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Local musician creates CD of local Civil War history

By DAVE McMILLION
MARCH 18, 2010
davem@herald-mail.com

HAGERSTOWN — Local tourism officials could have produced another brochure about Washington County’s Civil War history.

But Tom Riford wanted to do it in song.

When Riford, president and CEO of the Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and Visitors Bureau, started talking with local musician Jennie Avila about her interest in writing some music related to the war, they decided to produce an entire CD.

Avila relied on local Civil War history and resources to produce the CD....

Christina dreamed up a collaboration involving her talented Mama, Ann Mayo Muir, and her Grammy Nominated pals, Ensemble Galilei - www.EGMusic.com - to create a gorgeous instrumental CD, "Notes From Across The Sea." Celtic harp, fiddle, recorder, whistle, oboe, guitar, percussion and viola da gamba (a cello-like instrument) weave together to render Ann's original, instrumental music. Gordon Bok describes it as, "...a feast for the musical gourmet!"

Twist The Devil's Tail (on my NEW CD!) by Ann Mayo Muir

Winter's Blanket by Ann Mayo Muir

LAMENT FOR ANDREA by Ann Mayo Muir

A LOVE SONG FOR MY SAILOR by Ann Mayo Muir

We had a fabulous CD Release Celebration

                    on Monday, January 11, 2010 

It was a special presentation by the 333 Coffeehouse at

the Annapolis Unitarian Church. 

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Jennie Avila's new CD was inspired by true Civil War

stories from the Antietam Battlefield region, and is

sponsored by The Hagerstown-Washington County

Convention and Visitors Bureau...

 

The Songs:

1. Breakfast at The Heck’s (Two brothers fight on opposite sides

    and go AWOL to have breakfast at home)

2. The Carpenter (The Boonsborough Museum of History houses

    a desk made from the scaffold that hung John Brown)

3. A Bullet Lives On (Soldiers carved bullets into necessities and

    novelties)

4. To Clara Barton (Inspired by letters that list the humble donations

    Clara Barton used to help the thousands of wounded on the

    battlefields)

5. Warrior Spirit and The Keeper of The Bones (A ghost story)

6. Bonus Track: Hey Little Heiskell (Jennie's whimsical

    hypothesis that links the shooting of a weathervane and the

    ransoming of Hagerstown)

All songs © Jennie Avila

CDs are available online at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/javila4

You can also send a check for $11.50 per CD

($10 CD and $1.50 shipping) to:

Jennie Avila, 15 Sycamore St, Hagerstown, MD 21740

The Cd will also be available at: Live Performances,

The Hagerstown-Washington County Convention and

                            Visitors Bureau, Hagerstown, MD

The Gifts Inn in Boonsborough, MD

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Sue Trainor's New CD "IN OUR OWN WORDS"is available 

at CDBaby.com

Also check out Sue's new website at www.SueTrainor.com