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JENNIFER CUTTING has written and produced songs for internationally known performers such as Maddy Prior, Annie Haslam, John Roberts & Tony Barrand, and for her own Celtic group OCEAN. Her tradition-inspired songs have won the country's highest honors, including the Washington Area Music Assocation's WAMMIE Award for "Songwriter of the Year," and a First Prize for songwriting at the Merle Watson Memorial Festival. She has judged the Mid Atlantic Song Contest, been an Instrumental Composition Panelist for the GRAMMY Awards, and acts as an advisory Music Specialist for the Library of Congress’s annual Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Her own songs are deeply influenced by traditional Anglo-Celtic folksong, and often reflect the seasons of Nature and the rites of passage in human life.

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The Turning Year: Pandemic Sessions Unplugged: CD

$15.00

On their fourth recording, Jennifer Cutting’s OCEAN Orchestra create folk music for the “new normal” of a global pandemic. You’ll clearly hear composer and bandleader Jennifer Cutting’s love of Celtic folk, folk-rock, and early music. But her vast complex sound canvases have given way to intimate groups of the 3 and 4 musicians who could safely be

The title song, a collaboration with English songwriter Mick Ryan, was recorded in two versions which serve as bookends: robust unaccompanied harmony vocals with the New England quartet Windborne, and contemplative vocal and piano featuring longtime OCEAN member Lisa Moscatiello. In between, you’ll find a new sea song with words by Jennifer and a traditional Breton tune; a classic Robin Hood ballad featuring Steve Winick and Zan McLeod; a pair of O’Carolan planxties with a new song sung by Christine Noyes; and a rich medieval carol reimagined to welcome in the springtime, yet perfect for the feel of the holiday season.

Stripped down, unplugged, intimate… but still undeniably OCEAN.

Song of Solstice - Jennifer Cutting's OCEAN Orchestra: CD

$20.00

Award-winning composer/producer Jennifer Cutting and her OCEAN Orchestra return with a garland of songs for Solstice and Yule. Featuring 6 new original songs on aspects of the holiday season: the transition from fall to winter (“Fall, Leaves, Fall”), the solar turning point of the Winter Solstice (“Song of Solstice”), the gifts of diverse spiritual traditions (“Light the Winter’s Dark”), nature’s cycle of death and rebirth (“Green Man”), longing for the return of light and warmth (“Summer Will Come ‘Round Again”), and a lighthearted take on the commercialization of the season (“Bah, Humbug!”). Added to these are peaceful, meditative carols, Celtic classics, and a dramatic re-visioning of a Victorian broadside. Song of Solstice features soaring female vocals, ethereal Celtic harp, and rugged male voices alongside accordion, fiddle, whistle, and bagpipes. It places majestic organ and renaissance recorder quartet next to shimmering electronics, electric guitars, and a rock-solid rhythm section. This Solstice album belongs to all generations and spiritual traditions.

Waves: CD

$20.00

“They get right inside the spirit of the folk music of the British Isles, unpick it and weave it into a bright new fabric on their own 21st century American loom.” –Fairport Convention’s Simon Nicol

On their third album, Waves, Jennifer Cutting’s award-winning ensemble Ocean Orchestra take the listener on a voyage of discovery—through the history

On their third album, Waves, Jennifer Cutting’s award-winning ensemble Ocean Orchestra take the listener on a voyage of discovery—through the history of the band and the mystery of human life. Waves is both the new Ocean Orchestra album, and the lost album by Cutting’s previous ensemble, the New St. George, which also featured Ocean’s Lisa Moscatiello and Rico Petruccelli. Waves is about some of the great themes of our lives: the changing seasons, life’s ups and downs, and even the transition called Death. Jennifer’s old folk and Celtic musical influences are all here, especially the British folk-rock of Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span. But you’ll also hear other strands, including 1960s jangle-pop, art-rock, classic southern rock, church organ, Broadway, Bollywood and singer-songwriter.