{"id":39,"date":"2007-07-18T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/&#038;p=39"},"modified":"2021-07-26T23:04:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T03:04:57","slug":"the-portland-collection-contra-dance-music-real-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/the-portland-collection-contra-dance-music-real-books\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portland Collection Contra Dance Music Real Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago a soundman and good friend of mine ,Dave Fagan, played a CD through the sound system that immediately caught my attention. It sounded great and I asked him what it was. He said it was &#8220;Contra Dance Music&#8221; I had never heard of it before. After talking more about it, he recommended these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theportlandcollection.com\/\">two books.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re called the Portland Collection, Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest. I&#8217;ve been working out of them over the last few weeks and love the style of music in them. They are filled with reels and jigs&#8230;&#8230; Great melodies! The thing I love about them is that I have never played anything like them before. On their website there are audio clips so you can hear what the music sounds like. It&#8217;s adding a dimension to my playing that I&#8217;m looking forward to mixing with my jazz playing. Check them out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a year ago a soundman and good friend of mine ,Dave Fagan, played a CD through the sound system that immediately caught my attention. It sounded great and I asked him what it was. He said it was &#8220;Contra Dance Music&#8221; I had never heard of it before. After talking more about it, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[2069,37,2066,2064,40,2065,2067,2068],"class_list":{"0":"post-39","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-book-reviews","7":"tag-clyde-curley","8":"tag-contra-dance","9":"tag-jigs","10":"tag-pacific-northwest","11":"tag-portland-collection","12":"tag-real-books","13":"tag-reels","14":"tag-susan-songer","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}