Wild Asparagus

This article is about the American contra dance band. For the vegetable, see Asparagus.

Wild Asparagus is a contra dance band from Western Massachusetts that has toured throughout the United States and Canada. It’s Becky Tracy on fiddle, George Marshall on concertina and bodhran, Ann Percival on guitar and piano, and David Cantieni on winds. They usually have a bass player and some of their regular players include Corey DiMario, Mark Murphy, Harry Aceto and Ralph Gordon among others.^[2][3][4][5]

Wild Asparagus
Origin	Connecticut River Valley
Genres	Old-time music Irish traditional music
Years active	1982 (1982)–present
Spinoff of	Swallowtail[1]
Members	David Cantieni George Marshall Ann Percival Becky Tracy
Past members	Van Kaynor Mary Lea Susan Sternberg Sam Bartlett Stuart Kenney
Website	wildasparagus.com

Discography

• In Season (1985)
• Music from A Little Known Planet (1987)
• Tone Roads (1990)
• Call of the Wild (1993)
• From the Floor Up (1997)
• Wherever You Go (2001)
• The Best of Wild Asparagus (2003)
• Live at the Guiding Star Grange (2009)

David Cantieni solo album

• Red Rock (w/ Becky Tracy, George Marshall, Mark Roberts, Stuart Kenney, Rick Ruggles, Mary Witt, Ann Percival, and Pete Sutherland) (1996)