The Connecticut Sound

CT contra dance tunes

CONNtra Dance Tunes Written by CONNecticut CONNtra Dance Musicians

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The Connecticut Sound
Kasha Breau, Jim Condren, Carrie Crompton, David Delaney, Bill Fischer, Lisa Furman, Tahlia Furman
Britt Goodman, Chip Hendrickson, Mike Herr, Dan Hocott, Mickey Koth, Rob Lindauer, Stacy Phillips
David Schonfeld, Barbara Shaw, Julie Sorcek, Roy Watrous, Gary Wikfors, Edgar James Yother V

Selected & edited by Mickey Koth
with assistance from Dan Hocott
Click here for a list of all 91 tunes in The Connecticut Sound.
Click here for a list of errata.

We are soliciting tunes for
The Connecticut Sound Volume 2!

We are seeking tunes written by
Connecticut musicians:
reels, marchs, and jigs
couple dances (tangos, etc.)
waltzes

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Contents of The Connecticut Sound with links to recordings of the tunes!
Reels, Marches, Hornpipes, Rags Big Bill's Barn Buffalo Soldiers Cappy's Hill Cold Harbor Contra Boogie Contra Stomp A Day Before the Pyper Devil with the Dill Pickle Dog Days of August Emmalina Tasker (performed as a song) Flattery Freddy the Flasher Glendiferous Irish Dance January/February March Keg of Rum Liberty City Rag Lulu's Coffee Reel Major Kelly's Quickstep May Tune The Miller's Dance Misery Creek Mountain Food and Gas Myra's Reel A Nod to Phoebe Not So Simple Gifts Peaks of Otter Reel Peepers & Bullfrogs Peg Leg Pet Planxty My New Fiddle Rock the Bow Scratch Your Head Sine Nomine Reel Stump Whiskey The Swamp Fox Très Déçu Turkey Run Reel Typically Mickibly Reel Under the Waterfall The Unmikely Reel Waiting for Tracy The Woodcarver	Jigs Anthony's Jig Bunny and Bear Contrary Mary Double Hex Jig The Eel Pot Tavern The Elfin Wood Finistere Green Tea Heckle & Jekyll & Hyde Hop, Skip and a Healy The Horny Sailor Lucky Girl Jig Lydia Has No Faith in Cats Mig's Jig North Jig Not What I Expected to Hear The Oddfellows in Plainville On Lookout Mountain Partly Sunny Jig The Persistence of Noel Reid The Spitter Spookiscary Jig	Waltzes Arlene's Song Black Bella Cold Hands, Warm Hearts The Connecticut Waltz The Day After December Waltz Drink the Wine Slowly Edna's Vase Ellen's 30th Year Waltz End of an Era For Andes Fran's Waltz Good Friday Hillgrove's Waltz Last Minute Waltz Leaving Home The Path Not Taken Picture Album Pyper Nye Redbud Waltz The Transient's Lament A Twirl Waiting to See You Waltz from Emerald Isle Winter Sunset Winter Warmth The Woman from Windsor Locks

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Even after the most careful proofreading of a book, mistakes are inevitably missed.
Watch this space for a list of corrections and other information about The Connecticut Sound.


p. 8, Emmalina Tasker, line 4, 3rd measure: add a D chord over 2nd half of the measure. (Corrected in the 2nd printing, December 2006)

p. 12, May Tune, line 3, 4th measure: the 3rd 8th note should be an E not D.

p. 20, Scratch Your Head, line 4, 3rd measure: 1st chord should be Cm not Em.

p. 36, North Jig, line 1, 4th measure: 1st beat, add a G chord; 2nd beat, add a D chord

p. 52, For Andes, Coda, 1st measure: add an A chord. (Corrected in the 2nd printing, December 2006)

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This site is to promote contra dance tunes written by Connecticut contra dance musicians. If you are a contra dance musician who lives in Connecticut and have written tunes you'd like to have included in Volume 2 of The Connecticut Sound, please e-mail the website owner and webmistrix.
Last modified January 6, 2022.