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I Celebrate Life! BOOK
Original Songs & Tunes by Steve Eulberg for Mountain and Hammered Dulcimers
Inspired by a Jean Ritchie poem of the same title, I Celebrate Life! is the title track of a collection of original songs and tunes written for Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer by award-winning singer-songwriter and musician, Steve Eulberg.
In his hands, the dulcimers reveal their many different characters: from old-time hoe-down, to sweet lyrical poetry, to bent-note blues and mystical eastern drones. Landscapes and portraits are painted with colorful hues as the listener is transported from the shores of Lake Michigan to the snowy springtime Rocky Mountains, from the gently falling first flakes of winter to the Ozarks of Missouri, from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to the brewing summer storms of Colorado.
But more than a travelogue, these tunes are also sonic journal of the artist's interior and exterior journeys.
Eulberg, a 4-time winner and 3-time finalist in the National Mountain and Hammered Dulcimer Championships, has gathered into one collection the tunes he's been composing for these instruments since he began playing them 25 and 21 years ago. This collection is his book is also entitled, I Celebrate Life!
This recording is a sampling of 22 previously unrecorded tunes. As one reviewer has commented, "This is a Double Album of Original Dulcimer tunes...the best yet!"
I Celebrate Life! follows Eulberg's
2003 release, 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ,LINK which was featured
on United Airlines Inflight Audio during the holiday season of that year, and
his 2001 release, Soaring LINK, whose title track is featured in the
soundtrack of the PBS television show Roadtrip Nation (episode 10) which is
airing this summer.
Item Name: ' I Celebrate Life' (book)
by Steve Eulberg
Item Number: OMM BK0405
Price : $18.00 plus S+H
COMBO BOOK/CD The book, OMM BK0405, $18.00 by itself,
sells with the CD for $28.00
Track Listing (Listen to underlined tracks) Click on Lyrics, next to the tune for the lyrics page
1. Ferret Frolic
2. I Celebrate Life! (Lyrics)
3. Cracking Open A New Century
4. Seton Sands
5. Snowbow at Sky
6. O Virginee-i-a (Lyrics)
7. Dancing With Wu-Li
8. Old Shoe Waltz
9. Mt. Jackson/Just A Sliver Short of Full
10. We Are An Answer to Prayer (Lyrics)
11. Byword Tower
12. Pining Hearts
13. First Snow
14. Portage River
15. Summer Storm
16. Jumpin' Java
17. One Sweet Sabbath Breath
18. Elk in the Meadow
19. Woodland Acres Waltz
20. Connie's Jig (Lyrics)
21. Bedtime in the Meadow
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