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Top 10 Renaissance Festival CDs of 2011

(as voted in the annual Renaissance Festival Awards)

#1

“Roseland/Tideland” by Circa Paleo

Roseland is a jingle-jangley wagon visiting European, Gypsy, Turkish, Arabic, and Spanish cultures. The exotic modes and energetic performances are textured with a caravan of percussion and grooves. Kashmir and White Rabbit are also featured.

Tideland is a Celtic, Scandinavian, and Appalachian musical journey. It features two versions of the crowd favored theme from The Last of the Mohicans, Promontory, and The Kiss.

#2

“The Lusty Wench” by Bocca Musica

This is a bawdy, musical comedy CD that incorporates various genres from original works to traditional Celtic, spoofs of modern songs and silly and naughty jokes. It’s a blend of loose morals and tight harmonies!!!

“The Lusty Wench”, is Bocca Musica’s 9th CD release in 15 years. It is a combination of original works in various genres such as blues, slapstick, sea shanties and drynking songs. It also includes spoofs of traditional and pop songs along with comedy bits thrown in for good measure. Although this CD is a bawdy comedy recording, one thing always remains the same, Bocca’s commitment to tight harmonies!

#3

“Kraken Up” by Bounding Main

Ahoy mates! This 4th studio album continues our unique journey while mixing history, harmony and humor as only we can. Traditional tunes and lively originals make this CD another example of the sound audiences across the world have come to love.

#4

“And We’re Back” by The Interpreters

The Courteseans of Comedy!

One speaks Italian, One speaks Blonde. Laugh and listen while the mayhem ensues. This 2-woman a capella singing group tickles both your funny bone and your savage beast with music both irreverent and sweet. Dirty ditties (she said “D”itties) and bawdy tunes are mixed with the craziness of the ladies mis-interpretation.

#5

“Bottoms Up” by The Merry Wives of Windsor

The music is a fantastic blend of traditional and modern music in both style and content.

#6

“Fig For a Kiss” by Abby Green

Traditional Irish and Scottish songs (ballads to jigs) presented with glowing vocals, crisp harmonies, Irish bouzouki, fiddle, small pipes, and flute.

#7

 “Bareknuckle Pipes and Drums” by Albannach

‘Bareknuckle Pipes & Drums’ is our third studio album, recorded in 2011 – this is the ‘well-polished’ and extended follow up to our raw EP, ‘The SubZero Sessions’.

#8

“Bard Camp” by Dan the Bard

Songs about Dragons and the Dungeons in which they dwell! Renaissance Lute, Turkish Laouta, Medieval Gittern, Recorder, Tin Whistle, Drums and more accompany 16th C. Broadside Ballads, Celtic Folk Tunes, and original compositions. Songs about D&D!

#9

“Walking on Cinders/Order of the Owl” by Cu Dubh

Cu Dubh’s first all original release “Order of the Owl” is the bands debut recording of it’s dark, all original sound that places the listener somewhere unspecifically ancient and timeless yet completely familiar and palpable. Hauntingly Middle-Eastern and Tribal, this album is a total sumbersion into the ritual of dance, pulse and vibration that exists in the minds of those who created it…You could be anywhere…and are.

#10

“Songs of the open road” by Carl Asch

This album reflects the nearly 30 years of Carl’s travels and the very talented musicians he has met along the way. Almost every song has been recorded with a different band in a different city in America. He is joined by the likes of Cantiga, Coyote Run, Peter Suarez, and Candace Night from Blackmore’s Night. There’s zydeco, bluegrass, jazz and world music with a cast of nearly a hundred.