Star Gazer

About the Artist
Swarthmore College, established in 1864, is the oldest co-educational Quaker institution in the United States. The College is located in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, approximately fifteen miles southwest of Philadelphia. A small campus of 1300 students, Swarthmore is widely recognized for its Honors Program and intensive course study. The College traditionally ranks first in US News and World Report’s annual survey of college in the United States.

In 1986, a group of alumni of Swarthmore College and of the College’s Gospel Choir returned to Swarthmore to participate in a reunion concert. That event marked the birth of the Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir.

The Swarthmore College Gospel Choir, of which the Alumni Choir is an out growth, began in 1971. The original group of twelve students founded the Choir to provide a spiritual and cultural means of expression for African-American students on campus. The Choir grew in size and prominence, performing in concerts on campus and in Philadelphia area churches. In addition, the Choir toured Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Cleveland, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and St. Thomas, Virgin Islands as the featured choir.

Several talented musicians worked with Choir. One of them, Vaneese Thomas ‘74, served the Choir for eight years as the Director, accompanist, instructor and “soul” of the Choir. Years later, she served in this capacity for the Alumni Choir. Ms. Thomas has been the heart and soul of the Alumni Choir for the 14 years since its creation in 1986. Ms. Thomas is the only professional musician in the Alumni Choir. Born in Memphis TN, Vaneese Thomas ‘74 is the amalgam of a myriad of musical influences. Blues and Jazz were standard fare in her household. Her father is R&B legend Rufus Thomas, her sister, singer Carla Thomas and her brother, keyboardist and arranger Marvell Thomas. This musical background solidly prepared her for the seemingly impossible task of teaching Alumni Swarthmoreans, drawn from many professional careers in medicine, law, engineering, finance, education, interior designing, insurance and management to sing our beloved gospel music. We thank Vaneese and are fortunate to have her unqualified commitment to the Alumni Choir’s music ministry. The other members of the Alumni Choir share Vaneese’s strong spiritual commitment. She has also shared her talent as a minister of music with several churches. In fact, many of the songs on our two CDs were written by Vaneese, a phenomenal talent. Others have also benefited from her talent. Vaneese has succeeded in various musical ventures. She has recorded with artists such as Eric Clapton, Luther Vandross, her cousin, Kirk Whalum and Jonathan Butler. Vaneese has been a solo artist for Geffen Records and has performed on various television shows both in the U.S. and abroad. She can be heard daily on radio and television commercials and is a noted studio musician in New York.

Other musicians have also contributed. Kirk Whalum, Rob Mathes and Bob Baldwin, all accomplished musicians and celebrated professionals in their own rite, made significant contributions to our first CD Project “Hallelujah! Amen” and our latest CD Project “Star Gazer”, a celebration of the life and birth of Jesus Christ. Among other accompanists were Carol Anton, a prolific writer who wrote Song of the Year at the Gospel Music Workshop convention in the early nineties and the late Reverend Ernest Davis, Jr., founder and Director of the Wilmington-Chester Mass Choir.

In addition to its inaugural concert in 1986, the Alumni Choir performed at Swarthmore in 1989 as part of the festivities for Black Alumni Weekend. In March of 1991, the Alumni Choir performed in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the College Gospel Choir. The Alumni Choir performed for all the alumni at the June 1994 Collection. In March of 1996, Vaneese Thomas '74 directed the Swarthmore College Alumni G

Product Description
This second release for the Choir is a holiday collection of pop and standard songs that will uplift everyone. Proceeds from the Choir's efforts go towards scholarship awards for African - American students attending Swarthmore College near Philadelphia.

Star Gazer,Swarthmore College Alumni Gospel Choir

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Train Song Sing-Alongs Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: All Aboard! My Mama Was a Train Train Songs & Other Tracks Come Ride Along with Me Big Book Of Trains ASIN: B000CAF2TM Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. The Friendship Train
2. The Wheels On The Train
3. The Rainbow Train
4. Ten Little Indians
5. I've Been Working On A Railroad
6. Bunny Junction
7. Hobo Hound
8. Freight Train
9. This Train
10. Freedom Train
11. This Land Is Your Land
12. Casey Jones
13. Hobos Lullaby

Album Description

Great train songs that are wonderful sing-alongs! Classics such as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Hobo Hound" are included. Lots and lots of fun! TOOT TOOT- ALL ABOARD!

Average customer rating: Best ever best lullabies for your baby Best Songs for Quiet Times Ever!

Mozart & Me (Lullabies & Other Dreams) Kevin Roth , and Janet Jackson Biely Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Lullabies | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B000008K9Q Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. Beautiful Dreamer (Kevin Roth)
2. Dreaming
3. A Little Moon Harp Dance
4. The Song Of Pretty Saro
5. A Little Kiss Goodnight
6. There Is A Ship
7. Romance From Eine Kleine Nachtmu

Tracks:

1. Rondo from "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Wolgang Amadeus Mozart
2. Theme from Don Giovanni/Magic Flute/Die Zauberflute
3. Kyrie Eleison (God have Mercy)
4. "Adagio" from Clarinet Concerto
5. Rondo
6. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
7. Minuet from Don Giovanni
8. Romance from Eine Dleine Nachtmusik

Album Description

Mozart & Me is a beautiful collection of Mozart instrumentals played on the Celtic Harp by award winning haprist Janet Jackson Beily,. Also included are Kevin Roth's enchanting songs about dreams, and a beautiful life performed on dulcimer, piano and vocals. This collection is wonderful for all ages!

Customer Reviews:

Best ever.......2000-12-10

This is the best lullabies tape. I got it as a gift and have since chased down several other Kevin Roth CDs and tapes. My daughter was hard to put down for her nap in her early months and she always feel asleep by "Quiet Times" so I remember it fondly.

best lullabies for your baby.......2000-06-28

I received a free tape by Kevin Roth in the mail when I was 42 and pregnant with my first child. One night, in the wee hours, when little Katy Rose wouldn't sleep, I remembered this tape. We listened and danced around the living room. Suddenly, she was asleep and I was hearing Kevin Roth singing "there's magic in the quiet times." That was definitely magic for me. She is almost 4 now and still drifts off into dreamland listening to "Lullabies For Little Dreamers." I've learned that Kevin Roth is a virtuoso dulcimer artist. He's a virtuoso with lullabies as well. Buy this CD for your babies.

Best Songs for Quiet Times Ever!.......2000-06-20

Kevin Roth has an amazingly mellow voice and unique way with the hammered dulcimer. This is an album that adult folk lovers, as well as children, will fall in love with. Kevin can sing me to sleep any time he wants!

Songs like "Roll Over", "Leatherwinged Bat", and "Are You Sleeping/Twinkle Twinkle" can be used as sing-alongs to quiet children before naptime, but "Skye Boat Song", "Bye 'N Bye", "Night Prayer", and "The Quiet Times" are definitely restful to fall asleep to.

Through 10 years of childcare I have listened to MANY lullaby albums, and "Lullabies for Little Dreamers" is the only one I haven't grown tired of. It is a must in every child's music library.

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Unbearable Bears Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Bill Shontz - Teddy Bear's Greatest Hits Teddy Bears' Picnic (Aladdin Picture Books) Teddy Bear Tunes ASIN: B000008SV6 Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. That Bear Makes Me Crazy
2. Teddy Bear's Picnic
3. Honey Bear
4. The Garden
5. Let Me Be Your Teddy Bear
6. The Show Biz Bear
7. The Unbearable Bears
8. The Bear You Loved
9. You Are You
10. I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
11. The Bear That Snores
12. Dream Maker
13. Lullaby Bears

Album Description

Those Unbearable Bears! Songs about going to school, eating flies, falling in love, "people songs, dressed up like BEARS!" This is one of Kevin's top sellers. Parents Magazine said " Everything children's music should be; warm, funny, sweet, silly and very comforting"

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Train Songs & Other Tracks Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Similar Items: Train Song Sing-Alongs ASIN: B000008SV8 Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. Train Going Home
2. Ive Been Working On A Railroad/Choo Choo Shoes
3. The Circus Train
4. City Of New Orleans
5. Slow Down
6. Take A Little Time To Smile
7. The Little Toy Train
8. Shing Time Station
9. The Train Of Beauty
10. Kevin's Place
11. Flowers In The Snow
12. New River Train
13. If I Had A Hammer
14. Five Hundred Miles
15. Out Take

Album Description

Singer of the theme song to PBS/Fox's hit TV Show "Shining Time Station", this collection of songs are all about Trains! Young or old, this collection will fill your day with GREAT music. Folk, country, a little jazzy and a bit of rock-n-roll, this CD will leave you smiling. ALL ABOARD!

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Glide/Star Gazer Peter Davison Manufacturer: Higher Octave ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DUBV Release Date: 1994-05-17

Tracks:

1. Glide I
2. Glide II
3. Glide III
4. Glide IV
5. Glide V
6. Glide VI
7. Luminous
8. Blue Spiral
9. Binary Companion
10. Milky Way Tears
11. Parallax
12. Star Gazer II
13. Star Gazer III

Average customer rating: Incredible

Dulcimer World Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mel Bay Hands-On Dulcimer: Developing Technique Through Exercises and Studies Appalachian Mandolin and Dulcimer Mel Bay's You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer Smoky Mountain Sunrise Learning Mountain Dulcimer ASIN: B000CAKC3I Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. Copos De La Montagne
2. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
3. Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
4. Skye Boat Song/ Little Fishies
5. Barbara Ellen
6. Soldiers Joy
7. Flowers In The Field
8. Monk
9. Wayfaring Stranger
10. Farther Along
11. Simple Gifts
12. The Brean Lament
13. Planxty George Brabazon
14. Buckdancers Choice
15. Waters Of Tyne
16. Dancing At Whitson/Arthur McBride
17. Red Hair Boy/ Maries Wedding
18. The Blacksmith
19. High On A Mountain
20. Wedding Dress
21. Pigtown Fling, Growling Old Woman, Cracklin old man
22. The Ladybug & The Moon
23. Lucid
24. Ragupati/The Swallowtail Jig
25. Dry Bones

Album Description

"For dulcimer fans there's a lot of pure dulcimer here- dulcimers of all shapes, sizes and timbres- ranging from the wonderful high registers of the ginger dulcimer to the full throaty sound of the bass dulcimer. For Kevin Roth fans, there's pure Kevin here, including the magical dulcimer arrangements and the wonderful vocals fans have come to expect..

If this is your first introduction to Kevins' music, I'll just say that Kevin recorded his first lp for Folkways records in 1974 when he was 16. This introduced his unique and innovative style of mountain dulcimer playing and singing to the folk fans of the 70's. Since then he has recorded over 30 albums of music for adults and children to rave reviews, and is one of a few who literally saved the dulcimer from obsurity. He's played just about every major dulcimer and folk festival on the planet and continues making great music every chance he gets.If any of your friends ask you what a dulcimer is, the definition is the CD you hold in your hand"

Customer Reviews:

Incredible.......2007-05-12

I play a ducimer and have assumed that I was competent at finger picking, but Kevin Roth goes beyond anything I have ever heard on the dulcimer. Such precise, sensitive playing! His traditional stumming is excellent as is his singing.

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Travel Song Sing Alongs Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAE75M Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. The Singing Dragon
2. Down By The Bay
3. Puff The Magic Dragon (Duet With Peter Yarrow)
4. The Professor
5. Teddy Bears Picnic
6. That Bear Makes Me Crazy
7. The Snoring Bear
8. I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly
9. You Are You
10. Noah's Ark
11. Mr Bedbug
12. The Ladybug & The Moon
13. Mr Rabbit
14. Animal Fair
15. The Green Grass Grows All Around
16. I've Been Working On A Railroad/She'll Be Coming Round The Mt
17. The Wonder Song
18. Little Piggy
19. Bye N Bye
20. The Quiet Times

Album Description

What can be better then traveling in a car on a long ride with great music to either sing along with, or relax to? This recording is a parents dream come true! Kevins voice is not only wonderful to listen to, but his material is intelligent, popular and hits the spot where music counts! An award winning record you'll enjoy in or out of the car!

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Between the Notes Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music Traditional Folk | Folk | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FTL12M Release Date: 2006-09-12

Tracks:

1. The Answer
2. The Smile Song
3. Love Is
4. The Inside Job ( Duet with Noel Paul Stookey)
5. The Party
6. The Poet Song
7. Love Is The Seventh Wave
8. Just Like Lauren Bacall ( Margo)
9. The Hoochie Mama's
10. Over The Rainbow
11. Between The Notes
12. Small
13. Smile ( reprise)
14. This Thing Called Love

Album Description

BETWEEN THE NOTES is Kevin's first new studio album in over five years. This one was well worth waiting for. It features brand new songs, as well as a companion DVD of original paintings, song lyrics, and interviews. This new medium gives the audience an insider personalized look at the artistic and creative process. Special guest, Noel Paul Stookey (of Peter, Paul & Mary), performs on several pieces, and offers insight on the DVD as well - "In the day and age in which we live, where artwork is all around us, just like music is all around us - this colorful representation that Kevin has control over, I am just in awe! I resonated so much with it (BETWEEN THE NOTES). It's an exciting piece of art!"

This recording also features the guitarcimer, an instrument made especially for Kevin that combines the best elements of guitar and dulcimer. This beautiful rich sound makes this art/music collection all the more interesting and beautiful.

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Celtic Harp & Other Lullabies Kevin Roth & Janet Jackson Witman Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAE8LK Release Date: 2006-08-23

Tracks:

1. Danny Boy
2. Wild Mountain
3. Welsh Home
4. Planxty Irwin
5. Lady Ann
6. Maries Wedding
7. The Boat Will Come
8. Loch Lomand
9. Pulling Bracken
10. Dublin Street Fig
11. The Butterfly
12. Amazing Grace
13. Be Thou My Vision
14. The Little Boat Song
15. Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
16. Winken, Blinken & Nod
17. skye Boat Song
18. Silkie
19. A Little Moon Harp Dance
20. The Mermaids Medley

Album Description

Celtic Harp & Lullabies features classic celtic songs played beautifully by Janey Jackson Biely on her hand made harp. The second part of this collection are moving lullabies sung and performed on the dulcimer and other instruments by award winning recording artist Kevin Roth. This CD also features Kevin's original painting. Need to relax? Stressed out? Put this on and chill!

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Children's First Songs Kevin Roth Manufacturer: Star Gazer Prod ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000I2J6CS Release Date: 2006-08-23

Christian Music:

1. Stories From a Satellite
2. Stranger In Paradise
3. Tearin Up My Heart [CD-single]
4. Testimonies
5. THE BEGINNING [Explicit Lyrics]
6. The Calling
7. The Furthest Shelter
8. The Happytones Play Politics
9. The Hard Way
10. The Hustle [Explicit Lyrics]

Christian Music

christian music

Christian Music

Feel the Heat [Import]

Retrospective: Brahms, Bertrand, Schubert, Et Al

Shout: The Remixes [CD-single] [Import]

King of the Road [Box set]

Sound System [Import]

Speechless

Music of the Middle East

Suckers [Soundtrack]

Saxophone Colossus

Portuguese Renaissance Choral Music

Rhythm-A-Ning

Pinocho [Import]

Savage Dreams [Explicit Lyrics]

Luzzaschi: Quinto Libro de' Madrigali

Between Black and White