Episode 25 - Jeremiah McLane

Contra Pulse

The intro and interstitial tracks from today’s episode are Honey in the Woodpile/Grinding Stone from Jeremiah’s latest solo album The Grinding Stone, Sri Bubba from The Clayfoot Strutters’ 2002 album Going Elsewhere, June from Jeremiah’s first solo album Freetown, Flying Tent from Nightingale’s album Three, and La Crouzade, a single recorded by Jeremiah’s band Triton.

See the Contra Pulse website for transcripts and more.

And the Country Dance and Song Society for information about Contra and English country dance across the continent.

See and hear Jeremiah McLane in action:

• Find Jeremiah’s music on his own website. He has so many bands and musical collaborations! To name a few:
• Jeremiah and his wife, pianist Annemieke McLane, play as a duo
• Here’s his (Mc)trio Kalos with guitarist Eric McDonald and fiddler Ryan McKasson playing a set of Celtic tunes.
• His band Triton (with Timothy Cummings and Alex Kehler) made a music video featuring the set of of bourées you heard in this episode
• Jeremiah is virtuosic with French accordion music - check out this video from Acadia Trad School in 2018
• Doug Plummer made this beautiful video of Nightingale playing a contra dance in Tacoma, WA.
• Here are the Clayfoot Strutters tearing up the big hall at the Dance Flurry in 2014

Some other people and topics mentioned in this interview:

• Jeremiah cites huge influence from Dudley Laufman on his path to becoming a contra dance musician. Julie interviewed Dudley in the very first episode of this podcast!
• Jeremiah sat in with the band Fresh Fish and mentions caller and fiddler Kerry Elkin, who brought together Irish music and contra dance music in an important way
• Hear more about the Clayfoot Strutters’ appearance at Maine’s Downeast Country Dance Festival in Pete Sutherland’s words in Episode 20 of Contra Pulse