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Beautiful Jo Records
Here's what the label has to say about themselves:
Reflecting a rich tradition -
We are an Oxford (United Kingdom) based label with a fast-growing catalogue of folk, acoustic, classical and period music.
'Apparently a label unafraid to take risks, Beautiful Jo, in addition to providing a home for a series of esoteric and eccentric releases, is also responsible for some of contemporary folk's finer moments' - Rock 'n' Reel
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Titles from Beautiful Jo that we currently stock. Click on the image to get more info and some audio samples. Listen to a few full songs while you browse
 Six for Gold - Magpie Lane $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-magpie-gold) The sixth album by Oxfordshire six-piece band is a journey through the English folk tradition. Founder members Ian Giles, Mat Green and Andy Turner are joined now by Marguerite Hutchinson, Sophie Polhill and Benji Kirkpatrick. 
 Knock at the Knocker, Ring at the Bell - Magpie Lane $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-knock) As in theor previous holiday recording, Wassail! A Country Christmas (1995), this CD features traditional carols, along with secular songs and dance tunes appropriate for Christmas and the Winter season. Many of the carols were collected from rural singers roughly one hundred years ago; the songs themselves were even then somewhat archaic, and had been left behind by changing popular taste. However some of the songs here, although they date back a couple of centuries, are still sung today, as part of vigorous community carolling traditions.
 Come Dancing - Climax Ceilidh Band $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-climax) The band says: "The band started when two trios, Meridian and Pesky, decided to play together in one band and Climax was born. The band prides itself on its fine mixture of self-penned tunes with traditional material and playing 'live' is as exciting for them as for the dancers.... a group of highly skilled musicians who are musically responsive to each other and are able to trust the spontaneity within each of them to take ceilidh music into new dimensions. The driving rhythms of the accordion and guitar, the sweet sound of the dancing fiddles, the swift trill of the flute and the power of the pipes makes the Climax Ceilidh Band experience truly orgasmic." - Anna Tabbush (fiddle), Holly Sheldrake (fiddle), Richard Jones (accordion), Mark 'Swerve' Weaver (guitar) and Chris Walshaw (pipes and whistles)
 The Dawn Songs - Vivien Ellis $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-dawn) Well known for her work with Alva, Sinfonye and The Dufay Collective, she is equally at ease with world music, mediaeval songs and contemporary ballads she interprets an astonishing range of material in her new, multi-genre CD. The album encompasses the English tradition, Brazilian samba; Appalachian spiritual; troubadour song in Occitan; Irish, Scots/Gaelic and Bulgarian folk music, as well as new dawn songs by contemporary writers. With instrumentation that includes fiddle, accordion, guitars, drums and electric bass, lute and viol, loops and effects – this is a richly varied album that embraces both the spare beauty of ancient song and full-on 21st century soundscapes.
 Ca Nos - Fernhill $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-fernhill-canos)
 Llatai - Fernhill $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-fernhill-llatai)
 One Sunday Afternoon - Tim van Eyken and Robert Harbron $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-sunday) Two rising stars of the acoustic music scene come together in an album that combines consummate musicianship with an instinctive feel for traditional material. The deftly-played instrumental sets draw on English, French and Swedish roots, while the songs are enriched by Tim's voice - warm, assured and full of character.
 Fortune My Foe - The York Waits $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-fortune) Popular music from the period of the Gunpowder Plot is an album of instrumental music from the Jacobean period, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the 1605 event, played on period instruments including shawms (ancestors of the oboe-bassoon family), and characteristic instruments of waits before 1600, cornett, saggbut, and curtal, flutes, recorders, crumhorns, bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, lute and cittern.
 Pastorela - Sue Harris $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-pastorela) Sue Harris is one of Britain's foremost dulcimer players. She was in one of the early line-ups of Ashley Hutchings's Albion Country Band, and has played with Richard and Linda Thompson, and John Kirkpatrick.
 The Bells of Paradise - Alva $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-alva04) Vivien Ellis (vice) and Giles Lewin (violin) offer their unique interpretations of traditional English folk music
 Yule Riding - The York Waits $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-yorkyule) A celebration of a traditional holiday from York, England in the years before 1570. With instruments that include shawms, sackbut, recorders, flute, harp, lute, guitar, cittern and hurdy gurdy gurdy the album also features the glorious vocals of soprano Deborah Catterall.
 Hynt - Fernhill $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-fernhill-hynt) The 2003 recording by this remarkable band that mixes Welsh, English, French and other music in an all acoustic mix. Julie Murphy on vocals, Ceri Rhys Matthews on guitar, Tomos Williams on trumpet, Cass Meurig on fiddle and crwth and Tim Harries on double bass.
 Ashburnham - Dave Shepherd and Becky Price $16.99 (cdRoots# hojo-ash) A fiddle-and-accordion album of traditional and original tunes. Jigs and hornpipes, played full-tilt, are interwoven with gentler and more reflective airs, while familiar tunes intermingle with many exciting discoveries from 18th and 19th-century collections.
 Lilac Tree - Julie Murphy $17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-lilac) Nine new songs co-written by Murphy and guitarist Richard Llewellyn, recorded with with double bass player Tim Harries, drummer Rowan Griffiths and trumpet player Tomos Williams.
 Pandemonium - Eaton - Nigel Eaton $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-pandemonium) A collection of self[penned tues that stretch the limits (again!) of the hurdy-gurdy, joined by an excllent ensemble that includes Julie Murphy, Andy Cutting and Paul James.
 Love Burns in Me - Alva $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-alva) Vivien Ellis is one of the great female voices of the present day. Giles Lewin (violins) is known too for his work with The Carnival Band and the Irish group After Hours. Here they present Medieval and traditional songs and fiddle music from Britain and France.
 Hey for Christmas - The Oxford Waits with The Mellstock Band $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-hey) Seasonal songs and carols from the Bodleian Library's Broadside Ballad collections
 Wassail! A Country Christmas - Magpie Lane $temp out of stock-18.99 (cdRoots# hojo-wassail) A collection of songs and tunes which were originally performed in the band's hugely popular Christmas concerts at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford.
 Whilia - Fernhill $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-fernhill) Back in stock! The third album from Fernhill is an exilariting journey through the rich Welsh-language dance/song tradition. WHILIA ('talking') brings a thrilling contemporary dynamic to a still-neglected heritage of words and music.
 Panic at the Cafe - Andy Cutting - Nigel Eaton $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-panic) Former members of Blowzabella: Nigel Eaton (hurdy-gurdy, cello, keyboards) and Andy Cutting (diatonic accordion, keyboards), with Tim Panting (guitar, keyboards) and Ian Luff (cittern).
 Switter Swatter - Oxford Waits $temp out of stock-17.99 (cdRoots# hojo-switter) Superb singing voices are matched by instrumentation that includes lute, fiddle, smallpipes, pipe and tabor, shawm, orpharion and hurdy-gurdy. Here is early music played with all the zest of a contemporary folk band, with 29 tracks and over 60 minutes of playing time.
Here's a full listing of Beautiful Jo titles. We can special order them if you have a little patience:
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