Performances
Concerts feature traditional jigs, reels, hornpipes, waltzes, original compositions, multi-layered vocal harmonies and unaccompanied singing.

Songs encompass rousing accounts of romantic escapades, tales of trial and challenge, historical sagas, stories of personal experience and place, and amusing expressions of everyday life and events.

Instruments
Mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, silver and wooden flutes, upright bass, keyboard, tenor banjo and autoharp.

Recordings
" The Celtic influence on musical styles of the Appalachian mountain region, and, in turn, a mountain flavor to familiar Celtic airs, form the substance of the self-produced disc by the group Mountain Thyme. It's a gentle project of music performed by six women who obviously know and love both the music and it's sources. " - Dirty Linen Folk & World Music

Mountain Thyme has been performing and playing “Appalachian Celtic” music since 1983. The years have passed so quickly – it seems like only yesterday that we released "West Virginia Chose Me", but that was over nine years ago.

Through this time, we experienced the usual hills and valleys of life and the changes that result. The passage of time has not changed our commitment to Mountain Thyme, our friendship or our enjoyment of music.

A Smile at the Door reflects Mountain Thyme's own style of music – an ensemble style influenced by mountain culture, kinship, rock and roll, folk music, and a strong attachment to the songs and tunes we play.

Fans often tell us that they "wear out" our recordings because they enjoy listening to them time and time again. This, our newest recording, promises to take the "wear-out" factor to a new level! Already we are being told that it is an exceptional - and a GREAT! road trip - recording.

It was an honor to learn and perform the wonderful collection of songs and tunes on this recording. Most are very old traditional selections but many are recent compositions by contemporary artists. We have included a 12 page booklet that provides descriptions and our perspectives on the songs and tunes. The lyrics to the 12 songs that we sing on the recording are on our website: www.mtnthyme.com.

We are proud of "A Smile at the Door" and truly hope that you will enjoy it!
Mountain Thyme
Pam Curry - vocals, bouzouki,autoharp and percussion
Jan Carroll - vocals, flute and percussion
Libby Musser - vocals, bass, piano, tenor banjo, and percussion
Linda Workman - vocals, guitar, mandolin, djembe, and synthesizer
Guest musicians: Cathy Grant - violin and viola & Tom Thurman - guitar

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