Category: Music

Greensleeves

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Greensleeves

  • June 14, 2013   

  “Greensleeves” is a traditional English folk song and tune. The lyrics date back officially to 1580 with the tune either immediately accompanying them or added within a few decades[…]

Slania’s Song

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Slania’s Song

  • May 22, 2013   

Eluveitie was one of the bands I mentioned in my post on folk metal and again when I talked about the hurdy gurdy. They are a Swiss folk metal band whose[…]

The Minstrel Boy

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The Minstrel Boy

  • May 17, 2013   

  Written by Thomas Moore after the 1798 Irish Rebellion and set to an old Irish folk tune, “The Minstrel Boy” is a beautiful song that has followed the Irish[…]

Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

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Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

  • May 14, 2013   

  Written in 1791, the Scottish poet Robert Burns‘ beautifully peaceful poem Sweet Afton describes the Afton water which flows through Ayrshire in southwest Scotland near the small town of[…]

Sunette Bridges

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Sunette Bridges

  • July 27, 2012   

  Sunette Bridges is a South African music artist, the daughter of singing legend Bles Bridges, who once held a concert during the 1980s for the AWB’s People’s Help Scheme1[…]

Southern Heimat

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Southern Heimat

  • July 5, 2012   

  I recently discussed the concept of the German word Heimat, a word without a direct English equivalent, defined as the special sense of a person belonging to a specific place,[…]

Dougie MacLean – Homeland

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Dougie MacLean – Homeland

  • May 15, 2012   

Written by well known Scottish folk musician Dougie MacLean, Homeland is a song ridiculing the foreigners who have emigrated into his Scotland.  The arrogant colonists sell their expensive city houses[…]

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