Musicians

• Aaron Shaw - Great Highland Bagpipe
  Great Highland Bagpipe
  The Great Highland Bagpipe is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland. It has achieved widespread recognition through its usage in the British military and in pipe bands throughout the world. It is closely related to the Great Irish Warpipes....
  
  
• Warren Patrick Casey - Tapan
  Davul
  The davul or tupan is a large double-headed drum that is played with sticks. It has many names depending on the country and region.-Names:Some names of davuls include:*tupan *davul...
  
  , Bodhran
  Bodhrán
  The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
  
  
• Keith Jones - Snare
  Snare drum
  The snare drum or side drum is a melodic percussion instrument with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or gut cords stretched across the drumhead, typically the bottom. Pipe and tabor and some military snare drums often have a second set of snares on the bottom...
  
  , Djembe
  Djembe
  A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....
  
  
• Jay Atwood - Didgeridoo
  Didgeridoo
  The didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
  
  , Irish Horn
  Dord (musical instrument)
  The dord is a bronze horn native to Ireland, with excavated examples dating back as far as 1000 BC, during the Bronze Age. 104 original dords are known to exist, although replicas have been built since the late 20th century....
  
  

Special guest artists

• Tyler Spencer

Bronze Age Irish Horn in 'Bb': made by Simon O'Dwyer, Galway, Ireland

Didgeridoo in 'Bb': made by Lewis Burns, Queensland, Australia

Slide Didgeridoo: made by Tyler Spencer, Eugene, Oregon

Shakers

• Golden Bough

Margie Butler, vocal, whistle, bodhran

Paul Espinoza, vocals, mando cello & guitar

Kathy Sierra, violin

Credits

Produced by: Thistle Pricks Productions

Recorded on location at various venues across America.

Mixed by: Scott Fraser at Architecture, Los Angeles, CA.
Captured on an Apple Powerbook G3 computer and a FireLite 30 GB hard drive with Digital Performer 3.01, and two "Mark of the Unicorn" (MOTU) 828s. All really great products.

A very special thanks, yet again, to Scott Fraser for his (creative input) ideas and support with the engineering for "On Location Recording". He has been a great resource in the new world of digital recording.

Mastered by: Brian Gardner, Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA.
Graphic Design & Production: Paul Manchester & Warren Casey
Photography: Chris Keeney, San Diego, CA & Matt Mick

Copy Editing: Wendy Weisenberg & Aaron Shaw

Track listing

1. Dream
2. Hey
3. Wicked Tinkers
4. 6/8 Marches
5. Fiollaigean
6. Glasses of Wine
7. Birds
8. Toasty
9. Aaron's Set
10. Farmer
11. Terror Time & Ferret
12. Wicked Bough
13. Drummers Jigs
14. Flower of Scotland & Black Bear
15. Weird Jigs
16. Radar