Paul Ely Smith: Home

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If you want to follow what I've been up to, my suggestion is that you click the flash player below and start listening to some music, and then go to links and click the blog link. That's where I post the news.

I have started chipping away on a recording of music for fretless gourd banjo, and I have just posted the first finished track, "Cluck Old Hen," in the music section, which you can hear it by clicking on "music" on the right side of this page, or by using the flash player at the bottom of this page. In "Links" I put a link to a recently-posted YouTube video in which I play Gottschalk's "The Banjo" on the gourd banjo.

In the last few years I've been producing CDs for other people too, and I have decided to post examples of some of those productions. In addition, there are a bunch of older tracks from a variety of CDs on the "music" page, all sorts of things we've been recording out here.

I also posted a few things in the "music" section that were never released, beginning with a recording I made in 2005 of my "Wind Quintet," performed by the WSU Solstice Woodwind Quintet, and a live recording of "Canntaireachd" for choir, a piece I composed in 1990.

Paul Ely Smith

musician, composer, performer, producer, instrument builder