Is it too “early” to tell? Another album preview. #folksong #music #singersongwriter

Is it too "early" to tell? Ano...
Is it too "early" to tell? Another album preview.

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now
Is it too "early" to tell? Another album preview.

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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In “Highland Songs of the ’45”, the National Trust for Scotland shares original audio recordings of Gaelic songs collected by archivist John Lorne Campbell from Canna

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3knfjXaYI

#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong

Highland Songs of the 45

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Csinszka - Felsütött a napsugára (Official Music Video)

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We see your courage take the kindest ride We'll be here to meet you with our arms spread wide Earth will rise again & grace abide See you on the other side © Talis Kimberley 2026 (Score & chords available on request) #folksong #songwriter #NASA #Artemis #WeLoveYouFromTheMoon
Today's the day. Safe home, to the Artemis four, and safe home to us all. "We were waiting when the signal died Open-hearted, all, & starry-eyed Earth will rise again, & grace abide: See you on the other side" #folksong #songwriter #nasa

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qccbpbrmwk4u4ducacfze5pe/post/3miz2ljeyrc2k

“As a patterned textile, [tartan] features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic.”

—Ellen R. Beard, “When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song”

4/4

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2022/06/when-tartan-was-not-fake-the-disclothing-act-in-gaelic-song/

#Scottish #literature #culture #history #tartan #TartanDay #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #song #folksong

When Tartan Was Not Fake: The Disclothing Act in Gaelic Song - The Bottle Imp

Tartan is simultaneously a material object, a design template, and a symbol with multiple referents. As a patterned textile, it features straight lines, right angles, bright colours, and no ambiguity; as a symbol, its lines become fuzzy, its angles circular, its colours muddied, and its meaning polysemic (Brown, 9). While this paper addresses the significance […]

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Good god, there is a Dolly Parton version of Cyril Tawney’s “Grey Funnel Line”. Who’d ’a’ thunk it?!

https://youtu.be/Xxdx8N4t3TI

#Folk #FolkSong #FolkSongFriday

Grey Funnel Line

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"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNNRGa3pKyw
JOHNNY MATHIS ~ The Twelfth Of Never ~.wmv

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For all the #noKings protesters out these days:
It's good to have songs to sing together.

#music #protest #folksong

So here is "No Kings" by Jesse Welles (apologies for YT link, couldn't find him on peertube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXWDuv-ebrI

No Kings

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