CD: A Kiltartan Road Christmas:
      Joy in the Morning
      Kiltartan Road

We're so proud to offer this Christmas album, brought to us by classical/jazz vocalist Tom Orf, a Chicago transplant and the newest artist on the Dragon Lady Records.

18 beautiful tracks of beloved traditional songs and new carols deserving the status of standards, played and sung with the kind of fusion approach that is dear to our hearts here at Mandala Music: a successful mix of celtic, singer/songwriter, classical, traditional African-American spirituals, and bluegrass with Irish fiddle, 12-string guitar, piano, cello, Uillean pipes, 12-string cittern, and even Indian tabla....(Read more and listen here...)
 

Now Available!

Book: Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre: The Composers and Lyricists
              by Dr. Herbert Keyser

The perfect gift for aficionados of the Great American Songbook, the new anthology Geniuses of the American Musical Theatre tells the story of the golden age of Broadway from a well-informed, witty, and warmhearted new perspective.

Here—for the first time in a single volume—are biographies of the great songwriters and lyricists of Broadway musicals, including Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more.

"There is a lot of gossip and inside information....marriages, divorces, affairs, family discord and addiction problems. I’ll let you discover those when you read this handsome, eloquent book—which I strongly urge you to do."—Edgar Loessin, Loessin at Large, Public Radio WHRO 90.3 fm

(Take a peek inside the book here....)