Product Description The Shakers danced and sang to melodies they received as gifts from the spirit world. Like their high-prized crafts, their music was the outward expression of their faith, celebrating their ideals of simplicity and love. This is Gourd's all-time best-sell. Gourd Music.2004 Review ...all the beauty of traditional music and all the excitement of modern instrumentation, arrangement, and performance. --InMusic Editor's Choice, December 15, 1991 About the Artist Exhuberant dance tunes, lively marches and reverent hymns were part of the daily lives and worship of the Shakers, who flourished in mid-19th century America. Like their highly-prized crafts, the Shakers' music was an outward expression of their faith and celebrated their ideals of simplicity and love. Barry Phillips and William Coulter, along with guest artists Shelley Phillips, Mike Marshall, Robin Petrie and others, create exquisite blends of guitar, cello, fiddle, mandolin, flute, harp and dulcimers. From the title track (made famous by Aaron Copland in Appalachian Spring to little-known gems from the Shakers' vast treasury of song, these are melodies born directly of the Shakers' spiritual life, yet deeply rooted in the Anglo-American folk tradition - music to cheer the heart and lift the spirit. See more
