Jim & Maggi Dalton: Recordings and Sound Clips

Jim & Maggi Dalton

Singing String Music

Performance/Production
Publishing/Studio

Concerts, Workshops & Residencies

Understanding History Thru Music ™

Specialists in 19th- & Early 20th-Century Music
From Parlor and Stage

American & Celtic Traditions
Period Instruments *** Historically-Informed Performance

Mailing address:

Singing String Music *** 203 Washington St. #263, Salem MA 01970

Repertoire

Musical Styles Jim and Maggi perform include,
but are not limited to:

* Classic American popular styles, all eras

* "classical" repertoire (cultivated styles, both modern and historical)

* New Music (contemporary compositions)

* historically-important styles/repertoire (i.e., vaudeville, Victorian parlor songs)

* blues; jazz; gospel; folk-rock

* Great American Songbook and Tin Pan Alley

* show/musical theater repertoire

* adult/contemporary standards

* Early Music; sacred; folk

Instrumentaion

Voice ** Guitar ** Renaissance Lute ** mandolin
banjo ** bouzouki ** charango
** and other plucked strings ** percussion ** piano
Concerts presented with commentary.
Storytelling where appropriate.
Some programs are presented in costume.

Jim and Maggi Dalton perform music of popular/vernacular, folk and cultivated traditions --
covering time periods from the Middle Ages to the present, focusing largely on American, Celtic and British Isles repertoire.

They specialize in music of the 19th and 20th centuries. Instrumentation: mostly plucked strings and voices.

Concerts and programs contain commentary designed to place the music performed in historical context for the audience.

Programs reflect the continual and ongoing research in which the two delight. They also perform original songs and compositions.

Jim and Maggi have released two recordings to date, and have designed a full spectrum of programs which they present nationwide.

They have been featured often on radio and television.
(PBS,ABC,NBC, CBS affiliates, Cable Networks; NPR stations,NewsRadio, interview programs across the USA; feature stories in newspapers and magazines, i.e., The Philadelphia Inquirer & Courier-Post)

Programs--Downloadable PDF form

PLEASE NOTE: THESE EXCERPTS REPRESENT JUST A FEW OF THE GENRES WE PERFORM. (see above for list...)

ADDITONAL SOUNDFILES REPRESENTING MORE STYLES WILL BE ON THIS PAGE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.

Song: "October" (original, ballad) (A wedding anniversary gift to each other)

Song: "GOD MOVES ON THE WATER" (blues)

Song: "HORNPIPE MEDLEY" (traditional)

Song: "WHEN I WAS A FAIR MAID" (traditional, Irish)

Song: "DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS" (traditional, words by W.B. Yeats)

Song: "SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE A MOTHERLESS CHILD" (Spiritual)

ORDER JIM'S BOOK HERE....

Jim's book,

Mandolin for Beginners, has been published by the National Guitar Workshop
and is selling very well!

It's available online and in retail stores both nationally and internationally.

You can learn everything from how to hold/ tune a mandolin, how read tablature and strum -- to reading music, tremolo techniques, improvising.

Jim packed it full of interesting tunes and practical advice...and his trademark mellow humor shines thru, too. There's a CD in it, so you can hear as well as read all the good stuff in the book.

48 pages Book & CD

Order it online: NGW Store