The Niagara-on-the-Lake Rhythm Project
The Instrumental Album

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1. Big Noise from NOTL (Part 1) - Penner MacKay & The Drumming Fools (The drum orchestra) Hear a sample

2. *Chakra # 5 - Eric Mahar (Maharvelous Music) (Bruce Cockburn meets Led Zepplin and Ravi Shankhar) Hear a sample
E. Mahar: guitars, harmonica / Steve Goldberger: fretless electric bass / Penner MacKay: banjo drum, body drum, dumbek, tablas / Chad McMillan: udu / Conrad Kipping: Mandolin

3. **Friday at Cuvee - E. Mahar (Maharvelous Music) (Mediterranean exotica) Hear a sample
Eric Mahar: acoustic and electric guitars, accordion / Steve Goldberger: fretless electric bass / David Norris: drum set / Penner MacKay; percussion / Herb Nelson: organ

4. *St. Valentine's Ayre - S. Goldberger/ C. Kipping /E. Mahar (Dory Cottage Music) (our Scottish roots) Hear a sample
Conrad Kipping: fiddles, mandolin / Eric Mahar: guitar, / Steve Goldberger: fretless electric bass / Peter Alexander: tin whistle, Irish flute, bohdran, / Penner MacKay: dumbeck / Herb Nelson: Hammond organ / Jessie MacKay: jimbay

5. *Tin City - Steve Goldberger (Dory Cottage Music) (I feel a tropical vacation coming on)Hear a sample
Eric Mahar: guitar / Steve Goldberger: 4 string electric bass / Conrad Kipping: fiddle, mandolin / Penner MacKay: congas, shakers, guiro, cabassa / Perry Quinn: drum set / James Brown: steel drum

6. **Storm Clouds - Eric Mahar (Maharvelous Music)(A flowing electric guitar piece) Hear a sample
Eric Mahar: classical and electric guitars / Steve Goldberger: fretless bass David Norris: drum set / Penner MacKay: shaker,tamborine, lap drum, guiro, clave Herb Nelson: Hammond organ

7. *Big Noise from NOTL (Part 2) - Penner MacKay & The Drumming Fools


8. *Chakra #1 - Eric Mahar (Maharvelous Music) (Get out your yoga pad) Hear a sample
Eric Mahar: guitar, didgeridoo / Steve Goldberger: fretless electric bass / Herb Nelson: piano / Penner MacKay: Barrelhouse Drum, ceramic lap drum, tambourine, jimbay / Perry Quinn: drum set, rainstick

9. **The Shaw Shuffle - S. Goldberger / H. Nelson / E. Mahar / E. Kopala / P. MacKay (Blues in C) Hear a sample
(Dory Cottage Music) Steve Goldberger: 5 string electric bass / Herb Nelson: piano and Hammond organ / Penner MacKay: drum set / Eric Mahar: chromatic harmonica / Ed Kopala: slide guitars

10. **Everything Gonna be OK - Herb Nelson (Contemplative piano gets funky) Hear a sample
Herb Nelson: piano, Yamaha organ, Hammond organ, Steve Goldberger: fretless bass / Penner MacKay: drum set and jimbay / Eric Mahar: electric guitar

11. *Russia-mon - S. Goldberger/ C. Kipping (Dory Cottage Music) (Klezmir-reggae) Hear a sample
Eric Mahar: guitar / Steve Goldberger: 5 string electric & 4 string fretless basses / Conrad Kipping: mandolin / Penner MacKay: ceramic lap drum: dumbek / Perry Quinn: drum set / Herb Nelson: Hammond organ / Mary Jane Grant: chimes

12. *Dog & Drum - Joe Ingrao (Injomi Productions) (Charlie Brown grows up) Hear a sample
Joe Ingrao: keyboards / Garth Vogen: acoustic bass / Penner MacKay: congas, maracas / Eric Mahar: classical guitar / Conrad Kipping: mandolins

13. * Big Noise from NOTL (Reprise) - Penner MacKay & The Drumming Fools

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The Drumming Fools are: Penner, Jessie & Andy MacKay, Peter Alexander, Perry Quinn, Peter Griffin, Chad MacMillan. Thanks to Frank Ditillio of the African Hit Factory for the backyard recording of the "Fools" playing claves, triangle, finger cymbals, chimes, rain stick, wood stove, shakers, sea shells, whirlies, cuica, wood blocks, fire, vinyl siding, cedar deck, funnel, tail pipe, flower pots, salad bowls, frying pan, and of course, a kitchen sink. The Barrelhouse Drums and other drums and percussion instruments were recorded live in Penner's drum studio by Steve.
Copywrite 2002 - All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced or copied without permission All songs SOCAN
Produced and Engineered by Steve Goldberger
Recorded and mixed at the Shed Studios, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Canada
*Mastered by Jeff Elliot at Reaction Studios, Toronto
** Mastered by Steve Goldberger at the Shed Studios
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