Jane Peppler performs and teaches
more-or-less traditional music

I'm a vocal and instrumental musician based in the Durham-Chapel Hill area of North Carolina.

Types of music:

Traditional music (world music): Eastern and Western Europe, British Isles, Jewish traditions, music of Colonial America and early North Carolina;
Early music (Medieval, Renaissance, Elizabethan);
Choral music from many traditions
Miscellaneous folk music and American popular music

Violin and viola;
English concertina;
Piano;
Appalachian dulcimer (aka lap dulcimer);
Gadulka - known in Greece as the lyra, this great little member of the vielle/fiddle family was built by Ken Bloom;
Tenor rebec - built by John Pringle;

Mappamundi is an ensemble specializing in high energy acoustic "More-or-less Traditional Music of the Northern Hemisphere and the Previous Millennium" - we play concerts, festivals, workshops, and private celebrations of all kinds. Here is our Electronic Press Kit.
The Pratie Heads is a British Isles duo (English, Scottish, Irish, and early American music with a few songs and tunes we've written and a few surprises from elsewhere) with Bob Vasile.
You can also find us at MySpace. Here is our Electronic Press Kit.
The Triangle Jewish Chorale rehearses with me at Temple Judea Reform.
Solo work:
- I taught at Village Harmony summer sessions in 2005 (teen camp) and 2006 (adult session), presenting, arranging, and conducting songs of English, American, Klezmer/Yiddish, and Mariachi tradition
- I taught vocal classes (including performance master classes, individual tutoring, Balkan singing and Yiddish singalongs) for two summers at Pinewoods camp for the Country Dance and Song Society (CDSS).
- I presented a week-long program based on "Songs for Non-Singers" at the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching
- Music of the world for ElderHostel in Chapel Hill
- Fiddling and singing for weddings, parties, even wakes and funerals
- Fiddle workshops
- Songs of Immigration
- Music of the Holocaust
- Songs of the Supernatural
- General international programs
- Music of the British Isles
- Music of early North Carolina

Contact me for details.

Skylark Productions, begun long ago by Pat Sky with his field recordings of Irish traditional musicians, has my recordings for sale, including:

The Solstice Assembly's Under the Drawbridge, which was featured on NPR's Weekend Edition, and Some Assembly Required
Sedgefield Fair: more or less traditional music of England and Scotland, made with Jacqueline Schwab and Robbie Link.
Mappamundi's "World Music Our Way," (November 2001).
The Pratie Heads' "Rag Faire" (November 2006) and double-cd re-release of 2-1/2 hours of early Pratie Head recordings, "Early Fare."

Visit the Skylark website at http://skylark2.com for more details and sound samples (mp3).

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