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Mixed -Up Strings
Songs and music from
A Simple Life

Mixed-Up Strings is an acoustic music club featuring the mountain dulcimer. They meet twice a month in Barberton, Ohio. The soundtrack for A Simple Life was recorded by 16 members of the club at WZIP-FM on April 16 and 30, 2002.

Members of the club participating in the recording were:

Larry Burns - guitar
Margie Ellison
- dulcimette, dulcimer
Georgia Eshelman
- guitar, vocals
Bobbi Finley - dulcimer
Vic Gombaski
- dulcimer
David Halter
- dulcimer
Ray Halter - guitar, harmonica, vocals
Gene Johnson - guitar

Jim Mullin - dulcimer
Rita Schrimpf - dulcimer
Doug Smoot
- dulcimer
Mary Thompson
- flute, whistle, lap harp, vocals
Rod Thompson
- washtub bass
Connie Webster
- dulcimer, mandolin, mandola
Sylvia White - dulcimer, baritone, dulcimer
Ellen Williams - hammer dulcimer

For more information about Mixed-Up Strings and a current concert schedule, please visit
http://www3.uakron.edu/schlcomm/White/mixed.htm

 

Song List

  1. Stuffed Cabbage Medley -Traditional American
    Ensemble, lead dulcimer: Vici
  2. Simple Gifts -Shaker Hymn
    Georgia, Ray, Vici, Doug
  3. Lonely Trail to Harrison Town
    Connie, Gene
  4. Banks of the Ohio -Traditional American
    Vici, Sylvia
  5. Once Upon a Time - c. Eshelman
    Georgia, Doug
  6. 28th of January -Traditional American
    Doug, Gene
  7. Monarch at the Milkweed -Mullin
    Ensemble, lead dulcimer: Jim
  8. Wayfaring Stranger -Traditional American
    Jim
  9. 9 Southwind -Traditional Irish
    Ensemble, lead guitar: Georgia
  10. Cluck Old Hen - Traditional American
    Connie, Gene, Doug
  11. You Shall Love - c. Eshelman
    Georgia, Mary, Ray
  12. Celtic Medley -Traditional Irish
    Vici, Ellen, Larry
  13. Wildwood Flower -Traditional American
    Ensemble, lead dulcimer: Jim
  14. Scarborough Fair -Traditional English
    Margie
  15. I Want Jesus to Walk with Me -Traditional African American
    Vici
  16. Simple Gifts (Reprise) -Shaker
    Ensemble, lead dulcimer: Vici
  17. Suzanna Gal -Traditional American
    Ensemble, lead dulcimer: Doug

 

 

Photo ©2000, Doyle Yoder Productions, Inc. For more about Doyle Yoder’s Amish photos, please visit www.ohioamish.com Photo was taken from the book America’s Amish Country II, published by America’s Amish Country Publications

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