Portsmouth, NH
Joe Simes has done those of us in the seacoast area who love to listen to and play folk music a great service by providing the ideal venue. The audience he attracts is a performer’s dream- attentive, knowledgeable, supportive (and, apparently and thankfully, forgiving!). Ken Perlman has taken the clawhammer banjo style to amazing and … Read more
Jeanne McCartin wrote this very nice piece in Dec. 18th’s issue of the Portsmouth Herald. Thanks, Jeanne!
Just in time for the Portsmouth Maritime Folk Festival, Dave Hallowell, Peter Hale, Mike Jenneau and Alan Eaton, collectively known as Mudhook, have completed the special ‘collector’s edition’ of their new CD, here at Mill Pond Music. With charming, mostly traditional material, ringing guitars and bouzoukis, sweet fiddles, haunting low whistle and vocals sometimes rowdy, … Read more
Brendan’s exquisite, delicate guitar playing, sweet vocals can be heard on the four tracks he recorded here. Follow this link to his website and click ‘listen’ on his his website. The two B & K 4011 mics, with ruler-flat response, did a nice job of capturing the brilliant sound of his small-bodied guitar. The solid … Read more
Mill Pond Music is a recording studio located in Portsmouth NH, a minute’s drive from picturesque and bustling Market Square, and situated on the banks of the North Mill Pond in a vintage factory building. The studio is equipped with a carefully selected array of microphones of exquisite quality, the finest of microphone pre-amps and … Read more
“Thanks so much for your great work! I’m not so much talking about the finished product (terrific!), but the process- respectful, unhurried, caring, artistic- which infuses and is forever captured in the finished product.” Mary Beth Stone, regional coordinator Nashville Songwriters’ Assoc. Int’l. New York City “Thank you so very much…Besides your wonderful playing and … Read more