#folksong — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folksong, aggregated by home.social.
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A topical protest song:
NOT NEARLY LONG ENOUGH
(C) 2026 by Dan Schatz
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAkzcB8Ha1U
#music #protest #resist #USSLincoln #sailors #folksong #IranWar #Iran #war -
started a #wikipedia article on American singer, writer, translator, Louise Llewellyn Jarecka (1880-1954): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Jarecka @wikiwomeninred #WomeninMusic #Poland #WWII #WomenWriters #Folksong #Weaving #Kansas
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Alasdair Roberts & Robin Robertson – Leaving St Kilda
At last we turn away, and see them
leading us: bow-riding dolphins,
our grey familiars,
and thirty gannets in a line
drawing straight from Boreray:
a gannet guard
for this far passage,
for the leaving of St Kilda.A collaboration between folk musician Alasdair Roberts & poet Robin Robertson, from their album Hirta Songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2RUTp8vlkU
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folksong #folkmusic #StKilda #islands
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Could this be the shortest #folkSong ever? So Selfish Runs The Hare (despite the title, it's about an ox calf)
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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.
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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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O rowan tree, o rowan tree,
Thou’lt aye be dear tae me,
Entwin’d thou art wi mony ties
O hame and infancy…Hear Hannah Rarity & Innes White sing Carolina Oliphant’s “The Rowan Tree”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMrldnhS_MY
#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage
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The Laird o’ Cockpen, he’s proud an’ he’s great,
His mind is ta’en up wi’ the things o’ the State…Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne (1766–1845) was born #OTD, 16 Aug. Oliphant wrote over 100 popular songs to traditional Scottish tunes. Although she shunned publicity & never acknowledged her authorship, along with Robert Burns she is one of the most significant figures in Scottish folksong
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#Scottish #literature #song #folksong #18thcentury #19thcentury #womenwriters #Scots #Scotslanguage
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"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz. The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "The #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. The oldest recorded version known is that of Álvaro Hernández Ortiz.
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Dick Gaughan sings Robert Burns’s “Song, Composed in August” (“Now Westlin Winds”), live at Harvard, 1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=vZ7oYCx6tBw
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Now westlin winds, and slaught’ring guns
Bring Autumn’s pleasant weather;
And the moorcock springs, on whirring wings,
Amang the blooming heather…—Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in August”
First published in POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT (Kilmarnock, 1786)Pages digitised by the National Library of Scotland
#Scottish #literature #poetry #song #folksong #RobertBurns #18thcentury #nature #environment
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Since it's Bandcamp Friday, Songs of Love, Lust and Loss
https://grahamirwin.bandcamp.com/album/songs-of-love-lust-and-loss
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Listen to Ossian’s version of Robert Burns’ “Corn Rigs”, from their 1981 album SEAL SONG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RU6f21Bdsbg&list=PLF04F88F9D6E44609
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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It was upon a Lammas night,
When corn rigs are bonie,
Beneath the moon’s unclouded light,
I held awa to Annie…—Robert Burns, “Corn Rigs”
pages from Robert Burns: Selected Poems & Songs (OUP, 2013)Today, 1 August, is Lammas Day
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-poems-and-songs-9780199682324?cc=gb&lang=en&
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #song #18thcentury #folksong #RobertBurns #Lammas #LammasDay #romanticism #Scots #Scotslanguage
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youtu.be/yn4J6uaZ4KM?...
A bright Lammas to you all!
Here's my song 'Corn Jenny' from the closing ceremony of Festival at the Edge a couple of years ago. That was a joyful day! May yours be so today.
#folksong #folksinger
Corn Jenny -
"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 singers and became a major international hit for #RobertaFlack in 1972, winning #GrammyAwards for #RecordOfTheYear and #SongOfTheYear.
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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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Wayfaring Stranger
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Argyll & Isles Online Heritage Cafe with Dr Alasdair Whyte
29 July, free onlineThe July online Heritage cafe will host Dr Alasdair Whyte, singer, writer & research fellow in Celtic & Gaelic at the University of Glasgow.
Dr Whyte will be speaking about the songs & music of Argyll & Bute, & how they can help us understand the history & heritage of this part of Scotland.
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #folksong #music #history #musichistory #heritage
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Where is the Shearer of Glenshee buried?
Recorded in 1969: Belle Stewart tells the tale of the burial of “the Shearer of Glenshee” – one of many recordings of stories & songs by Belle Stewart on the Tobar an Dualchais / Kist o Riches website
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Belle Stewart (1906–1997) – singer, storyteller, tradition-bearer – was born #OTD, 18 July, in a bow tent on the banks of the Tay at Caputh, near Blairgowrie. She ranks alongside Jeannie Robertson in the roll of the finest Scots ballad-singers.
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Yesterday’s Toddington Tour was a good one - having fewer pubs to get around made it that bit less of a mad dash…
Anyway, here’s an authentic morris/folk experience - the legendary Barry Goodman performing the traditional end-of-the-tour song in the usual way: -
"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz. The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "The #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. The oldest recorded version known is that of Álvaro Hernández Ortiz.
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"Gotta Travel On" is an American #folksong. The earliest known version was printed in #CarlSandburg's #TheAmericanSongbag in 1927 under the title "Yonder Comes the High Sheriff" and several variations were recorded in the 1920s, but the best known version is credited to #PaulClayton, #TheWeavers, Larry Ehrlich, and Dave Lazer and was first recorded by #PeteSeeger in 1958. A 1958 recording by #BillyGrammer backed by the #AnitaKerr Singers reached #4 on the #USPopChart.
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