There are many popular Gillian Welch songs to choose from, but I love this one from the "Lost Songs"---so quiet and winsome, closer to classic American country music than mainstream folk. #countrymusic#folkmusic#musicwomenwednesday
I had a choice of two originals. One is an instrumental literally called "Lullaby in E". The other (included below) is a protest song, which I was surprised to find works very well as a lullaby:
"I'll Be Right Here, Too"
(performance and work CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Jennifer Vena Wood)
For all the queer kids out there, may you be safe and loved.
I heard this and thought “Gallopede” but apparently this called “Knife’s Edge” except that if you search for that you find another tune instead… so I don’t know what I’m sharing this #TuneswapTuesday except that it is early #Blowzabella.
Today's video is an answer to a viewer's question about what an ocarina is and how it works. I'll also demonstrate the different types of ocarina with my version of the ballad "Geordie".
Sad news for Scottish folk music, to hear Ian Green has died.
So much of Scottish folk from the past four decades (and before) is on Greentrax, from Shooglenifty to Dick Gaughan to archives from the School of Scottish Studies - Ian's label surely is the 'undisputed leader in its field'.
And now the last of my 40 settings from the manuscript. I enjoyed creating pipe friendly settings, I can't say I enjoyed recording them. I don't think recording tunes that I am unfamiliar with does the tunes or my piping justice.
A quick play through of my setting of Unfortunate Jock from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.
Heading down to Seattle today for a 4 day weekend to participate in Seattle Yiddish Fest which seems rather expanded in scope this year. A few highlights for me are seeing Ilya Shneyveys, accordionist and multi-instrumentalist who'll be teaching and leading events, and Michael Wex, the Canadian Yiddishist and raconteur. #klezmer#Yiddish#MusicFestival#Seattle https://www.seattleyiddishfest.com/
I knew about this newly published book of old #Klezmer because two colleagues of mine helped typeset it, but it was going to be too expensive to ship to Canada. So I was glad to be able to buy a copy from Hoffman's great granddaughter Susan Watts who is teaching at the festival this weekend.🎺🎶 Great stuff!
Anyone on here listen to folk music? Sometime pre-2020, my spouse and I heard a song played live (at Falconridge Folk Festival, if that's helpful), the chorus of which went:
"Every day, every day, I choose you."
Except that the final iteration was, "Every day, every day, you choose me."
This song came up again tonight. Would love to find the song again, if anyone knows it. #folkmusic#music#folk
When you grow up singing unattributed folk songs, you grow up singing "The ants are my friends, they're blowin in the wind, the ants they are blowin in the wind."
Wow.. Shared by an accordionist friend. Putting aside the exoticising tone of the newsreel, this is a fascinating glimpse of Roma life in New York at the end of the 1930s. The accordionist is recognizable as Mishka Ziganoff, a Christian Roma klezmer musician & recording artist of the 1910s and 1920s. Too bad the audio quality is so bad. #accordion#Roma#MusicHistory#OldNewYork#NYhistory#FolkMusic https://youtu.be/jpZRQvDVBY8?si=kvNTSw3bu7fn4NnM
Today in Labor History March 2, 1997: Earth First! Activist, feminist and IWW labor organizer Judi Bari died. Bari, and her comrade, Darryl Cherney, survived a terrorist bomb attack in Oakland, CA in 1990, when they were organizing Redwood Summer, a 3-month campaign of nonviolent direct actions, during the summer of 1990, to end the clear-cutting of northern California redwood forests. The police and FBI immediately blamed her for the bombing, claiming that she was the terrorist and that the bomb was intended for logging companies. They arrested her and handcuffed her to her hospital bed, as she lay there with a shattered pelvis. Bari and Cherney were eventually exonerated and won a settlement for the FBI’s role in violating their civil liberties. The bomber was never caught. In addition to their organizing and activism, Bari and Cherney were also musical composers and performers. Their song, “Will the Fetus Be Aborted,” (to the tune of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken,”) was performed by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon on their Prairie Home Invasion album.
Bari was instrumental in organizing Local 1 of the IWW, an effort to unite timber workers and environmentalists around the same goal of ending the clear-cutting of the forests. Some of the actions during Redwood Summer included preparing breakfast at base camp and getting it to the timber workers at 5 am, before they began work, in an effort to talk with them and organize them. Redwood Summer, as a whole, was well-organized. Veteran Direct-Action activists hosted numerous organizing events in the months that preceded the actions, to train activists in their legal rights, direct action tactics, security, jail solidarity, etc. However, there was little to no training in labor organizing or class solidarity. Consequently, at least for the actions in which I participated, the conversations with timber workers tended toward privileged activists talking down to the workers, telling them how they should be thinking and acting, and the timber workers yelling at them and threatening them. One environmentalist was clobbered with an axe handle. Others were attacked with rocks. And on at least one occasion, assailants fired guns at base camp. Overall, the actions did not stop the clear cutting of the forests, but they did slow things down for a while, and they did reduce Louisiana Pacific’s profits.
Hi! I'm (probably) Ember (trying it out). I also go by Zemri.
#Agender. They/them and neutral terms only unless otherwise indicated. #masc leaning in physical presentation. Been on T for almost 5 months now. Mostly just goblin mode at all times.
Right, after a week at carnival in Portugal and a week recovering it's time to get back to the auld tunes. This is another from the manuscript that was already in my repertoire although I've always played it as a standard reel without those semi-quaver runs.
A Ranting Highland Man from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.