23
Mar
Amendment 1
Amendment 10:00/01×
By Bennett Konesni
February 2026
Oh the fun
Oh the fun, Oh the fun
Has just
1 min read
Folk
Traditional folk songs, ballads, and inherited melodies passed down through singers and songbooks. These are the songs that traveled from community to community and survived because people kept singing them.
04
Mar
Bare Bones of Winter
1 min read
21
Mar
Beanhole Beans
1 min read
19
Mar
Cambric Shirt
A version of the ancient riddling ballad also known as 'Scarborough Fair' (Child Ballad 2). Two lovers test
2 min read
04
Mar
Chinquapin Hunting
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Recording is from my album In the Field, In the Dusk, In the Summer.
20
Mar
Come Pretty Love
04
Mar
Embers in the Dark
By Bennett Konesni
February 2023
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Key of C
I = C major
IV = F major
1 min read
21
Mar
Farthest Field
Composed by David Dodson, Camden, Maine
Led here by Mia Bertelli at the Winter Northeast Organic Farmer's conference
1 min read
05
Mar
Fisherman
2 min read
04
Mar
Footprints in the Snow
1 min read
04
Mar
Ghost Thunderbird
2 min read
04
Mar
God Speed the Plough
2 min read
21
Mar
Groundhog
Appalachian old-time modified for the garlic patch
Led by Bennett Konesni with Edith Gawler, Shepsi Eaton, Harbor Eaton, Noah Fishman,
2 min read
21
Mar
Hal an Tow
2 min read
05
Mar
Holy Order Song
A Shaker hymn from the United Society of Believers. This sacred song was used during worship meetings where believers would
1 min read
04
Mar
Huckleberry Hunting
1 min read
04
Mar
I Love You Simply
1 min read
23
Mar
In Dangerous Times
By Ali Burns, Scotland
Support her work and hear her version here!
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3 min read
21
Mar
Jordan Road
Dan Emmett (1853), recorded by Uncle Dave Macon and His Fruit-Jar Drinkers (1927)
The song was originally written by Dan
2 min read
23
Mar
Lamb and Lion
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When lamb and lion lie down together
Joy and wonders
1 min read
04
Mar
Mountain Mover
By Bennett Konesni
May 2021
On the Schooner J&E Riggin
Penobscot Bay
Mountain Mover0:00/288.173561×
Vox
2 min read
21
Mar
My Heart is Ready
1 min read
04
Mar
Oak Tree
1 min read
23
Mar
One By One Everyone Comes To Remember
By Michael Stillwater, Inner Harmony Music, BMI
Please check out his site, rich with many more songs and recordings.
One
1 min read
20
Mar
Ruby Sugaroo
Collected all over North America, notably on Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine near Acadia National Park. This song
1 min read
05
Mar
Satisfy Yourself
1 min read
21
Mar
Simple Gifts
The beloved Shaker hymn by Elder Joseph Brackett Jr. of Maine, written in 1848.
1 min read
21
Mar
Sing Round
A Maine lumberjack song following timber from forest to mill to payday.
2 min read
21
Mar
Sowing Grain
1 min read
04
Mar
The Lesson
2 min read
04
Mar
The Postcard
1 min read
04
Mar
The Senses
3 min read
21
Mar
The Wellerman
2 min read
25
Apr
The White Whale
By Bennett Konesni
3/11/2008
Guitar & Lead Vocal: Bennett Konesni
Fiddle: Mia Friedman
Cello: Ariel Friedman
Mandolin &
2 min read
17
Jan
Trials, Troubles, Tribulations
Trials, troubles, tribulations
Such as never been before
When the angels pour upon us
Their vows of dread forevermore
When
1 min read
20
Mar
Walk Along Talk Along
A walking song / sea shanty from Carrie Grover, who walked from Halifax to New Brunswick to Maine with her father
1 min read
05
Mar
Welcome Back
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By Bennett Konesni
September 2024
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
Welcome Back
2 min read
04
Mar
Western Wind
1 min read
20
Mar
When Them Taters Are All Dug
A Maine potato harvest ballad collected in Aroostook County from a migrant farm worker who had no money at the
2 min read