"Fiddle tunes infiltrated by foreign agents"

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), Mostly Waltz and other social dance events, 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.

Our waltz, Call It a Night, is featured on Radio Paradise; another waltz, The Clock Stopped, is used by Richard Powers to teach cross-step waltz.

We are:

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

On this website you will find news and upcoming dances and concerts, information about recordings we have 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 have played and the nice things people have written about us. Finally, you can also follow some useful links to webpages about contradancing, folk music, and what have you.

What's New

August 18, 2022

Our schedule is updated.

June 9, 2020

CD Baby has discontinued direct CD sales and downloads. All of our music is still available on iTunes and several other digital platforms.

November 16, 2013

We have released a new live recording, Red and All Red, captured at the 2009 Seattle English Ball by Gerard Hranek, and also featuring cellist Fred Nussbaum. Nineteen full dances worth of music at more than 113 minutes total, available for download only from CD Baby, and coming soon to iTunes and other music sources near you, as long as you're near the Internet.

 

September 15, 2011

Added a stage plot for sound technicians (thanks to Nick Cuccia for preparing it!). For now, this is the only link to it on the site.

August 10, 2011

See our four-cheek treatment of Jack's Maggot from the 2009 Seattle English Ball on YouTube here.

January 7, 2011

The Red Light of Evening is now on Pandora Radio's Music Genome Project (you'll find us there as "KGB (International)").

September 2, 2009

KGB's Facebook page can be reached at http://www.facebook.com/pages/KGB-King-Ginsburg-Bartley/51277804111 (become a fan!). We also have a MySpace page (updated less often) at http://myspace.com/kgbmole.