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Video Interlude
Kerstin Blodig and Ian Melrose (Kelpie) - Kråka (Germany/UK)
Kyle Carey - North Star (USA)
The Gloaming - Sailor's Bonnet (Ireland)
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Happy Holidays
Hanukkah starts tonight (EDIT: okay, it starts tonight. December 8.)! And, not really related, I felt like sharing some music.
Neko Case - Magpie to the Morning
The Poison Oaks - Pine
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Variants
Three versions of a ballad about a couple separated for seven years. Steeleye Span's has the most archaic language and details, including a broken ring, as well as super-awesome 70s musical styling. Tim O'Brien's version is probably from the Appalachians, has much brighter music (with a banjo!), and the missing lover has become a soldier, not a ( Read more... ) -
They say time may give you more than your poor bones can ever take.
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International Video Mélange, Folk Remix
Anyone remember when I posted about my retro taste in folk music? No? But that got everyone so excited! Anyway, here's some twenty-first century folkish stuff, with an indie sensibility.
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (USA)
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Oy, Again With the Videos!
So as you may have gathered from my previous posts about music, I am pretty much an indie/rock sort of girl. But I'm also just as into folk and Celtic music, a taste I got from my mom. As a teenager in the Seventies, she used to do cast at Renaissance Faires, listening to stuff by Steeleye Span, Waterston Carthy, Fairport Convention, Silly Wizard ( Read more... )
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