Mark Nelson's On-line Store

We are moving all of our CD and book duplication to CreateSpace, an on-line business. We feel this is the best way to get these products into your hands, and it eliminates the storage and mailing hassels. To purchase from CreateSpace, simply click on the link to go to their website. You may also purchase from CDBaby, Amazon.com, iTunes or other on-line sources where noted.

You can still make your purchases for selected CDs and books on-line using Pay Pal. Not a member? No worries, it's free to the buyer. Click on the "Add to Cart" button and follow the prompts. Please allow up to six weeks for delivery, we may be out on tour or playing with the cat...

Listen to audio samples of The Water is Wide, Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Funtime Uke-A-Rama & Ke Kukima Polinahe here..

Recordings

	*Funtime UKE-A-RAMA!* All of your favorites from the `Ukulele Happy Hour! Hear "Apache" the way it was meant to be played-- on an `ukulele! Thrill to the story of King Edward's abdication. Relax to the enchanting "Sweet Singing Bamboo." Do the stroll to Santo & Johnny's immortal "Sleepwalk." And please, don't play "A-11"... unless you play it on the `ukulele. Listen to excerpts.	CD: $15.00 Available from CreateSpace CDBaby
	Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar CD and TAB Book “Old Time Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar” is a collection of solo instrumental songs and medleys featuring the lilting finger-style guitar technique Mark learned by sitting in with master players like Uncle Ray Kane, Keola Beamer, Led Kaapana, John Keawe and Kevin Brown. These are the classic songs, played just as you’d hear them in a backyard kani kapila – full of interesting twists and turns, sometimes richly complex, but always nahenahe ~ “sweet!” The TAB Book contains note-for-note transcriptions of all 24 tunes written in tablature and standard notcation. CD and Book sold separately. TAB Book also available for purchase as a download. Listen to excerpts.	CD: $15.00 Available from CreateSpace Tab Book $19.95 Available from CreateSpace CDBaby.com Amazon.com iTunes
	Ke Kukima Polinahe ~ Polynesian and Hawaiian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer *CD and TAB Book* The first-ever collection of classic Hawaiian & Polynesian music arranged for the Appalachian dulcimer - "Hi`ilawe," the essential Hawaiian song about an illicit love affair; "Tiare Tahiti," a beautiful Tahitian melody, King Kalakaua's immortal "Sweet Leilehua" - and many more.If you like slack key music, wait until you hear it played on the dulcimer! ‘Akaka Falls•Kahuli Aku•Lei Ohu•Pupu O Ewa•Wehiwehi ‘Oe•Tiare Tahiti•Ahe Lau Makani•Ahi Wela•Hi‘ilawe•Moloka‘i Waltz•Nanea Kou Maka i ka Le‘ale‘a•Pua Sadinia•Sweet Leilehua•Kaulana Na Pua•Pauoa Liko ka Lehua•Ua Like No a Like•Isa Lei•Aloha ‘Oe•Sanoe Listen to excerpts.	CD $15~Available from Create Space TAB Book $19.95~Available from Create Space ..
	The Water is Wide Don't miss The Water is Wide, an extraordinary collection of twelve contemporary instrumentals for slack key guitar and Appalachian dulcimer. The nahenahe sounds of ki ho`alu meets the sweet voice of the dulcimer. The Water is Wide • The Road to Duke's • Mood Indigo Slack • The Crossing • `Opihi Blues • Sî Bhean Locha Léin/Samhradh, Samhradh • Annie's Slack Key Lullaby • Sanoe • Las Blancas Flores • Auntie's Christmas Goose • Drizzle • Pua Sadinia TAB is now available! "The CD arrived in good order and I am already enjoying your beautiful music.What a musical treasure. I love every track. Your music is pure delight...truly NAHENAHE. Mahalo nui for sharing your musical gifts with others. The world would be a much better place if more folks would listen to and let your music melt away the "hardness" in them. Keep creating and playing your wonderful music." Sincerely, Kim Len Listen to excerpts.	Purchase from acme arts for $15.00 . Available at CDBaby.com Amazon.com Apple iTunes Lindows Napster DiscLogic NetMusic Rhapsody MusicMatch BuyMusic MusicNet AudioLunchbox.
	autumn... A stunning collection of instrumental solos for MIDI dulcimer and acoustic MIDI-guitar, autumn invokes the peaceful spirit of a late fall afternoon in Oregon's beautiful Siskiyou Mountains. "Like those who do what they do well, and who constantly stretch the limits of their art, Nelson has taken the sweet little instrument to its logical extreme. Folk music was never like this..." – The Oregonian March of the Pygmy Foresters • While You Were Sleeping • Gaviotas • Blue Heron Waltz • Autumn • Minor Matters • Marketplace • Hugh Drummond • Pau Hana • Mist in the Pines • Good Old Dog • Boreal Originally released in 1996 on Wizmak Record, it is finally available again!.	$15.00 Available from CreateSpace. CDBaby iTunes Amazon.com Special Offer: audiophile cassettes $5.00 while they last!!!
	The Faery Hills – Instrumental Music from the Complete Collection of Celtic Music for Appalachian Dulcimer Beautiful and stirring settings of airs and tunes from Ireland, Scotland, Britain and Brittany, artfully played on dulcimer, hummel, electric dulcimer MIDI dulcimer, harp, guitar & more. Includes a stunning setting of O'Carolan's immortal Si Beg Si Mor (The Faery Hills) performed by Mark's groundbreaking band Southern Light. Released at the same time as autumn, this wonderful CD is finally available again! Airde Chuain/The Glergy's Lamentation • Trunkles/Haste to the Wedding • Breton Wedding March/An Dro Arzh/An Dro Noalou • The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord • The Aran Boat • Another Jig Will Do/Jenny's Wedding/The Ships are Sailing • Oran Mor MacCloud/The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu • All through the Night • Sonny Brogan's Mazurka/Jackie Donnan's Mazurka • Breton March/An Dro Baod • Si Beg Si Mor (The Faery Hills Released 1996, Wizmak Productions.	$15.00 Available from CreateSpace
	Southern Light Mark's third album, was a musical departure from the Celtic stylings of his previous efforts. It showcased his writing and multi-instrumental skills alongside a veritable who's who of contemporary new acoustic musicians, including steel pan virtuoso Andy Narel, jazz violinist Dave Balakrisnan of the Turtle Island String Quartet and Celtic bopsters Robin Petrie and Danny Carnahan. "Southern Light will have you dancing around the room with a planter's punch in one hand and your ticket to Jamaica in the other." (Four stars) – Advocate, Fairfield County , CT Drizzle • The Cuckoo Round • Au Jardin d'Amour • Fernando's • The Morning Fog • Turlututu • Lithuanian Tune/October/Bourée Nécessaire/Garçon de Montagne • Under Dogwood • Bahia (Southern Light) • Chimpanzee Bounce • Catalina • Larkin Released 1986, Flying Fish Records.	Available from Rounder Records, Amazon.com and many other online sources
	After The Morning Produced by legendary Irish fiddler Kevin Burke, After the Morning moved the dulcimer to new levels of sophistication. A beautiful record, it was a Book of the Month Club selection. "The beautiful sleeve art displays visually what is waiting for us aurally inside... to transport us across oceans and eons of time. The full range of the dulcimer is displayed... driving energetic and almost hypnotic, or delicate and transparent." – Come For To Sing Mark Nelson: Dulcimer, Hummel, Cittera, Bodhran Kevin Burke: Fiddles Tim Crosby: Mandolin, Banjo Clyde Curley: Guitars, Fiddle Lance Frodsham: Clavinette Sylvia Hackathorne: Whistle The Lonesome Boatman/The Skye Boat Song/The Musical Priest /The Earl's Chair • An Comhra Donn/Delahunty's Hornpipe • The Boys of Ballisodare/The Joys of my Life/The Kesh Jig • The Falls of Richmond • Planxty Irwin • Chickens are A'Crowing/Morrison's Jig/Joe O'Dowd's • Margaret McArthur's Soldier's Joy/Horga Latten • The Kid on the Mountain • Joke on the Puppy/Cold Frosty Morning • My Home Released 1983, Kicking Mule Records.	$15.00 Available from CreateSpace Amazon.com
	Fiddle Tunes for Dulcimer: The Rights of Man A ground breaking collection of Irish, Scottish, French and old-time tunes featuring some of the Northwest's pre-eminent musicians. "Finely wrought arrangements... consistently captivating. Dulcimer playing of the highest order" – Jim Hatlo, FRETS Magazine Bourrée • Hewlett • The Huntsman's Chorus/West Fork Girls/Ducks on the Pond/Rock the Cradle Joe • Midnight on the Water • Farewell to Whiskey/Off to California/Crosby's • Barney Brallaghan/Paddy on the Railroad/The Gravel Walk • The Road to Lisdoonvarna/Campbell's Farewell to Redgap • The Duke of Fife/Puppy Eating Biscuits • Cherokee Shuffle • Prince William/Petronella • The Rights of Man • Le Chat Va La/Branle Released 1979, Kicking Mule Records.	$15.00 Available from CreateSpace FLASH!!! After 20 years the TAB book is again available!! All the songs in EZ to read tab and standard notation. Order online through Create Space:

Books

	Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for `Ukulele Now you can learn to play lovely finger style solo arrangements of classic Hawaiian songs, folk songs, standards–even a few pieces from the classical guitar repertoire on your `ukulele. The book offers 27 arrangements from around the world written in standard notation and tablature. Includes a CD with all of the songs, chord charts, inversion studies and more. Includes arrangements for standard reentrant tuning and Low G tunings. Click on the image for more information and a sample lesson.	.Available where ever fine books are sold Amazon.com. Or purchase direct for $19.95 Includes CD:
	Learn to Play Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Co-written with master musician Keola Beamer, this is the first comprehensive instruction method for this beautiful art form. Covers all of the major tunings, including Taro Patch, Double Slack, Mauna Loa, Keola's C and F Wahine. TAB and musical notation. Includes CD with tunings, examples and selections from the book. Mel Bay Publications	. .Available where ever fine books are sold. Amazon.com Or purchase direct for $24.95 Includes CD:
Click the image to learn more.	*Getting Started in Computer Music* Your personal computer can be your key to the once impenetrable music industry. Getting Started in Computer Music is a useful introduction to the myriad ways you can use your computer to help you create, learn, perform, manipulate, write, and record music. "At last - an understandable book on computer music!" Epinions.com. Apr 28 '06. Read the whole review here.	Available where ever fine books are sold. Amazon.com Thompson Course Technology
Click on the image to learn more	Favorite Old Time American Songs for Appalachian Dulcimer An outstanding collection of over 100 essential American folk, old time and popular songs skillfully arranged for beginning and intermediate dulcimer players. In TAB and standard notation; includes information on reading TAB, tuning your dulcimer and transposing. 232 pages. Mel Bay Publications	Available where ever fine books are sold. Amazon.com Or purchase direct for $24.95
	Ke Kukima Polinahe ~ Polynesian and Hawaiian Music for Appalachian Dulcimer~Tab Book Complete transcription of the CD.19 beloved slack key melodies artfully arranged for intermediate and advanced dulcimer players. In TAB and standard notation; includes excercises, notes on fingering and techniques. CD sold separately. 74 pages. Acme Arts	Revised and expanded second edition now available. $19.95 Order online though CreateSpace
	Complete Collection of Celtic Music for Appalachian Dulcimer A generous selection of music from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and Britain: reels, jigs, strathspeys, harp tunes and more. TAB and musical notation. CD with selections from the book available separately... Mel Bay Publications	Purchase direct for $17.95 Available where ever fine books are sold Amazon.com. Book & CD set:– $34.95
	Fiddle Tunes for Dulcimer - The Rights of Man A ground breaking collection of Irish, Scottish, French and old-time tunes featuring some of the Northwest's pre-eminent musicians. After 20 years the TAB books is available again as a special facsimile edition, preserving all of the charming illustrations of the original! "Finely wrought arrangements... consistently captivating. Dulcimer playing of the highest order" – Jim Hatlo, FRETS Magazine Bourrée • Hewlett • The Huntsman's Chorus/West Fork Girls/Ducks on the Pond/Rock the Cradle Joe • Midnight on the Water • Farewell to Whiskey/Off to California/Crosby's • Barney Brallaghan/Paddy on the Railroad• The Road to Lisdoonvarna/Campbell's Farewell to Redgap • The Duke of Fife/Puppy Eating Biscuits • Cherokee Shuffle • Prince William/Petronella • The Rights of Man • Le Chat Va La/Branle	All the songs in EZ to read tab and standard notation. $11.95 Order online through Create Space:

CDs and Books

Recordings

Books