Gourd Music is a
record label
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featuring acoustic instrumental music with various ensembles of guitar, cello, flute, oboe, harp, fiddle, hammered and mountain dulcimer, banjo and mandolin.
Gourd Music was founded by
Neal Hellman
Neal Hellman (born April 13, 1948 in New York, NY) is an American folk musician, music teacher, and performer of the mountain dulcimer. He has been active in performing, writing, teaching and recording acoustic music for the past thirty years th ...
in
1988
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Genres published include
Shaker music, music of
Colonial America, Victorian music and music of the
American Civil War
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. Gourd albums range in style from traditional Celtic to old-time Appalachian; from galliards to jigs; from monasteries to mountain cabins; from courtly measures to rollicking sprees.
Gourd artists
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William Coulter
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Cheryl Ann Fulton
Cheryl Ann Fulton is an American harpist. Fulton performs, records, teaches, and researches the harp. She is a performer of historical harps, and one of the few harpists to play triple harp, medieval harp, and lever harps.
Fulton has performed o ...
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Neal Hellman
Neal Hellman (born April 13, 1948 in New York, NY) is an American folk musician, music teacher, and performer of the mountain dulcimer. He has been active in performing, writing, teaching and recording acoustic music for the past thirty years th ...
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Mary McLaughlin
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Robin Petrie
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Barry Phillips
Barry Phillips is a musician, arranger and producer of many recordings of Celtic, world and American folk music on the Gourd Music label.
Life and career
Phillips received a Masters of Music degree in composition from the San Francisco Conservat ...
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Shelley Phillips
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Todd Phillips
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Kim Robertson
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Martin Simpson
Martin Stewart Simpson (born 5 May 1953) is an English folk singer, guitarist and songwriter. His music reflects a wide variety of influences and styles, rooted in Britain, Ireland, America and beyond. He builds a purposeful, often upbeat voi ...
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Jim Taylor
See also
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List of record labels
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External links
Official websiteFolkLib Index - Gourd Music discography
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American record labels
Record labels established in 1987