Julia Lane & Fred Gosbee - Ae Fond Kiss

The Night the Whiskey Froze - Fred Gosbee, Stories & Songs

This collection of songs and stories will help you chuckle through the winter. His rendition of The Night Before Christmas - Downeast has become an annual tradition in the mid-coast region of Maine since it was penned in 1992 and there have been innumerable requests for a recording of "that moose song". So here they are, along with 12 other wacky and wonderful winter tales including The Shopping Shanty; and Haul Away Snow both parodies of nautical work songs. From the deep woods there is The Rapogenus Christmas Ball, a poem by Holman Day, and The Frozen Logger, written in the 1950's by James Stevens. The title cut, The Night the Whiskey Froze, was written by local musicians Nick Appolonio and Bob Stuart. Put another log on the fire and have a listen!

Gosbee, creator of The Ballad of Cappy John, recorded the album at his own studio, Harper's Wood, in Round Pond. A group of friends, dubbed the Chowder Chorus, lent their voices to sing along on the refrains. The cover art was created by Tad Lyford of Brunswick whose work has appeared on numerous educational publications for the Maine Maritime Museum and the Department of Conservation. Klarity Multimedia in Vassalboro was the manufacturer making this an all Maine-made product.

This CD package is unique as it doubles as a greeting card. There is space for a personal greeting and a fold-back flap for mailing. Buy the CD, open it and write your message, then reverse the flaps, seal the edges with tape, and mail it to your snow-bird friends in Florida! The 2004 USPS rate to send the package is 60¢.

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The Grand Design - A Scots Irish Journey

Original Soundtrack Music and Lyrics by Julia Lane
Arranged by Fred Gosbee

This music is a soundtrack excerpted from the multimedia historic drama, The Grand Design, which chronicles the fate of a group of Scots-Irish Presbyterians who set out for Philadelphia in 1741. After their ship was disabled by a storm they stranded near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy. Abandoned by their scoundrel captain the survivors were eventually rescued by Passamaquoddy Indians and brought to Colonial St. George and Pemaquid in Maine.

Traditional instruments blend music of the era with original songs to create a musical documentary of early Ulster Scots emigration to New England.

• Julia Lane - Celtic harp & vocals
• Fred Gosbee - viola, violin, flutes, whistles, vocals
• Tamora Goltz - violin
• Doreen Conboy - cello
• Jim Stewart - Bodhran, Northumbrian pipes
• John Bear Mitchell - Passamaquoddy chant & drum
• John Strong, Carl Johanson - vocalists
• Claire Curtis, Alan Davis - chorus