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Jane Peppler performs and teaches more-or-less traditional music
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I'm a vocal and instrumental musician based in the Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. At Youtube you can see Pratie Head videos and Mappamundi videos...
Types of music:
- Traditional music (world music): Eastern and Western Europe, British Isles, Jewish traditions, music of Colonial America and early North Carolina;
- Early music (Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan);
- Choral music from many traditions
- Miscellaneous folk music and American popular music
My instruments:
- Violin and viola;
- English concertina;
- Piano;
- Appalachian dulcimer (aka lap dulcimer);
- Gadulka - known in Greece as the lyra, this great little member of the vielle/fiddle family was built by Ken Bloom;
- Tenor rebec - built by John Pringle;
Performances
- Wedding Music in North Carolina is the umbrella site for hiring me and my musician friends in NC wedding bands. (I'm putting up our favorite love songs for weddings at the companion site Best wedding songs.) The site features:
- Mappamundi is an ensemble specializing in high energy acoustic "More-or-less Traditional Music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium" - we play concerts, festivals, workshops, and private celebrations of all kinds.
- The Pratie Heads is a British Isles duo (English, Scottish, Irish, and early American music with a few songs and tunes we've written and a few surprises from elsewhere) with Bob Vasile.
- As of spring 2009, I'm "retiring" after fourteen years as director of the Triangle Jewish Chorale.
Solo work:
- I taught at Village Harmony summer sessions in 2005 (teen camp) and 2006 (adult session), presenting, arranging, and conducting songs of English, American, Klezmer/Yiddish, and Mariachi traditions
- I taught vocal classes (including performance master classes, individual tutoring, Balkan singing and Yiddish singalongs) for two summers at Pinewoods camp for the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS).
- I presented a week-long program based on "Songs for Non-Singers" at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- Music of the world for ElderHostel in Chapel Hill
- Fiddling and singing for weddings, parties, even wakes and funerals
- Fiddle workshops
- Songs of Immigration
- Music of the Holocaust
- Songs of the Supernatural
- General international programs
- Music of the British Isles
- Music of early North Carolina
Teaching (adults only)
- Fiddle lessons (adults only)
- Voice lessons
- Coaching vocal and instrumental performers and ensembles.
- "Rise Up Singing" song circle
Contact me for details.
Recordings
- The Solstice Assembly:
- Under the Drawbridge, featured on NPR's Weekend Edition
- Some Assembly Required
- Sedgefield Fair: more or less traditional music of England and Scotland, made with Jacqueline Schwab and Robbie Link.
- Mappamundi's "World Music Our Way," (November 2004).
- The Pratie Heads:
- "We Did It! Songs of People Behaving Badly," (October 2008)
- "Rag Faire" (November 2006)
- A double-cd re-release of 2-1/2 hours of early Pratie Head recordings, "Early Fare."
Visit the Skylark website at
http://skylark2.com to purchase with Paypal. You can also review all the tracks and purchase them individually (or as album downloads, very cheap!) at
Amazon.com (this link takes you to the Pratie Heads, you can search for Mappamundi or my name to get the other albums).
Website design, coding, and management
I enjoy putting together websites and have done them for my own operations and for friends.
Mine
Friends
- Amero Metal Design - John Amero is a great metalworker
- Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart - I built this website for my friend Paul - and I also got Bob (see below) to build the actual pushcart - but sadly, the business never happened. I may keep the site open to sell my original postcards, etc.
- Sheva Zucker - Sheva is my brilliant Yiddish teacher
- Bob Vasile - Bob is my co-Pratie Head, a fabulous bouzouki and guitar player and singer.