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Marc Gunn - Celtic Songs & Folk Music Downloads
Bard Marc Gunn performs Celtic Folk music and Filk on autoharp and a cappella. Free MP3 songs. Funny and romantic poetry. Free digital photography pictures of nature, fine art, and people.

Brobdingnagian Bards - Irish and Scottish Folk Songs, Fantasy & Filk
Renaissance in Celtic music. #1 indie Celtic music band with three milliond Celtic MP3 downloads. Scottish and Irish songs, Tolkien music, and Dr Demento Ren Faire comedy. Newsletter features free MP3s monthly. Features autoharp music of Marc Gunn

Autoharp Lady - Carol Stober
Carol Stober is multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher and recording artist. Her music covesr a broad range of styles including bluegrass, country, folk, mountain music, traditional, and gospel. She has taught Autoharp workshops, judged Autoharp competitions at major festifvals and performed at festivals, museums, churches, country music theatres, and theme parks.

Autoharp Legacy
A 3-CD set documenting the diversity of styles currently being performed on the autoharp, a multi-stringed acoustic instrument of American origin. 55 of the best-known performers of the autoharp from around the world gathered in Nashville, Tennessee to record an outstanding musical anthology that features this unique and versatile instrument. This is the album every autoharpist should own!

Barbara Giamalvo
From Raytown, Mo now residing in Gilbert, Az. Have enjoyed playing autoharp for many years. Looking forward to hearing from old friends and new ones.

Bill Bryant
Bill Bryant, a unique individual, with a gift very few people are given - to play an instrument few people can play, to create music that has to have come straight from the Lord, and to have friends to share that music on this, his third album. A total of twelve musicians and seventeen singers joined in this venture to create a somewhat new style of Christian music. Strong messages with sometimes mellow, sometimes driving instrumentals make this an album to listen to over and over again.

Bryan Bowers
Premier master autoharpist and touring musician. Widely recognized as THE BEST autoharpist today.

Ageless Harmony
Experience roots music played inÊa traditional way with Mary Park on the autoharp.

Carol Stober
Carol Stober is multi-instrumental musician, entertainer, teacher and recording artist. Her music covesr a broad range of styles including bluegrass, country, folk, mountain music, traditional, and gospel. She has taught Autoharp workshops, judged Autoharp competitions at major festifvals and performed at festivals, museums, churches, country music theatres, and theme parks.

Doofus
Doofus might mean "village idiot" to some, but it's really a token of our affection for each other and the music we make together!æ We are a lively old time band consisting of two couples: Neal & Coleen Walters and John & Heidi Cerrigione.æ Together we sing and play guitar, autoharp, mountain and hammered dulcimer, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, and acoustic bass.

Evo Bluestein
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Evo Bluestein brings to his music a rich legacy of American folk tradition, brilliant interpretation and original composition. Considered one of this country's most accomplished Appalachian-style autoharpists, Bluestein is equally known as a performer and teacher of oldtime fiddle, button accordion, guitar and banjo. His repertoire includes songs derived from Appalachian, Cajun, zydeco, blues and other styles of music.

Foot in the Air String Band
We're an old time string band, centered at the meeting of Ohio, WV, and Ky.We play the authentic Appalachian music we grew up with, on hammered dulcimer, mandolin, autoharp, guitar and bass.

Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers on Autoharp
Do you love Irish Drinking Songs? Are you like me, a kitty cat lover fanatic? Put those together and you have Irish Drinking Songs for Cat Lovers, a CD for the wonderfully demented kitty cat fantatic. Listen to music you've heard on St. Patrick's Day or by The Dubliners, The Clancy Brothers, The Wolfe Tones, and the Irish rovers. Then laugh as all your favorite Irish Drinking Songs are rewriten with Cat song lyrics. Your love of Celtic music will never be the same!

John and Kathie Hollandsworth
John Hollandsworth has played autoharp since childhood and has taught and performed across the US and in England. He and wife Kathie, who performs with him, are from the Appalachian Mountains in Southwest Virginia.

Jo Ann Smith
From traditional tunes to contemporary ballads, Jo Ann's expressive technique and inspired arrangements have won her wide acclaim, and demonstrate without question that the autoharp is an instrument capable of serious music. Best known for her solo work featuring tasteful use of non-standard chords, Jo Ann also performs with the acoustic folk music group, "Pocket Change". Her latest CD, "Rhythm of the Rain", features some of her best-known autoharp arrangements backed up by talented local musicians on bass, guitar and mandolin. Jo Ann performs regularly throughout her local region, and also gives group workshops and private autoharp instruction.

Karen Mueller
Nationally touring autoharpist. The Minneapolis-based musician presents concerts and workshops in a variety of settings, from concert halls to elementary schools. Considered one of the finest players of her instruments in the country, she creates dynamic, finely-crafted arrangements of Appalachian, Celtic and contemporary tunes. She also plays guitar, bass dulcimer, mandolin and bouzouki, and is in demand as an instructor as well as performer.

Les Gustafson-Zook
This former National Autoharp Champion has an instinct for using the right fills and riffs to appropriately grace each melody -- not to mention having a flair for artful arrangement.æ His playing is both creative and captivating, with inventive little twists and turns in timing ever holding the listener‰s attention.æ The interjection of occasional bouncy, syncopated licks and rhythms further displays his consistent precision and expressiveness. - Eileen Roys, Autoharp Clearinghouse, Nov. ë94

Mark Teegardin
Another Autoharp Site Mark Teegardin's site including DIY Autoharp Repair guide.

Marti Rogers
Accompanying herself on the guitar, the mountain dulcimer, or the Autoharp, Marti Rogers sings a wide variety of songs in the folk genre from purely traditional to contemporary including some of her own composition.

Mary Umbarger
Mary Umbarger performs with alone and with The Front Porch Strings, playing old-time, Celtic, and jazz on the autoharp. She is a winnner of many competitions including Galax Old Fiddlers Convention, Mt. Airy Fiddlers Convention, Union Grove Fiddlers Convnention, Loch Norman Scottish Games Harp Competition and the North Carolina State Fair. She teachs workshops in autoharp, bowed psaltry, and fiddle tunes on the autoharp in old time and Celtic music. (Added: 26-Aug-2003 Hits: 71 Rating: 0 Votes: 0) Rate It

Mountain Fling
A 4-piece band featuring autoharp, guitar, banjo, harmonica, hammered dulcimer, and vocals. John Hollandsworth is the autoharpist. Based in southwest Virginia, Mountain Fling performs regularly in their home area and beyond.

Pacific Crest Pioneer Band
Northwest music, featuring: Kay Waite, Darrell Johnson, & Tim Dawdy The Pacific Crest Pioneer Band combines Bluegrass, Irish, Old-time, and Western traditions into their Northwest musical sound.

Sweet Water Folk
Cindy Funk of Sweetwater has been weaving autoharp in and out of the group's music for over fifteen years. The 'harp is the melody and harmony backing that sets off the other instruments: guitar, mtn. dulcimer, bass, pennywhistle and more.

The Earth Tones
The Earth Tones are a folk band composed of Environmental Protection Agency employees, who first performed together to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 1996. We play an eclectic mix of old-time country, bluegrass, Celtic, and folk-pop. Band members include: Karen Reshkin (fiddle, vocals), John Haugland (banjo, vocals), Peter Swenson (guitar, vocals), Bill Tong(autoharp, vocals), Rich Murawski (drums, percussion), Jim Van der Kloot (mandolin).

The Kilby Brothers
American folk to classic rock similiar to that of the late 60's and early 70's, including some autoharp songs.

Tina Louise Barr
Tina is well-known for her trademark clarity and high-geared performances on the autoharp. Her remarkable versatility shows no limits in her range of musical styles. Regarded as an innovator in her field, Tina Louise Barr performs and gives autoharp workshops across the U.S.

WOLFF
American folk to classic rock similiar to that of the late 60's and early 70's, including some autoharp songs.