"Fiddle tunes infiltrated by foreign agents"

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This KGB is not a spy organization, but a band from Seattle that plays for New England style contradance, English Country Dance (as MI-5), for concerts, and private functions such as wedding receptions. We write a lot of our own music, and the rest comes from all over the world: the British Isles, French Canada, the Northeastern USA, Western and Eastern Europe, South America, the rest of the USA, and places we haven't yet identified. We are:

Julie  King     - piano
Claude Ginsburg - violin, concertina, viola
Dave   Bartley  - mandolin, guitar, cittern, etc.

On this website you'll find news and upcoming dances and concerts, information about recordings we've released as well as a book of original tunes written by members of the band, find out who we are, collectively and individually, read about where we've played and the nice things people have written about us. Finally, you can also follow some useful links to webpages about how contradances, contradancing, folk music, and what have you.

What's New

July 29, 2008

Our schedule is updated.

January 21, 2007

I've added the iTunes download link for Contra-intelligence and Volga Notions to the Recordings and books link.

January 7, 2007

We have added Contra-intelligence and Volga Notions to CDbaby.com. Therefore, their contents are also available as individual downloads on iTunes, eMusic, etc.

November 15, 2006

Music from In from the Cold is available for download at iTunes, eMusic. They're also available from Napster and other places, but I don't have the links handy.

August 9, 2005

The KGB Tune Dossier Volume 2 has been published.

May 10, 2005

In from the Cold has been reviewed by Green Man Review.

March 9, 2005

Listen to a one-hour show we recorded for the KBCS's The Old Country on the recent evolution of contradance music and our own peculiar contributions at this link (beware, it's a big MP3 file): http://kbcs.fm/downloads/The_Old_Country/TOC_740_KGB.mp3

February 8, 2005

In from the Cold, is now available online via the excellent CDbaby service.