Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society
FOLK MUSIC RECORDINGS - 2007 NEW RELEASE

GARLIC and ANGELS

Garlic and Angels is a brand new album (released in November 2007) produced by Willow Street Music for members of the Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society performing group pictured above (from top left to right: Bob Miller, Karen Dunstan and Jerry Gallagher; and from bottom left to right: Kristin Benjamin, Len Christman and Jack Vass). The album contains 17 original songs and the music reflects the unique and varied folk and country music styles of these talented members of the Society who make up the performing group. Included are three "garlic songs", composed by group members for the Stroudsburg Garlic Festival and various songs about "angels" who have touched the lives of ther composers.

The album features the vocal melodies and harmonies of the songwriters and all instrumental accompaniment and harmony voices are performed by the Lehigh Valley Folk Music Society performing group members pictured above and some guest musicians (Mr. John Wesley Dickson and Dr. Ken Levin). Except for electric bass guitar, all instrumentation is acoustic and recorded live by microphone in the studio. The instrumentats feature acoustic 6 and 12-string guitars (all Martins), a Gibson mandolin, a Bart Reiter open back 5-string banjo, a Beard Dobro, an original Weissenborn Hawaiian slide guitar, a blues Hohner blues harp, an Epiphone electric bass and concert and tenor flutes.

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