#folksong — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folksong, aggregated by home.social.
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Out of the Shadows
On BBC Sounds: singer & storyteller Karine Polwart tells the story of how a crater on Mercury came to be named after the 18th-century Scottish poet & songwriter Carolina Oliphant
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qdgg
#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage #poetry #astronomy #romanticism #Mercury
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"Tom Dooley" ( #Roud 4192) is a traditional #NorthCarolina #folkSong based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in #WilkesCountyNorthCarolina by #TomDula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous #murderBallads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by #TheKingstonTrio reached No. 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the #Cashbox Country Music Top 20.
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Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair of them together
https://scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/29/the-scottish-song-guide-episode-1-killiecrankie/
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Whare hae ye been sae brankie, O?
Whare hae ye been sae braw, lad?
Came ye by Killiecrankie, O?—“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819).
The Battle of Killiecrankie ⚔️ was fought #OTD, 27 July, 1689. A Jacobite force led by Ewan Cameron of Lochiel & Viscount Dundee defeated a Scottish government army commanded by Hugh Mackay
#Scottish #literature #EarlyModern #17thcentury #battle #Jacobite #song #folksong
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"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" is a 1957 #folkSong written by British political singer-songwriter #EwanMacColl for #PeggySeeger, who later became his third wife. At that time, MacColl was still married to his second wife, Jean Newlove. During the 1960s, it was recorded by various folk-pop singers, including #theKingstonTrio, #WeFive, #TheChadMitchellTrio, #GordonLightfoot, and #PeterPaulAndMary. It became a major international hit for #RobertaFlack in 1972.
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"Tom Dooley" (#Roud 4192) is a traditional North Carolina #folkSong based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in #WilkesCountyNorthCarolina by #TomDula (whose name in the local dialect was pronounced "Dooley"). One of the more famous #murderBallads, a popular hit version recorded in 1958 by #TheKingstonTrio reached No. 1 on the #Billboard #Hot100 singles chart, was in the top 10 on the Billboard R&B chart, and appeared in the #Cashbox Country Music Top 20.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3zdE8bliGI
