Hello Dana - AMTA (France) and CubeRoots (UK), previously mentioned, are pretty standard sources for recordings by the top French trad?players. AMTA is the official source for recordings by Bouffard, Chabenat, Anne-Lise Foy, La Chavannee, Vielleux de Bourbonnais, etc., and they are a basically non-profit association to support the musicians. However, at least as of a year ago, their shipping costs to the US were painfully overpriced, for no obvious reason (you would pay almost as much for the shipping as for the cost of the CD). So CubeRoots is probably a more reasonable source, although their selection of AMTA recordings is not as complete as AMTA's. Also, you don't need to understand French to use CubeRoots, which overcomes a limitation for some buyers.
Are these recordings available from US distributors or shops? No. Available on Amazon? No. Not even Amazon France? No. You get them from Europe, period. I should also mention that a lot of the great recordings are out of print. I would like to point you to my website, www.frenchtradmusic.com, where I offer CD copies of out-of-print French trad recordings that were originally?on cassette or LP. Look at the Mitch Gordon music link on the site for these. Also, our Paris-area gurdy player friend Jean-Michel Peru, who is a scholar of French trad and has put out some terrific recordings with his bandmates of Carre de Deux on a little homegrown label, AEPEM, sells through his sister-in-law in northern California, so you can get these recordings from her?without paying Euro prices or shipping from France. See the Claudia Schiller link on my site. Also have a look at the Alan Keith music link, where you can get the recordings from two great California-based French trad bands, Tour de France and French Creek (the latter featuring our list's own wonderful Penny Cloud). Mitch Gordon Guerneville, California, US -----Original Message----- From: Dana R Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: HG-Mailing List <hg@hurdygurdy.com> Sent: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 1:10 pm Subject: [HG] HG CDs Greetings, I'm new to the HG world having recently ordered a Chinook model from Olympic Instruments. I am no stranger to traditional folk/dance music, having played bass guitar and 104 key German Concertina in a polka band in the 70s, and traditional Irish and Scottish music on button accordion, bagpipes and bodhran in the 80s. I'm anxious to start learning the HG and have the following question. I can't find any CDs featuring HG. Olympic and Wee Piper no longer carry them and I've found nothing on iTunes. Is there any place in the LA area that might carry this item? I would especially like to get the new one with Bouffard and Chabonet together. I watch the OTW video with them all the time. What a performance! Any suggestions will be helpful. Thanks Dana G
