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They play Irish, Scottish and Capeīreton instrumental music with warmth and joy, as well as the occasional song.ĭexter first came to Irish music when he played for contra dances around the valley, and the session at May Kelly’s deepened his focus on the Irish tradition.įiona grew up playing flute through Mountain Top Music Center, and went on to study music at Loyola University.
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White Mountain Ceilí Band is Dexter Harding on the tenor banjo, Fiona Howell on the flute, Siena Kaplan-Thompson on the fiddle, and Mike Levine on the guitar and occasional concertina. Have been playing nearly every weekend around New England and were invited to play the 14th Annual Roots on the River Festival. Two of their songs are featured on The Shoulder to the Plough CD, which was recorded live at the Rockingham Meeting House in 2011. Mike and Jan have added several notches to their musical belt, including closing for Billy Bragg as part of a WOOL Black Sheep Radio fundraiser and opening for Fred Eaglesmith at The Shoulder to the Plough concert, whichīenefitted the farmers devastated by Hurricane Irene. With Jan on bass, they honed their sound and played their first show as The Milkhouse Heaters in 2010. Mike bought an acoustic guitar,Īnd began writing Americana songs. This is where the humble seeds of The Milkhouse Heaters were planted.
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Mike and Jan bought land in rural Vermont in 2003 and started building their home, doing most of the work themselves. Their music has been licensed to television shows on ABC, VH1, MTV, ESPN, and ESPN 2. Love and Special Sauce, Jack Johnson, Burning Spear, and The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones. Their songs are on numerous compilationsĪlongside the likes of G. They have shared the stage with The Black Crowes, Corey Glover, Fuel, Feeder, and Hum as well as playing the Boston leg of The Vans Warped Tour. They received airplay on several of the city’s radio stations and were nominatedįor a Boston Music Award in 2001. They could often be found kicking around the Boston music scene. In the early days, Mike played bass while Jan sang lead and played guitar. He fits in.about as well as he would anywhere I guess. He comes from a part of Vermont he affectionately refers to as “the dirty south”, where Dickensian odd-balls are more common than farmers and ski bums. Fear, weirdness, and alienation, all wrapped up in love."- Mark Piepkorn, Stage 33 Live, Bellows Falls, VT.ĭylan Patrick Ward has never drank 100 beers in one day, but sometimes he feels like a snowman made of slush from the side of the road, slowly melting as winter turns to spring, so his songs are autobiographical.in aĪfter years spent trying his hand at acting, stand-up, sketch comedy, film making, fiction writing and cartooning, and many failed attempts at starting bands, Dylan found his niche in the age-old art of sitting alone withĮqual parts humor and heart, Dylan's highly specific, melodic tales of lovable losers draw from a wide range of influences, chief among them John Prine, the Mountain Goats, Nikolai Gogol and The Simpsons. Dylan Patrick Ward: "Lyrically clever as hell, wicked funny, wicked dark.