[MusicFriends] Fredonia Contradance Feb 3 with David Kaynor

[Howard Blumenthal]

Bring your friends and neighbors!!!-Great Music!!!!
February 3, 2006

8PM

Fredonia First Friday Community Contra Dance


Live Music By
Tunescape
http://www.tunescape.org
An innovative new dance band from Western PA, TuneScape nudges the  
border between traditional music and modern groove. Inspired by the  
tunes of Ireland, New England, Quebec, and Appalachia, TuneScape  
creates an unmistakeable sound of power and beauty.


with Internationally known Caller and Fiddler from Greenfield, Mass
David Kaynor
http://www.davidkaynor.com/home.html
Fredonia Grange
58 W. Main St
Fredonia, NY



Everyone welcome-come alone or with friends-
All dances taught and called-easy and fun
info-672-2716


                                                                         
  About TuneScape
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he members of Tunescape share a common vision, and are finding ways to
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reate texture and feeling in a unique blend of instruments and  
percussion.
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hen they first played together they could immediately hear this sound
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ecoming a reality, and it was magical. The discovery of a common musical
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oal was an exciting revelation, and TuneScape was born. TuneScape
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urrently has an ensemble of four musicians that work together to add
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armony and danceable rhythm to tunes both new and traditional.

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uneScape was formed in 2005 by Jodi Blumenthal (piano, fiddle), and John
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iepierski (fiddle). Within a few months, Rachel Bell (flute, accordion)
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egan playing with the group to make a delightful and energetic blend  
of dance
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usic. Tom Santarsiero (mandolin, banjo, guitar, and foot percussion)
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ccasionally joins to add and extra zing to the arrangements.

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odi and Tom were already established players in the traditional New  
England
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ontra dance scene when the band was created. John came on the scene in
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003 at the age of 13, with a fiddling style that soon developed to  
rival that
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f seasoned contra dance veterans. Rachel had been in college studying  
music
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or several years before she began playing dances with TuneScape in June
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005. Her crisp attack of the fingerboard and beautiful chordal  
accents on
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ccordion are a perfect blend with John's fiddle. Rachel also plays  
flute and
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ennywhistle, which gives a fantastic and beautiful variety of sound to
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uneScape.

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 From its inception, TuneScape has been exploring music outside the  
bounds of
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ew England contra dance. Tunes of Quebec, Appalachia, Ireland, and
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lsewhere are woven into their repertoire, and they attempt to stretch  
the
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ormat of traditional dance music. Still, their interest in other genres
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enerates an obsession with rhythmic integrity and the sustaining  
pulse that
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s the essence of dance music. The listener could never miss the  
underlying
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rive of much of TuneScape’s music.