Tam Lin really is a - and I can think of no other way to put this - completely f———ed up ballad if you stop and actually listen to the story, isn’t it? Seriously, check it out if you’re unfamiliar https://youtu.be/WhZSkbuGc1k

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The west-country delight

A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing how parishes would pay for a piper to play on Sundays and other holidays

"from Whitsuntide, till latter #Lammas day;

On sabbath days and holy-days, after evening prayer comes he"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6-L__UXQko

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Christmas Lamentation/Christmas is my name.
A 17thC broadside ballad, complaining about the lack of charity at Christmas.

Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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Two anonymous 17th Century ballads describing the purported evil deeds of Richard III, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, which was fought #onthisday in 1485.
A good example of Tudor propaganda.

A song of the Life and Death of King Richard the Third (to the tune of Who list to lead a soldier's life)
and
The most cruel murther of Edward the fifth, and his brother Duke of York, in the Tower; by their Uncle Richard Duke of Gloucester (to the tune of Fortune my foe)
From Richard Johnson's ballad miscellany, The Golden Garland of Princely Delights, 1620

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison KInder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eStjRK_gY-M&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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#ballads #balladmiscellany #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #history

Shrovetyde
An #anonymous #English #17thCentury #engraving from a #broadsideballad showing an #allegory of #Shrovetide.
Thomason Tracts, 1661

Shrovetide is depicted riding on an #ox and armed with a spit full of roasted meats, a #gridiron on his back, wrapped in #sausages and ready to go into battle with #Lent.

#calendarcustoms #foodhistory #broadsideballads #ballad #song #songs #cooking #cooks #pancakeday #fast #feast #carnival #carnevale #battlebetweencarnivalandlent #earlymodern #seventeenthcentury #onthisday #otd #onthisdayinhistory #shrovetuesday #history #historical #historicalfood

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A #seasonal #video:
To Drive the #Cold #Winter Away.
From Pepys Ballads, c1625

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnbUPnXIQSw&ab_channel=Passamezzo

Eleanor Cramer: bass #viol
Richard de Winter: #baritone
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Tamsin Lewis: #Renaissance #violin
Richard Mackenzie: #lute

#earlymusic @earlymusic #earlymodern #violinist #violadagamba #broadsideballad #broadsideballads #woodcut #17thCentury #seventeenthcentury #SeventeenthCenturySong #seventeenthcenturymusic #histodons @histodons #histodon @histodons #socialhistory #historyoffood

Christmas Lamentation
A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, bewailing the gap between rich and poor, and the lack of #charity at Christmas.

Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Robin Jeffrey: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCNuQiv-3RQ&ab_channel=Passamezzo

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The Shropshire Wakes, or, Hey for Christmas
A 17th Century broadside ballad about #Christmas #feasting and #revelry.

Eleanor Cramer: Bass #viol
Alison Kinder: #recorder
Robin Jeffrey: #cittern
Tamsin Lewis: #violin
Michael Palmer: #baritone
Peter Wilcock: #bass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNi_fDWdIH8&ab_channel=Passamezzo

#broadsideballad #broadsideballads #17thCentury #christmascarol #christmascarols #earlymusic #renaissance #baroque #seventeenthcentury #carol #carols #earlymodern #folk #folkmusic