This film documents the Enfield Shaker Singers engagement with the dance patterns, energy and joy described in Shaker manuscripts and eyewitness visitor accounts.

The latest release from Shaker musicologist Mary Ann Hagen and the renowned Enfield Shaker Singers, the beautiful songs on this recording illustrate some of the ways music served Shaker communities.

Instrumental. Coulter and Phillips have become known for their elegant instrumental renditions of Shaker tunes. While the Shakers didn’t use musical instruments until the 1870s, the duo sensitively render this material as beautiful chamber music.

Set contains all three Coulter/Phillips CDS of Instrumental Arrangements of Shaker Melodies: Music on the Mountain, Tree of Life, Simple Gifts.

This landmark recording by musicologist Dr. Daniel Patterson is the one truly essential recording of Shaker music. These recordings were made during that 1960s at Sabbathday Lake, Maine.