A Silent Night...

Christmas with Meadowlark

An inviting and festive collection of uplifting arrangements that beautifully reflect the joy and spirit of the holiday season, "A Silent Night" will brighten your home and warm your heart. Presenting much-loved seasonal tunes, Meadowlark has also honored one of their early influences, the group Nightnoise, by including "Night in That Land", by the late Scottish fiddler, Johnny Cunningham.

 

INSTRUMENTATION:
Rick Cyge: acoustic and classical guitars, mandolin, piano, Irish cittern
Lynn Trombetta: flute and pennywhistles

 

Tracks:  Joy to the World     Silent Night  •  Bring a Torch  •  Night in That Land  •  God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen   •  Erev Shel Shoshanim :: Evening of Roses  •  The Little Drummer Boy  •  The Holly and The Ivy  •  The Music Box Waltz Set: Waltz of the Little Girls / The Cajun Waltz  •  Jingle Bells  •  Still, Still, Still  ▪  Silent Night Reprise

 

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WINDY & WARM  ... a journey home                

Meadowlark's sweet folk roots are palpable in this intimate recording  rich with harp-like fingerstyle guitar, sensuous flutes and pennywhistles.  This recording features six new Rick Cyge compositions, selections  composed by Leo Kottke, Edgar Meyer and Cheryl Wheeler and pieces  popularized by Doc Watson and Nanci Griffith.  Also included is the  often requested "Ashokan Farewell" (best known as the theme music  for the Ken Burns' PBS Special on the Civil War).  This recording focuses  on the interplay between the guitar and flute and is filled with  surprises  from the mandolin, Irish cittern and pennywhistles.

Tracks:  Simple Folk Rick Cyge      Kiwi's Frolic Rick Cyge     Pie in the Skye Rick Cyge    Ramble Road  Rick Cyge     Windy and Warm J. D. Loudermilk    Short Trip Home  Edgar Meyer     75 Septembers  Cheryl Wheeler    Three Quarter North Leo Kottke     Once in a Very Blue Moon Pat Alger     Ashokan Farewell Jay Ungar     The Briar Patch Rick Cyge      Pre-Dawn Revelation  Rick Cyge

Soundclips coming soon......... in the mean time, to hear samples from this recording click here.

 

 

Beyond Words

LSP 1034D

A retrospective collection of music culled from their 4 previous releases.

 

 

 

 

FREEFALL

LSP 1033D

"Joyful Celebratory Music!"

"Eclectic Ecstasy!" - Annie Reddock

 

 

 

Legend of the Land

LSP 1032D    LSP 1032C

“Reminiscent of Shadowfax or Nightnoise, Meadowlark’s music touches the heart with an ancient freshness that is not soon forgotten.” Robert Walmsley, Omega Directory 

Experience the vibrant Desert Southwest and beyond through this bounty of visually evocative instrumental compositions.  From the bold title cut, “Legend of the Land”, through the sultry Mediterranean-flavored “Creek Spirit”; to the world beat of “African Skies”, the stirring guitar solo “River’s Journey” and the celestial, “Indigo Nights”, Meadowlark effortlessly transports the listener and captures the imagination.

Stunning images by Arizona landscape artist, Ed Mell grace the cover and CD booklet along with the stories of each of the compositions.  

Instrumentation: guitar, flute, violin, violira, mandolin, world percussion and keyboards.

 

Dance of the Sandpiper

LSP 1030D    LSP 1030C

“...a priceless ticket to ride over the hills and dales of your imagination.”

Meadowlark’s debut CD release, “Dance of the Sandpiper”, is an enchanting collection of musically adventurous odes to the natural surroundings that we oftentimes take for granted. Instrumentation: guitar, flute, pennywhistles, violin, violira, mandolin, Irish cittern, bass, keyboards, and percussion.

 

 

Spirit of the Season

LSP 1031D    LSP 1031C

“It will take you on everyone’s secret fantasy journey - a holiday season in which Wall Street and Madison Avenue are dirt roads.” Foothills Sentinel

Meadowlark captures the ‘spirit of the season’ in this alluring winter solstice album of traditional, contemporary and original Celtic-inspired melodies for year round enjoyment. Instrumentation: flute, pennywhistles, guitar, mandolin, Irish cittern, violin, piano, keyboards, and world percussion.

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Meadowlark Recordings are available through a corporate gift program that offers the music at an attractive price point for quantity purchases.  Click here to learn more about this special program.  

 

E-mail us at webmail@meadowlarkmusic.com