NEW CD NOW IN PRODUCTION!

The Demerits are getting a new CD ready for you. It's called Made from Scratch. It's going to be recorded in a kitchen in a few weeks. Can you believe they are doing this for you? Isn't that thoughtful? What can you do in return?

You can order it in advance, save five bucks, and help The Demerits raise the funds to get the CD made! That's what.

Download this form, print it out, and send it to Dr. John Mortensen via campus mail or snail mail at:

Cedarville University Department of Music and Art

Cedarville Ohio 45314

Please make checks payable to John Mortensen. But cash is good.

The Demerits are all over the web!

The Demerits on MySpace (some audio and video clips)

The Demerits on CD Baby (buy physical CD's here)

Or open iTunes and search for "demerits" (download complete CD)

You can also get The Demerits' music on most mp3 sites like Napster and Rhapsody and stuff.

 

The 07-08 line-up (L-R): Linda Mortensen: flute,recorder, whistle; Sean Ewing: guitar; Emily Powell: first fiddle; Sara Craig: second fiddle; John Mortensen: uilleann pipes, 5-string banjo, high and low whistles, irish button box; Micah Martin: whistle and bodhran

Recent Videos:

Tommy and Maggie (16MB)

Little Sadie Contradicts the Devil (40 MB)

Quebecois Reels (33 MB)

Podcast:

Fiddle Chix Podcast (23:00, 21 MB or so)

Download an mp3 of The Crippled Chicken. There are three tunes in this set: The Chicken Reel, Kentucky Mandolin, and Cripple Creek, all of which are bluegrass standards.

 

About The Demerits

The Demerits are happiest when tossing off a set of lilting jigs and blazing reels for anyone who will listen. Formed in 2003 on the campus of Cedarville University as an emergency measure to appease angry crowds demanding traditional Irish music, The Demerits have since gone on to record two very reliable CDs, “Plays Well With Others” and "Roadtrip". They have performed in a few different places, none of which was very prestigious, but all of which were a good deal of fun.

The group members are mostly fugitives from classical music. After hearing them rip through a rowdy Irish dance set you might not guess that they also have perfectly respectable lives in which they serve as music professors and current or former music students.

Recently they have begun to acquire a reputation in Ireland. What happened was, this one lady got their CD and sent it to her daughter who was staying in Ireland, and the daughter called the mom and said the music was good.

So you can see that things are really picking up.