Farewell to Nauvoo: Hymns and Songs of the Mormon Pioneers CD
by Fiddlesticks
The family band FiddleSticks and Lisa Arrington have combined their talents to present Farewell to Nauvoo, a new collection of hymns and songs from the Mormon Pioneers and from other hymn traditions of nineteenth-century America.
Included are 18 new arrangements of favorite tunes, including:
The Handcart Song
The Lonesome Roving Wolves
Now My Dear Companions
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
There Is a Land of Pleasure
The Unknown Grave
O My Father
and many more.
Lisa Arrington and the Davis family have been friends for many years and this long-awaited collaboration has produced some lovely new arrangements of favorite old melodies, fusing Lisa's vocals and imaginative piano arrangements with the eclectic FiddleSticks Celtic style.
Lisa Arrington is a storyteller. By giving these lovely old hymns and songs her colorful and personal perspective, she tells the stories in a way that brings to life the people we remember as the Mormon Pioneers.
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