A couple of years ago I was performing with clawhammer banjoist Ken Perlman at the fabulous New World Festival in Randolph VT, and had the great fortune to wind up in a jam session with the members of Cantrip. They are a superb Scottish/American trio who play traditional Celtic instrumental music with a distinctly contemporary energy and drive, on fiddle, pipes, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, whistles and flute. Plus, they offer some fine song arrangements. Listen below to a few of a CD’s worth of tracks they recorded in just two very productive days in Mill Pond Music’s soon-to-be-legendary 🙂 Live Room.
