AILEEN
VANCE
Recordings & Sheet Music
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NEW SONG BOOK OUT MAY,
2011!
"Bring the Choir! Rounds &
Cyclical Songs for Community Singing"
INCLUDES new rounds, plus those from original limited self-published
edition: Summit Lake, Winter
Holidays Round, Make Room, Four Principles, The Pledge, Symphony
Butterfly, The Return & others. New artwork, songs,
notes. Spiral bound on fine paper.
$20. plus s/h
From simple "street-corner rounds" to more challenging 4-part songs,
this
collection proves that it's not just your mother's "Row, Row, Row Your
Boat" anymore.
NOTE: I am also happy to fill
orders the Old-School Way. Contact me directly for mail-order &
bulk order discount pricing. I have had some trouble getting
PayPal to
calculate shipping correctly, so have finally set up the button to
reflect inclusion of
shipping & handling on each option. Contact me: avandlt@cruzio.com.
SHEET
MUSIC: All
my compositions and a few choral arrangements are available for
community
choirs (SAB & SATB) and rounds aficionados. Please contact me
for pricing. I will post an updated list here asap. THANKS!
Sheet music currently available:
Let
Justice Roll Down (SAB +guitar)
Rise Up & Sing! (JS Bach/A. Vance) (SATB)
We Will Love or We Will Perish SATB (Seeger/Bach-by permission--nfs,
but will share with community choirs-mailing costs only)
Step by Step (trad./Vance) (SATB)
Rounds book and sheet music may be ordered directly from Avenida Music.
For More info: avandlt@cruzio.com
RECORDINGS:
Sweet Life
Her
most recent album is called "Sweet Life" and represents the culmination
of a lifetime along the central coast of California, where Aileen works
and lives with her husband and two young sons. This dynamic collection
features songs that speak about a sense of place, the honoring of
wilderness and a celebration of the human spirit. Backup work by two of
Canada's premiere folk artists, Eileen
McGann and David K.,
combine with Aileen's masterful vocals and lyrics to make this by far
her finest recording to
date. Tracks: As I Passed Down by Backwaterside, Waterfall,
An Eye
for an Eye, Here I Walk, Prayer, Tortillas and Beans, Meadows
Road,
Visions of Their Own, Talkin' Role Reversal, When I'm Gone (Ochs), My
Friends,
Sweet Life
After the Night
Aileen
began her career as an interpreter of other people's songs, but is also
a powerful writer herself. Her second album, "After the Night,"
showcases some of her finest work, and includes songs about women's
courage, the natural world, global harmony, and human relationships. A
high point is the spine-chilling "In the Country of the Savior," about
the tragedy of El Salvador. (This
song and the title cut won her the coveted KERRVILLE FOLK FESTIVAL "New
Folk" award in 1990.)
The
album also features vocal and instrumental contributions by Chilean
master musician and composer Rafael Manriquez, (formerly of GRUPO
RAIZ,) with whom Aileen occasionally tours. The haunting and
exhilarating music of Latin America
forms an important strand in Aileen's repertoire; in addition to her
work
with Manriquez, she also does a bilingual music program for elementary
school
children. Tracks: Voices in the Chorus (Vance/Humphries), Clearing
the
Path, Hard Working Hands, We are Alive and Singing, In the Country of
the
Savior, She's Like a Swallow (trad), Amarok (Magpie), Letting You Go, A
Pesar
de los Males (Lecarra), After the Night
Take a Step
Aileen's sense of wonder is evident in "Take a Step," the self-penned
title cut of her first album. Written as much for herself as for
others, "Take a Step" is about taking risks and overcoming fear. Aileen
likes to quote
Georgia O'Keefe, the famous painter, who said, "I've been afraid every
single
day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway." Tracks: Take
a Step, Your Daughters andYour Sons (T. Sands), The Strength to
Keep Going, Keep That Dream, Going Home, The
Field Behind the Plow (Rogers), Turn Your Gaze to the Moon,
Grandma'sBattlecry (Tilsen/Paull), All These Fragments, A Sailor's
Prayer
(MacDonald)
