La nostra musica è dolce come le fragole e travolgente come una tempesta.

Sparkling spirit & veritable vagabond Mary Beth Carty paints with a rainbow palette of roots-music motifs, fusing traditional song, instrumental tunes, & songwriting. An accordionist with a bag of pocket-sized instruments & a dedication to cultural-ecology, she brings joy to audiences of all ages, drawing them into an upbeat journey of emotions, times, & places.

Mary Beth is currently in production for her second solo album featuring Cape Breton’s best musicians and sound engineers. Stay tuned for album theme, title, and release date!

Mary Beth has performed well over 500 shows in her long-spanning career, and has had the opportunity to tour in North America, Europe, and Africa. Her debut solo album, 2017’s Les biens-nommés, earned nominations at the Nova Scotia Music Awards and the ECMA’s. It features original, accordion-fueled songs in French and English, with Donald MacLennan on violin and the Melchin brothers on double-bass and percussion.

As a member of now defunct duo Bette & Wallet, Mary Beth was nominated Traditional Singer of the Year at the 2009 Canadian Folk Music Awards. Her voice has been described as passionate and mesmerizing. Their most popular song, “Squeegees,” transforms a public domain French-Canadian song into a humorous, bilingual anthem about urban winter hardships.

In addition to her work as a solo artist, Mary Beth is in demand as a guitar accompanist for fiddlers and has performed with many of the best. She is known for her distinct, rhythmic style, keen ear, and mastery of the unusual DADGAD tuning.

Suonatore di organetto cromatico e fisarmonica, musica folk tradizionale e balfolk.

Schmidley Smichkey, a.k.a Benjamin Lovett, is a composer, sound designer, multi-genre violinist with a penchant for quirky sounds, silly humor, and loose-leaf tea.  

His music combines acoustic and electronic sounds into an off-beat, playful, and densely layered infusion that sings, creaks, booms, and rattles.

Un percorso di sonorità dell'Est e del Nord: dalle danze israeliane al klezmer, la musica degli ebrei di lingua yiddish che hanno attraversato l'Europa, e quindi dalla troika russa fino alle danze scandinave, come le polske svedesi. Se da una parte il suono del clarinetto, della fisarmonica e del violino ci porta ad Est, tra le carovane degli zingari nomadi, dall'altra il suono glaciale delle nyckelharpe ci porta a Nord nelle foreste di abeti e nei piccoli visstuga dove gli spelmän intonano melodie antiche.

Vaganto è un quartetto bellunese che propone musiche per danze klezmer e danze scandinave, in esperanto "vaganto" significa "vagabondo" ed è proprio vagabondando, in un viaggio senza confini, che la musica delle tradizioni ha la capacità di trasportare musicisti, ascoltatori e ballerini.

Starting from the primordial sounds we are trying to highlight the constant need to review our own traditions with a sense of duty to their changes  to keep them  alive in each present. Physical and mental boundaries in Istria are constantly  adapting to the current political needs, so they still remain the main enemy.  We are crossing over them, smuggling thought  culture and dreams, being consistently on the losing side. That’s why the title of the album is [3 = 1 = n (Music for Minorities and Losers)]. It represents  three severed and broken Istrias  as just a single one, but with n cultural micro realities.

DARIO MARUŠIĆ: fiddle, bariton violin, istrian shawms, bagpipe, vocal

GORAN FARKAŠ: whistle, shawm, vocal

SAŠA FARKAŠ: guitar, tamboura

GORAST RADOJEVIČ: bass guitar

LJUBAN RAJIĆ: percussions

RACHELE COLOMBO: percussions, vocal

BORIS BAKO: speech

 

Music: Traditional/Dario Marušić except 2b, 3, 5, 8, 10b, 13, 14  Dario  Marušić

Lyrics: Traditional except 7, 8, 13, 14 Dario  Marušić

All recordings  are branded Made in Istria.

Mixed and mastered at Parametrik studio in Prešnica, Slovenia. Mixed by Gorast Radojevič. Mastered by Gaber Radojevič

Produced by Dario Marušić and Gorast Radojevič


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