Spotify Controversy and Celticado

 #Celticado has decided to keep our music on #Spotify.  Now that so many musicians are removing their music, maybe we can start making some sales! 

@joerogan  @Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3JKYy3PkWjQk8hwp0MWd6j

Spotify Controversy and Celticado

 #Celticado has decided to keep our music on #Spotify.  Now that so many musicians are removing their music, maybe we can start making some sales! 

@joerogan  @Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/artist/3JKYy3PkWjQk8hwp0MWd6j

Traditional Irish Music For Weddings & More

Celticado is a wedding band from Granby, MA.  Members include yours truly on fiddle and mandolin, octave mandolin and Irish bouzouki, James Bunting (Jim) on guitar and tenor banjo.  Guest musicians include Claudine Langille on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals, Brian Bender on keyboards, percussion and bass.  Brian is also our DJ so if your wedding has a need for that, we've got you covered!

Here's a link to my Soundcloud page where you can listen to some more of the music I might play for your special event:  Soundcloud.com/sweetmusiconline

Here's a link to my Bandcamp page where you can hear what Celticado sounds like.  we play mainly traditional dance music and song from Ireland, Scotland, Cape Breton and Quebec.  You should be able to click on the links to listen to the music.  Here's a link to the page directly: https://adamsweet.bandcamp.com/releases 

• Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    $7 USD  or more

   

	1.	Kilfenora Set 05:47	info	buy track
	2.	Blast O'Reels 04:15
	3.	Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore 05:02
	4.	Beaton's Lament 03:44
	5.	Calliope House 03:55
	6.	Ireland's Green Shore 06:37

about

Adam's first release "Kilfenora Set" was recorded by Rotary Records, West Springfield, Massachusetts with Adam Sweet (fiddles, viola, mandolin, mandola, mandocello) and Jim Bunting (guitar, bouzouki, banjo)

Traditional Irish Music For Weddings & More

Celticado is a wedding band from Granby, MA.  Members include yours truly on fiddle and mandolin, octave mandolin and Irish bouzouki, James Bunting (Jim) on guitar and tenor banjo.  Guest musicians include Claudine Langille on guitar, mandolin, banjo and vocals, Brian Bender on keyboards, percussion and bass.  Brian is also our DJ so if your wedding has a need for that, we've got you covered!

Here's a link to my Soundcloud page where you can listen to some more of the music I might play for your special event:  Soundcloud.com/sweetmusiconline

Here's a link to my Bandcamp page where you can hear what Celticado sounds like.  we play mainly traditional dance music and song from Ireland, Scotland, Cape Breton and Quebec.  You should be able to click on the links to listen to the music.  Here's a link to the page directly: https://adamsweet.bandcamp.com/releases 

• Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    $7 USD  or more

   

	1.	Kilfenora Set 05:47	info	buy track
	2.	Blast O'Reels 04:15
	3.	Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore 05:02
	4.	Beaton's Lament 03:44
	5.	Calliope House 03:55
	6.	Ireland's Green Shore 06:37

about

Adam's first release "Kilfenora Set" was recorded by Rotary Records, West Springfield, Massachusetts with Adam Sweet (fiddles, viola, mandolin, mandola, mandocello) and Jim Bunting (guitar, bouzouki, banjo)

Five String Violins

I bought my first Five String Violin from a seller on eBay back in 1998.  I wanted something I could play on stage with my country band, Wild Heart, and bring with me to Egypt for a concert I was gearing up for in front of the Great Pyramids in Cairo.  I did some online research and learned about a company called Straus that was based in Korea.  They made a lot of other models including the one I liked (which was shaped like a treble clef).  The factory also built mandolins for some top American brands including Fender (electric violins), Michael Kelly and Rigel (mandolins) and Saga (banjos, guitars, bouzoukis).

Here's a picture of me playing my Straus electric violin with my friend Brian Bender on the trombone.  You can see the Great Pyramid of Giza in the back.  We were literally dozens of feet in front of the Sphinx.

Brian Bender / Adam Sweet - Cairo, Egypt 1999

After a while, I decided I wanted something acoustic that I could play with my celtic band Woodkerne.  Back to the internet, I learned about a maker in Chicago named Martin Brunkalla.  I contacted him and worked out an arrangement to distribute his 5 String Violins for a fee.  I sold probably six or seven of them before finding a supplier in China that was willing to make them for me directly.  So in 2004, I started importing Five string violins under my own TwoTree brand for sale in the US and Europe.  Below are some pictures of those instruments:

TwoTree Base-model Five String $899 with HSC

TwoTree Dragon Head Five String $999 with HSC

While I still play a five string fiddle in my Celtic group, Celticado, I don't import them any more.  They are capricious and difficult to keep in tune.  The C (low) strings tend not to sound very good, even on the higher quality instruments, due to the short length of the neck.  I can still get the TwoTree violins by special order for customers that are interested.  I have a video here of me playing one.  I apologize for the sound.  It was recorded in my basement ten or eleven years ago.

Monthly Irish Seisun with Celticado

Celticado with Claudine Langille

• On the last Thursday of each month from 7-9pm, Celticado will host a seisun 
• The seisun is hosted at the studio of Adam Sweet in Granby, MA.  
• This seisun is open to anybody from any background.  The seisun can include anyone from a completely rank beginner up to a seasoned professional!
• All musical instruments are welcome.    
• For a list of seisun tunes, click here
• Some of the regular attendees of the Monthly Seisun include students from Adam Sweet's studio and Celtic group class.  To learn more about taking lessons or joining the weekly Celtic group, click here.
• If you would like to attend, you need to RSVP.  Use the form on the sidebar to send us your contact information.  Please include your cell phone # in case we have to cancel the seisun and need to notify you.  Watch the weather report!  Generally speaking, if the schools in Granby or Amherst are closed that day, there won't be a Seisun that night.
• Because we move downstairs to a heated basement in the winter, there is LIMITED SEATING, so it is IMPERATIVE that you RSVP.  We cannot guarantee there will be space if you show up without notice.  The winter room has space for about 12 musicians only.
• Spring/Summer Seisuns are held in a large sunroom porch with space for about 30 musicians.
• Because this is an open seisun, anyone may suggest a tune when it comes to them.  We do go around a circle, however, so everybody will get a chance to suggest one.
• There is a leader each month!  Our leaders include Adam Sweet (fiddle, mandolin, guitar) who is the owner of the venue; Claudine Langille (banjo, mandolin, guitar) a master seisun leader from VT - formerly of Touchstone and now Gypsy Reel; and James "Jim" Bunting (bouzouki, guitar, banjo) - formerly of the Butcher Boys and Woodkerne.

Crossing The Pond - A Live Concert

Crossing The Pond is a trio consisting of Mark Vocca, Jamie Bunting and myself (Adam Sweet).  We get together in the spring to play a few St Patty's Day gigs together at pubs and libraries in CT and western MA.  It's a lot of fun and they are great guys to play music with.  I hope you enjoy this video.

http://vimeo.com/39738349