VOTE! 2013 IMBOLC/LUGHNASADH MUSIC-PERFORMING ARTS

[Earthwoman]

Notice: Please use the poll to cast vote(s) for your favorite music and/or performance. You cannot select more than two. ONLY those votes submitted to the poll will be tallied. Votes submitted as posts below will not be counted.

[whosthemann]

Here is my entry into the Performing Arts Catagory. This is a song called, "I Come Singing" and it is performed by a small ensemble of the Portland Gay Men's Chorus of which I am a part of. The song credits are as follows:

I Come Singing
Eric William Barnum
TTBB, shaman drum

Performed by the Classical Ensemble, a part of the Portland Gay Men's Chorus

[ Play Quicktime file ] 1-02 I Come Singing.m4a [ 6.22 MiB | Viewed 377 times ]

[Gwion]

I’ll be inflicting this on my local folk singaround soon so why not share the pain I thought? It’s my song for Imbolc. https://soundcloud.com/sthomason-1/brides-song?in=sthomason-1/sets/myth-nature

I’ve put the words below, although to my mind songs are there to be sung rather than read!

BRIDȄ’S SONG

The dawn mist drifts across the silent fells,
The leaves are hung with Bridë’s silver tears,
They slowly fall from snowdrops' nodding bells,
As silently she weeps for passing years,
And as mist’s fingers slowly do retreat,
Valleys emerge below the rocky heights,
She mourns the loss from bracken hillsides steep,
Of old ways and the once-familiar sights.

The shepherd and the ploughboy no more seen,.
No longer walk along the hidden path,
No longer dancing on the village green,
The fair-folk long forgotten in the past.
The cross-road dances and the country fairs,
Stories and music brought us all delight,
The singing and the softly lilting airs,
And all the fiddlers playing through the night

But as her tears fall softly to the ground,
She hears the bleating of a lamb new-born,
And as she hears that old familiar sound,
She knows that life returns in spring’s bright morn,
And winter’s cold is lost with all its strife,
And feet as old as hills now dance again,
Bridë returns, to sing the song of life,
And all of nature joins in the refrain.

[clyffmydylltyn]

Here is my entry:

Greydance by Cliff Middleton

[Earthwoman]

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