Farewell to Nauvoo: Hymns and Songs of the Mormon Pioneers

Listen to an interview with Mark Davis and Lisa Arrington from The Cricket and Seagull Fireside Chat.

The family band FiddleSticks and Lisa Arrington have combined their talents to present Farewell to Nauvoo, a new collection of hymns and songs from the Mormon Pioneers and from other hymn traditions of nineteenth-century America. Included are 18 new arrangements of favorite tunes, including "The Handcart Song," "The Lonesome Roving Wolves," "Now My Dear Companions," "Poor Wayfaring Stranger," "There Is a Land of Pleasure," "The Unknown Grave," "O My Father," and many more.

Farewell to Nauvoo is a kind of "volume two in a series," following up the acclaimed FiddleSticks collection of old time LDS hymns called Return to Nauvoo. Lisa Arrington and the Davis family have been friends for many years and this long-awaited collaboration has produced some lovely new arrangements of favorite old melodies, fusing Lisa's vocals and imaginative piano arrangements with the eclectic FiddleSticks Celtic style.

Lisa Arrington is a storyteller. By giving these lovely old hymns and songs her colorful and personal perspective, she tells the stories in a way that brings to life the people we remember as the Mormon Pioneers.