eagle Island blues : Athapaskan love song : Gwich'in : Alaska / Bill Stevens, fiddle ; Francis Williams, guitar ; Lisa Jaeger, guitar, bones, eggs, cabasa ; Bill Rogers, bass ; Tony "Snowshoe" Scott Pearce, English concertina) -- Turkey in the straw : Assiniboine Nakota : Wisconsin / Georgia Wettlin-Larsen, [vocal] -- Road to Batoche ; Big John McNeill : Turtle Mountain Chippewa (Métis) : North Dakota / Jimmie LaRocque, fiddle ; Gerry McIvor, fiddle, guitar ; Kim Chartrand, jigger
Subjects Fiddle tunes -- America
Folk music -- America
Indigenous peoples of North America -- Music.
Indigenous peoples of South America -- Music.
Indigenous peoples of Central America -- Music.
Ethnic music recordings -- America
Ethnic music recordings, Indians of North America
Ethnic music recordings, Indians of South America
Ethnic music recordings, Indians of Central America
Additional Authors Sheehy, Daniel, 1947-
National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.)
Other Title Indian fiddle music of the Americas
Material Type Compact discs.
ISBN 093074047224
Publisher Number CD SF 40472
OCLC 49367499