The Standing Stones began as Michael Robinson and Vicki Parrish, performing traditional music from Scotland and Ireland, and Canada and Australia where Scottish and Irish music took root during the Gaelic diaspora of the 19th century. We also did a certain amount of early music, and music from other European traditions. Our instruments include fiddle, cello, flute, guitar, mandola, banjo and accordion. At one time we also featured wire-strung and nylon-strung harp. However we are not currently using harp. More recently we have been joined by Cindy Dinga on violin and viola, and Jessica Ollman on fiddle. We are based in the San Francisco Bay area in California.
While others may try to take traditional music into the future, our goal is to take it into the past. We try to join our research on historical performance styles to the living tradition, so that our music can be both exciting and true to its roots. But the most important thing is to enjoy ourselves and to share this beautiful musical heritage with others.
I am thinking of keeping the Web 1.0 look, but maybe tone it down a little. My new HTML editor says there are over 50 errors on this page. I'll have to look into that, I guess. I'll stick with the old DreamWeaver for a while longer.
Information about The Standing Stones and our music:
Coming later.Encyclopedia of Traditional Celtic Music:
Not quite an encyclopedia yet, perhaps, but this is the doorway to a large
and ever-growing collection of interesting information
having to do with traditional music, early music and related topics. It's not so large right now, but I'm in the process of restoring it to its former splendour (such as it was).
Other topics:
Still to come.
Send e-mail to us.
Unfortunately, due to the increasing amount of spam we are receiving, we find it
necessary to protect ourselves from programs that
automatically gather e-mail addresses from the Net. When you click to send us
mail, your browser should automatically generate a blank e-mail message addressed
to music@NOSPAMstandingstones.com.
You need to edit this manually, removing the characters NOSPAM,
before you send the message. I hope this will be sufficient.
Design, HTML programming and some of the artwork by Michael Robinson.
