BIOGRAPHY

I've been playing instruments since practically I was born, starting with piano at around the age I couldn't run under it anymore. (That's a grand piano.) I got into folky-type instruments in 1976 when I built my first dulcimer, but before that I was lining up empty clay plant pots in a scale and playing tunes, and using garden hoses as PDQ Bach type horns. I hope soon to put up more photos here of me in action with these musical instruments, and also more soundclips. Stay tuned.

PHOTOS

Bones Festival

Lauren & Conner

CDs

No Bee Without The Rose

Me And My Brother

SOUND CLIPS

Celebration Of Fire        Highspeed         Dialup Frisbee        Highspeed         Dialup One Little Story that the Crow Told Me    Highspeed         Dialup Pick a Bale of Cotton   Highspeed         Dialup Chilly Winds    Highspeed         Dialup

ME AND MY BROTHER HOW THIS HAPPENED Little did we know, back in "1981"*, that the CD revolution was only 4 years away. We blithely plunged ahead with the LP project, had a thousand copies pressed, and sold maybe 400. Even when we were making the album, Moondi was already headed west to Ohio for college- otherwise he would have been featured in more cuts; in "1985" I went to Indiana for opera factory processing; Zeng's last concert was in "1986". I started giving M&MB platters (or Tahitian War Frisbees) away at opera gigs, and then Sue Ladd around 1992 asked if the album were available in CD form. I had vowed that I wouldn't make a CD of it until all the LPs were gone. Some vows aren't worth making. With the birth of Little Blue Heron in "2001", and my resultant return to the "acoustic" or "folk" music world, it suddenly became useful to have the LP put into CD form. With the advent of personal computers, home CD burning devices and high-resolution printers, it became possible for me to remaster the album myself; this is the result. I also included four bonus tracks that were never intended for the album, but since CDs have more room than LPs and these tracks were recorded concurrently with the album material, I figured, "why not?" I have also made a CD of recordings of Zeng made at Karlin's house previous to M&MB, and might make a "Best of Zeng Live" compilation when I have time. -ADAM KLEIN, Jackson NJ, December 30, "2002" Rockingham Cindy  Hi speed  Dialup Doney Gal  Hi speed  Dialup Juniper Springs  Hi speed  Dialup Walkin' in Jerusalem  Hi speed  Dialup Year of Jubilo  Hi speed  Dialup Cotton Mill Girls  Hi speed  Dialup Monday Morning Blues  Hi speed  Dialup Black Jack Davey  Hi speed  Dialup Falls of Richmond  Hi speed  Dialup Back Down to Virginia  Hi speed  Dialup The Original Dulcimer Song  Hi speed  Dialup The Old Grey Horse  Hi speed  Dialup Sally Goodin   Hi speed  Dialup Over the Waterfall  Hi speed  Dialup White Pilgrim  Hi speed  Dialup Haste to the Wedding Shady Grove Salty Hot Dog Blues Rocky Top Total time: 59:22

NO BEE WITHOUT THE ROSE NO BEE WITHOUT THE ROSE I met Constance Cook in 1975 in the second half of eleventh grade. We attended many of the same classes, including the two choirs, and co-led the Madrigal Group. Then she moved away from Long Island, then I did, then finally in 1997 we got back in touch. In 2001 Peter Johnson of Living Folk Records and Concerts suggested we form a performing duo, which we did. We settled on the name Little Blue Heron and gave our first concert as a wanm-up act for Poor Old Horse at a chuch in Watertown, Massachusetts. Our busy schedules make appearances difficult, but we've been heard at the NEFFA folk, Carter Family Memorial music, NOMAD folk, and Philadelphia Space-Rock festivals as well as a few coffee houses; at the Louis F. Angelo Elementary School in Brockton, Massachusetts we have given three family concerts with students joining us in an increasing number of songs, and also taught hundreds of them how to play bones. [link to photo of bones] The album "No Bee Without The Rose" is our first commercially available recording, recorded and produced by me. We hope to follow it with a sequel "No Rose Without The Bee", and then, who knows. Cherry Tree Carol Shiloh's Hill The Blacksmith Greasy Coat. . . 624KB: Streaming .mp3 format O My Brethren Ecosystem (A. Klein) Sheep Crook Talk About Sufferin' Ca' the Yowes Shady Grove John Barleycorn Liza Jane Cotton Mill Girls The Last Leviathan Chilly Winds Total Time 65:01