Come All Ye

[deliasherman]

Trad English Folk Music enthusiasts, who love the Watersons, Ewan MacColl, Dick Gaughan, Jean Redpath et al. and list to this tale, of a young pinball wizard who just couldn't fail.  You won't be sorry.

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From Gardner Dozois by way of Greg Frost.

Comments

[_stranger_here]

I am finding this weirdly hypnotic.

[deliasherman]

It is, isn't it?

[asakiyume]

:D

That was just wonderful!

[la_marquise_de_]

They're fantastic, aren't they? I've seen them a couple of times at the Cambridge Folk Festival and they are killingly funny. I particularly like their version of the theme music from Shaft ('Sharpe. Cecil Sharpe...')

[deliasherman]

This is my first exposure. I am now a Total Fan.

[la_marquise_de_]

They're wonderful: tickets to see them tend to sell out in hours, but luckily they do quite a few festivals every year.

[la_marquise_de_]

Oh, and here they are with 'Shaft' at (I think) last year's Cambridge Folk Festival.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE

[tamago]

Wow. That is an eerily appropriate mashup of my two highest volume posting friends on FB: the ukelele enthusiast and the English Country Dance teacher.

[elswhere1]

They are the best! Their "Wuthering Heights" is also extremely wonderful.

Oh, wait, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF0VaBxb27w

[deliasherman]

The sight of a whole audience chiming in on "Heathcliffe!" at the appropriate moment is worth a great deal more than the price of admission. Where have these guys been all my life?

[elswhere1]

I've been keeping an eye on their website, but they don't get to North America much; they played Carnegie Hall last November and I was sorely tempted to turn my life completely upside-down and fly to NY just to see the concert; they are THAT GOOD.

[sovay]

The sight of a whole audience chiming in on "Heathcliffe!" at the appropriate moment is worth a great deal more than the price of admission.

Oh, good; I was going to need to link that if someone else hadn't. It's brilliant.