Featuring synth-y Silly Wizard, a take on the child ballad Edward from Steeleye Span, Incredible String Band, and Alan Stivell.
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And this is what Brahms did with Edward (can you hear the blood dripping?):
Samples from Andy Votel’s (Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys) compilation on Finders Keepers: Welsh Rare Beat (pun on the famous dish Welsh rarebit/rabbit), and the Chieftains’s 1987 debut in China.
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Featuring Bill Whelan’s Connemara Suite
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Do you see the profile? Taken just outside of Galway, Ireland.
I know this is a bit late, but it’s probably one of my most magical sets.
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The Mari Lwyd (”Grey Mare”) is a Welsh new year tradition, and involves a mare’s skull, lots of singing, and rhyming competitions.
Image copyright Michelle Griffiths
I bought a hammered dulcimer and Drag City reissued some Bert Jansch. The product:
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So I played an entire album:
Blodeugerdd, Song of the Flowers: An Anthology of Welsh Music and Song (Smithsonian Folkways, 2009), Click!
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It’s Welsh and wunderbar!
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