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Revel Grove

Piper Jones Posted on September 29, 2017 by ejSeptember 29, 2017

Here’s the first track of the Revel Grove album!  It’s named for the Maryland Renaissance Festival where Frances, Mike Huebner(drums), and I are playing the  for the next four weekends. When you enter the gates you’re in Revel Grove. It’s not a theme park. It’s a village populated by artists and artisans, the place for which this album was named.  We teach dances at our last set of the day and play the best tunes we can think of for the rest of the time. 

Bands like us wouldn’t exist without patronage. Just like it was hundreds of years ago, we travel from place to place and put our music together for the people who hire us. Good gigs and patron fans make it possible for this music to exist in the world for the folks who end up hearing it for free.  Everywhere we go we influence other musicians and even newcomers to the music world.  

Over the 9 week run of Revel Grove I’m teaching pipes to kids who work at the faire who come from families much too poor to afford lessons. Every player in this band end up influencing other musicians and audience members who play music, especially young people who are forming their mental map of how the world is. Your support has put us here, where we are doing good work!

You’ll receive at least one copy of this album soon but here’s the first track:

http://piperjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/01-Flora-Ms1.mp3

Flora Set: Bronni’s Blue Brozzi (M.Saul) / Unknown Reel (trad)

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Stripping

Piper Jones Posted on May 17, 2016 by ejMay 17, 2016

I’m currently driving away from Austin Tx where Frances and I were back with Rich Brotherton at Ace Recording with our drummer friend Matthew Williams on the kit.  We just had a fantastic weekend releasing the Crossing the Sabine to a full house in Houston and a perfect-weather festival in Arlington at the Texas Scottish Festival.

If you’re reading this I certainly hope you’ve gotten at least one CD in the mail! I know we might have gone a little overboard with the layering on the CD but I thought I would post some stripped-down tracks so you can hear some softer versions of things.

Thank you to our donors and pre-order-ers! You are absolutely responsible for our recordings existing:

Linda Hill
James Lewis
Darryl and Tamara McLeod
Pat Jones
Shelley Leatherwood
Jo Anne Kellaway

Christina Loescher
Richard Pitonyak
Kim Kimball
Laura Hilbun
Virginia Lamprecht

Crossing the Sabine Remix1
Just one flute
Dalena McKay Remix1
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ntro without the snare drum

Tom’s Export Remix1
before we added trumpet

Wave the Ocean Remix1
you can hear the banjo better now

 

 

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Crossing the Sabine just got mailed!

Piper Jones Posted on May 5, 2016 by ejMay 5, 2016

Hello Everybody! I’m so pleased to say that I just came back from the post office having mailed the first copies of the pilot CD Crossing the Sabine. They came in a bunch of UPS boxes last night around 7pm and … Continue reading →

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Off to the Printers

Piper Jones Posted on April 23, 2016 by ejApril 23, 2016

Well the CD is finally done and Crossing the Sabine is out of our hands and off to be printed. I anticipate copies in hand by May 3, in plenty of time for the May 13 release. The plan to make … Continue reading →

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Rough draft of a track order and notes

Piper Jones Posted on March 31, 2016 by ejMarch 31, 2016

I just emailed all this to Frances to add some notes of her own and let me know what she thinks of the order. This is not the whole story on these tunes. Nor are these notes necessarily all true, … Continue reading →

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Reaching Out

Piper Jones Posted on March 29, 2016 by ejMarch 29, 2016

There have been many “best things” about recording this new project. One of the most powerful aspects of this for me has been the new excuse to reach out to my heroes in the music world to ask about collaborating … Continue reading →

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