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What's your January 1 mood?

Mine is the photograph of my little boy at Kindergarten orientation in the CLASS OF 2026 T-shirt

#goesbyfast #auldlangsyne

Happy New Year
#HappyNewYear #ScottishMusic #traditionalmusic #auldlangsyne #folkmusic

https://makertube.net/w/uyzPKkzMPEyn3itzUdssAe

Autocorrect – forget the old ones
#HipHop #HipHopRap #auldlangsyne #choral #dance #experimental #happynewyear #triphop #Columbia
CC BY-NC-SA (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike) #ccmusic
https://autocorrectsound.bandcamp.com/album/forget-the-old-ones

Auld Lang Syne e i bei tempi andati
#AuldLangSyne #Capodanno #NewYear
Appena terminato il conto alla rovescia nella notte di Capodanno, i festeggiamenti cominciano, la gente applaude, le coppie si baciano, volano coriandoli e subito qualcuno inizierà...
https://www.tiziano.caviglia.name/2025/01/01/auld-lang-syne-e-i-bei-tempi-andati/13130/

Great, now I have the song #AuldLangSyne stuck in my head. #HappyNewYear2025

In spite of (or because of) so much that is grim & heartbreaking, my wish for you and for our world is a New Year rich in joy, peace, love, health, kindness, and contentment. May we all prosper in the ways that truly matter.

Enjoy this beautiful Dougie MacLean video, an annual tradition at Chez Laloofah…
#NewYearsEve #NewYear #AuldLangSyne #HappyNewYear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMFnqj6aFwY

If you need Auld Lang Syne.

#happynewyear
#2025
#auldlangsyne

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/15KpLeydyQ/?mibextid=wwXIfr

New Uke. New Strings. New Year.

#NYE #AuldLangSyne #PlayYourUkulele

Okay gang, time to switch over to the New Year's playlist

#music #newyear #auldlangsyne

So while driving in to work today I hit the wrong button and switched my music source from phone to radio. Christmas music was playing so I just rolled with it. Then #AuldLangSyne came on.

Sorry but it is a war crime to play THAT this early in the year.

Greetings For Auld Lang Syne, c.1910 - Regent Publishing Co Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/greetings-for-auld-lang-syne-c-1910-regent-publishing-co-postcard-221125891.htm

#AuldLangSyne #Postcard #Postcards

Your regular reminder that “America the Beautiful” can be sung to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” and vice versa. #AmericaTheBeautiful #AuldLangSyne #FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay

"Warum einfach wenn es auch kompliziert geht? Daiso-Kette entwirft neuen Laden-Rausschmeisser-Song" https://japan-almanach.de/blog/warum-einfach-wenn-es-auch-kompliziert-geht-daiso-kette-entwirft-neuen-laden-rausschmeisser-song/ #Ladenschluss #AuldLangSyne #Nachfolger #doofeTouristen :)

Working on a song challenge where the task is to "Make a remix or cover version of a song with a very different tone."
Decided to do... things... to Auld Lang Syne, again. This is WIP, but since I'm not sure I'll actually finish this, posting it as-is.

(Picture an old photo of mine.)

https://soundcloud.com/nikodemus-siivola/mix-lang-syne-wip-1

#electronicMusic #synthstorm #deluge #auldLangSyne

Good Morning #Canada
Gaetano Alberto "Guy" Lombardo, from London Ontario, was a Canadian bandleader, violinist, and hydroplane racer! Lombardo formed the Royal Canadians in 1924 with his brothers Carmen, Lebert and Victor, and other musicians from his hometown. Over 5 decades the Lombardos are believed to have sold approximately 300 million records. But their biggest hit was recorded on this day in 1939 - "Auld Lang Syne"

#CanadaIsAwesome #NewYearsEve #AuldLangSyne
https://www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/guy-lombardo-made-auld-lang-syne-a-tradition-1277298

"When I approach the poetry of #RobertBurns I feel as if I approach the Holy Grail." (Maya Angelou), #BurnsNight #AuldLangSyne #ScotsWhaHae #BurnsNight2024 - we need more poets in #ProjektMyra #Poetry #Gedichte

Them: 🎶 Should old acquaintance be forgot…

Me: Yes! Done. Ok, what's next?



#HappyNewYear #AuldLangSyne #introversion

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wgh8Gfs2S7M&si=_wsIqmCp-_QTBF_p this is becoming a tradition #AuldLangSyne #JohnGreen #NewYear

Shit, old acquaintances be forgot.
(New phone, who dis?)
#HappyNewYear #AuldLangSyne

"Lighting The New Year"
Teableau for 01/01/23

#Tea #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #BlackTea #VanillaTea #Harney&Sons #NewYear #NewYearsDay #Holiday #VintageChina #PenAndInk #Art#WadeFigurines #ScittishDancer #AuldLangSyne #Poinsettias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFcSfqYqHs4

#HomeFree #AuldLangSyne #HappyNewYear

Our absolute favorite rendition of Auld Lang Syne is Dougie MacLean’s. So beautiful and moving. May it, and the New Year, bring you peace…
#AuldLangSyne #DougieMacLean #NewYearsEve #NewYear
https://youtu.be/sMFnqj6aFwY?si=Cs736Bo8Qmn3XJ_Y

There was a time when some corps had a song which they would pull out of their hat to finish their shows with. For the 27th Lancers, it was Danny Boy. For the Santa Clara Vanguard, it was Fiddler on the Roof’s Bottle Dance. With the Racine Kilties, their show stopping closer was Auld Lang Syne, a song which the corps used over 30 times throughout it’s history as both a junior and all-age corps. With Syne’s ties to Scotland, it was fitting that the Kilties, who exuded Scot culture in a distinctly American activity, would end many of their shows with this song.

Auld Lang Syne comes from a Scottish ballad, “Old Long Syne”, printed in 1711 by James Watson, and later collected and submitted to the Scots Musical Museum by poet Robert Burns in 1788. In 1799, the poem was then set to a traditional tune which is now the standard melody we know (Auld Lang Syne. (2005). In Wikipedia. Retrieved December 26, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne). I’m a little disappointed that nobody has added anything regarding the Kilities and their use of Auld Lang Syne throughout their history to the Wikipedia article I cited. Looks like I’ll have to sign up for an account and make some necessary edits.

Per Drum Corps Museum, the Kilties first performed Auld Lang Syne in 1960, appropriately as their closer. The corps would end their shows with Syne 18 times during their junior corps existence, which came to an end in 1982. When the corps returned to the field a decade later as an alumni corps, Auld Lang Syne did so as well. That alumni appearance in Madison served as a springboard to return the Kilties to the field as a competitive corps, this time in the all-age DCA world. Ironically, after another 11 shows closing with Auld Lang Syne, the Kilties would achieve their best DCA placement, 9th, in 2011, playing Syne as their opener, the only time the corps would perform the song anywhere in their show besides the finale.

The arrangement was almost always the same, starting slow and reverent, sometimes playing backfield. After building in volume at the end of the melody, a percussion break would allow the corps to form up for re-entry, as a soprano duet would play a traditional Scottish fanfare. The full corps would then push forward at full volume and tempo, reprising the melody. A quartet of soprano soloists would then outdo each other on the musical scale before a final thunderous chord finished the song and the show. With the field judges no longer marking ticks during this final portion of the show, it was all about entertainment and effect, and the Kilties made the most of it every time Auld Lang Syne rang out from their instruments.

https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/26/12-corps-of-christmas-racine-kilties-auld-lang-syne/

#12CorpsOfChristmas #AuldLangSyne #drumCorps #Kilties #MarchingArts #Racine

There was a time when some corps had a song which they would pull out of their hat to finish their shows with. For the 27th Lancers, it was Danny Boy. For the Santa Clara Vanguard, it was Fiddler on the Roof’s Bottle Dance. With the Racine Kilties, their show stopping closer was Auld Lang Syne, a song which the corps used over 30 times throughout it’s history as both a junior and all-age corps. With Syne’s ties to Scotland, it was fitting that the Kilties, who exuded Scot culture in a distinctly American activity, would end many of their shows with this song.

Auld Lang Syne comes from a Scottish ballad, “Old Long Syne”, printed in 1711 by James Watson, and later collected and submitted to the Scots Musical Museum by poet Robert Burns in 1788. In 1799, the poem was then set to a traditional tune which is now the standard melody we know (Auld Lang Syne. (2005). In Wikipedia. Retrieved December 26, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Lang_Syne). I’m a little disappointed that nobody has added anything regarding the Kilities and their use of Auld Lang Syne throughout their history to the Wikipedia article I cited. Looks like I’ll have to sign up for an account and make some necessary edits.

Per Drum Corps Museum, the Kilties first performed Auld Lang Syne in 1960, appropriately as their closer. The corps would end their shows with Syne 18 times during their junior corps existence, which came to an end in 1982. When the corps returned to the field a decade later as an alumni corps, Auld Lang Syne did so as well. That alumni appearance in Madison served as a springboard to return the Kilties to the field as a competitive corps, this time in the all-age DCA world. Ironically, after another 11 shows closing with Auld Lang Syne, the Kilties would achieve their best DCA placement, 9th, in 2011, playing Syne as their opener, the only time the corps would perform the song anywhere in their show besides the finale.

The arrangement was almost always the same, starting slow and reverent, sometimes playing backfield. After building in volume at the end of the melody, a percussion break would allow the corps to form up for re-entry, as a soprano duet would play a traditional Scottish fanfare. The full corps would then push forward at full volume and tempo, reprising the melody. A quartet of soprano soloists would then outdo each other on the musical scale before a final thunderous chord finished the song and the show. With the field judges no longer marking ticks during this final portion of the show, it was all about entertainment and effect, and the Kilties made the most of it every time Auld Lang Syne rang out from their instruments.

https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/26/12-corps-of-christmas-racine-kilties-auld-lang-syne/

#12CorpsOfChristmas #AuldLangSyne #drumCorps #Kilties #MarchingArts #Racine

12 Corps Of Christmas – 1996 Bluecoats (Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas/Auld Lang Syne)

https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/25/12-corps-of-christmas-1996-bluecoats-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-auld-lang-syne/

1996 is a tough year for me from a drum corps standpoint. For my age out season with the Glassmen, we went from our best season to date and an 8th place finish to seeing us drop down to 13th place and my junior corps career ending one day early at Semifinals. Ironically, I had started my drum corps career in 1992 by also finishing 13th, so it was an interesting bookend for my five years on the DCI field. I also was blessed to meet to great friends who were marching in the Bluecoats in 1996, Dave Edgar and Elle Lignoski, and, with our two corps spending a decent amount of time together on tour, I got to see them quite a few times. I even have a great photo of Elle and I in our respective corps uniforms at Semifinals night, my last photo in a Glassmen uniform and a great memory from an otherwise weird season.

Unlike the Glassmen and I, the Bluecoats repeated their best finish to date, finishing in 7th with their show American Celebrations. The show was also the second straight year the corps performed a show with a patriotic focus after their Homefront: 1945 show. American Celebrations looked at various holidays which Americans celebrate. The show opened with a countdown into the new year and the corps playing Auld Lang Syne as an intro before going into the return of My Funny Valentine, last performed in 1989. Where as the 89 version was straight up ballad, this version was full of energy and drive. Memorial Day came next, with the sounds of Taps and a lone guard member holding a tri-folded American flag, in a sense a memorial of the previous season.

Bloo went full patriotic for the next holiday, the 4th of July, featuring Yankee Doodle Dandy after a brief intro from Strike Up The Band, and then went industrial for Labor Day, with metallic sounds from the pit and, in what may be the most interesting use of sanitation equipment outside of Stomp, guard members playing garbage can lids like they were marching cymbals.

Then came the section of the show which puts the ’96 Bluecoats on this list, a celebration of Christmas. The front ensemble led off with a brief quote of Christmas Time Is Here from A Charlie Brown Christmas before the horns began playing Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. This was another true Bluecoats ballad in a long tradition of them, complete with a gorgeous soprano solo in the middle of the song, leading into the final impact of the show. The soloist finished the song as the corps ran into a tight circular formation. With the contrabasses providing a great bass line, the corps sang the chorus of Auld Lang Syne, bringing the show full circle and ending the show with the hope that a new year brings to all of us every New Year’s Eve.

https://medi-nerd.com/2023/12/25/12-corps-of-christmas-1996-bluecoats-have-yourself-a-merry-little-christmas-auld-lang-syne/

#12CorpsOfChristmas #1996 #AuldLangSyne #Bluecoats #drumCorps #HaveYourselfAMerryLittleChristmas #MarchingArts

Every Thanksgiving, I make sure I wake up in time to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not for the floats. Not for the lip syncing celebrity “performers”. I watch for the marching bands.

This comes as a shock to you, I know, that Kevin is so into marching bands that he would watch a televised holiday parade just for them. I especially enjoyed this year’s parade as groups like Fishers High School from Fishers, Indiana and Stoneman Douglas High School from Parkland, Florida, really outdid themselves.

Of course, my favorite marching units are the drum and bugle corps who show up now and again. As a long time performer and fan of the activity, I get literal chills when I see a drum corps coming into the frame in front of Macy’s, with enough sound output to drown out any of the TV presenters (sorry, Willard Scott, but that many G bugles blasting out Auld Lang Syne is going to make you invisible from an audio standpoint).

Speaking of G bugles, it’s appropriate that the first example I found of a drum corps in the Macy’s parade is a long time DCA and all-age staple, the New York Skyliners. This video is actually an audio only recording of the corps performing in their home concrete canyons, but it’s also fun to hear the voices of Lorne Greene and Betty White, who hosted the broadcast for NBC that year (1963? 1968? Both?). The audio isn’t the best quality, but that adds to the nostalgic feel of the recording.

The next group of videos I found were from when DCI and the various regional drum corps organizations, such as DCE, DCM, and others, formed what was known as the Macy’s All Star Drum and Bugle Corps. These groups were made up of performers from various drum corps from all levels of the junior and all-age activity. The fun part of these groups is seeing all the different uniforms of the represented corps, as well as the humongous sound these corps put out (again, apologies to Willard Scott).

It wasn’t until the 2000s that I found the next example of Macy’s drum corps fun. This time, it’s the Cadets (pour some out), coming off their 2005 DCI world championship, performing one of their classics, Swing, Swing, Swing from the movie 1941, first performed by the Cadets during their 1995 show, An American Quintet

The most recent drum corps performance in the Macy’s parade was a big one. Coming off their 75th anniversary in 2013, the Madison Scouts put together an Anniversary Corps the following year for the parade. The corps was made up of members from the 2014 competitive corps (in white) as well as alumni from throughout their history (in green and red). The Scouts were also granted the honor to lead in Santa Claus to finish the parade, doing so with a rousing holiday mashup of Pharrell Williams‘ Happy and Angels We Have Heard On High.

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is one of two parades which are on my bucket list to perform in, the other being the Pasadena Rose Parade on New Year’s Day. If I could do those parades in a drum corps, it would be the best thing ever.

https://medi-nerd.com/2023/11/23/drum-corps-in-the-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/

#1941 #AngelsWeHaveHeardOnHigh #AuldLangSyne #BettyWhite #Cadets #DCA #DCI #drumCorps #DrumCorpsInternational #Fishers #FishersHighSchoolMarchingBand #Florida #Happy #Indiana #LorneGreene #MacyS #MacySThanksgivingDayParade #MadisonScouts #MarchingArts #NBC #NewYearSDay #NewYorkSkyliners #Parkland #PasadenaRoseParade #PharrellWilliams #StonemanDouglasHighSchoolMarchingBand #Thanksgiving #WillardScott

Yes. Yes, they should.

#AuldLangSyne #Proms #BBCProms #LNOTP #LastNightOfTheProms

So, back into #RoyalLiverpool again to see my mum. Waiting for bus next to my old school #KingDavid - definitely #AuldLangSyne! 2022 wasn't the best year for me, hopefully 2023 will be an improvement. #HappyNewYear

#NewYearsEve
#NewYears2022
#auldlangsyne
#happyholidays2022

But #Pleasures are like #Poppies spread,
You #Seize the #Flower; its #Bloom is shed;

Or like the #Snow falls in the #River,
A moment white -- then #Melts #Forever;

Or like the #Borealis race,
That flit before you find their #Place;

Or like the #Rainbow's lovely form
Vanishing now amid the #Storm.

No man can #Tether #Time or #Tide;
The hour approaches & Tam must ride.

- Robert Burns, #Scottish #Poet & #Lyricist, Tam o' Shanter

#AuldLangSyne #Poetry #Verse #Poem #Poppy