Bardic Directory

[Explorer]

Greetings fellow Bards!

Bards, please make 1 post.

And in that 1 post please put the links to your songs (mp3) that you want to share. Like your contributions to the Eisteddfods or RadioDruid.

If you want to add songs later, then please simply edit that post. That way this thread will become an easy to use directory to find our music.

Also, please no discussions IN this particular thread to keep it a clean directory only.

blessings,
Explorer
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I have made this a sticky and also request that in the spirit of the thread we keep this as a list/directory. KL

[Explorer]

My songs on the Wheel

DHP Eisteddfod Entries
It happened In The Trees (Lughnasadh 2005 - )

Under the Beltane sky (Beltane 2006)
Cerridwen (Beltane 2006)
My Name Is Lugh (Lughnasadh 2006 - )
Alban Eilir (Lughnasadh 2007 - )
The Wanderer (Samhuinn 2007 - )

Lady in White (Imbolc 2008 - )
Three Times the Sun (Beltane 2008 - )

[Twyrch]

Legacies   (Lughnasadh 2007 entry)

[Calluna le Fay]

Samhain
Evenwicht
The Dragon
Summertune
(= DHP Eisteddfod Entry Lughnasadh 2007)
Nightsong
The Dance
Brigit van Bron en Vlam
The Wanderer
( = DHP Eisteddfod Entry Samhuinn 2007)

[Abhaill]

Music & Lyrics by me unless otherwise stated:

Samhain
From the Stormcloud
The Coming of Winter (Words from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson’s translation of the poem by the same name, #13 in A Celtic Miscellany)

Winter Solstice
O Mighty Melancholy Wind (Words for the first verse from John Todhunter’s poem by the same name; tune of ‘God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen)
Starlight

Imbolc
Come and Gather
Cross of Bride
This a Girdle
Your Mantle, o Bride

Summer Solstice
Sun of the Seasons (Words from hymn 316, in Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica)

Chants
Be Thou (Words based on first verse of hymn 266, in Alexander Carmichael’s Carmina Gadelica)
Céad Míle Fáilte
Down, Down, Down
Druid Prayer (Words by OBOD)
Flying
Foundation
I Step
Imbas, Fill Me Up
In a Currach
Moment Live On
Songs of the Wheel
The Bones Song (Lughnasadh 2007 Eisteddfod entry)
Three Great Powers (Words from Irish triad collected / translated by Lady Wilde)

Songs
Blessed Be The Earth (Melody called ‘Slane,’ traditional Irish folk tune normally paired with the hymn, ‘Be Thou My Vision’)
By and By (Bealtaine 2008 Eisteddfod entry)
Deep Peace (Words based on traditional Iona community blessing)
Faith
Forest Walk
Lament of the Old Woman of Beare (Imbolc 2007 Eisteddfod entry; words attributed to the Cailleach Beare, exact author debated, as translated by Kuno Meyer)
Lullaby (Samhain 2006 Eisteddfod entry)
Prayer to Manannan
Samhain (Samhain 2007 Eisteddfod entry)
Shape
Shell of Corn (Bealtaine 2008 Eisteddfod entry - Memorial/Seasonal category)
The Nine Elements
The Song of Wandering Aengus (Bealtaine 2007 Eisteddfod entry; words from William Butler Yeats’ poem by the same name)
To Know Me
We Know
Young, the Son (Words attributed to Bóand in ‘The Wooing of Étaín,’ as translated by Jeffrey Gantz in Early Irish Myths and Sagas)


~ Abhaill

[Hengist]

Links to my webspaces:

My own page

http://www.seadna.net/hengist/

The myspace page for my band, which I write the music for

http://www.myspace.com/riverflow1

[Silverwheel]

Hello Everyone!

Yes - I'm excited! My first CD, titled Silverwheel, is available for purchase at CD Baby!

There are some samples there, as well as a link to my official website, but I'll link that here, too. The official website has a lot more pictures, of course. So click on the links! Listen to the samples! Log on and say nice things - the CD is so new that you could be the first and set the standard! Buy the CD!
And every copy sold gets a dollar for the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

[Paul Mitchell]

Samples available here...

http://www.myspace.com/pagansatire

Be aware, sometimes there are rude words.

[halleyween]

This is a link to a project that a bunch of pagan women in Salt Lake City, UT got together and did. It's called the "Community Song Cycle" and is a great resource for chants, etc. There are lyrics and all the mp3s on the site. There are also some bonus tracks. You can easily fit all those songs and bonus tracks onto an audio CD for listening to in the car!!

http://www.bornpagan.com/upca/song_cycle/

[Fox]

I have been putting the lyrics and rough recordings of the songs I've written up onto my blog:

http://paulmilne.wordpress.com/

The songs are not all particularly "druidic" in subject matter, but I consider all creative work essentially bardic in nature.

Available recordings are

Snowdrops

The Year of Jubilo

The Running of the Deer

The above listing is in chronological order, oldest at the top.

Amendment 21/9/08: I have taken down some sound files as I don't think they do the songs justice. I'm going to try and re-record them and repost them, but I can't say when that might be.

[malcolmb]

I hope everyone will please excuse me if I just post a link to my soundclick player as I don’t know how to make a link for each individual piece. If someone would tell me, I would be grateful.

http://www.soundclick.com/malcolmbrown

Click on “music page” just above the player box to go to the full listing. On this link you will find:

The Druid Vow (revised)
The Gorsedd Prayer (including opening and closing the Quarters)

The Eightfold Year Suite (orchestral and choral) consisting of:
Imbolc
Alban Eiler
Beltane Fire Dance
Beltane May Day
Summer Solstice
Lughnasadh
Alban Elfed – Autumn falls
Alban Elfed – Bring the harvest home
Samhuinn
Winter Solstice

The Longstone
Celtic Dance

The Faerie Suite consisting of:
Wilde Wood
Queen’s Waltz
Lament for Mother Earth
Merrie Meet

And more!

All pieces are free to download.

[halleyween]

This is nothing much, and the sound quality is drek, but I just wanted to "link drop"

http://myspace.com/halleytheharper

[=West=]

Greetings, fellow bards!

My new website, http://west.fm - is now up and running. It is a place to find writings, poetry, prose, and of course MUSIC!

One of my older albums is available already, and new music and recordings are forthcoming.

[Wailand]

You can find my music at:

http://www.myspace.com/aharg and some of the same but also some other songs at http://www.wildyew.com on the Poems & Music page

Blessings

Andrew

[Aelfarh]

Here is mine

ÆLFARH

The good thing is that this site pay the artist for every download and still you can download the music for free, and even some part of that revenues go to charity

[Corwen]

Just finished a version of John Barleycorn we recorded for the forthcoming Pagan Folk Against Fascism CD organised by Paul Mitchell.

If you haven't heard of Folk Against Fascism, basically its a response to the BNP's attempt to infiltrate the folk scene and use folk music for fund raising and to promote their evil racist policies, please check out the Folk Against Fascism website for more information.

Kate and I have contributed a remixed version of Sweet England from her CD and a specially recorded version of John Barleycorn, featuring our wheezy asthmatic pedal harmonium (and my wheezy asthmatic singing!). You can hear our version of John Barleycorn here:http://www.ancientmusic.co.uk/rigantona/sounds/kate_corwen_barleycorn.mp3

The words and tune of this version were collected by Cecil Sharp from the singing of Robert Pope of Alcombe in Sussex, some time before 1906.

[Fox]

All the info on my listing above is completely out of date - is there any way I can edit it, or delete and start again? Or does anyone ever even look at this thread?

[Explorer]

All the info on my listing above is completely out of date - is there any way I can edit it, or delete and start again? Or does anyone ever even look at this thread?

My orignal idea (6 years ago!?) was that we could all edit our own single post, that was still possible then.
But we haven't been able to edit our older posts for a long time, so everything has become outdated.
So I guess this 'bardic directory' is no longer really working.

[elderberrymaid]

Hi, I think the Bardic Directory is still a good idea, and I don't think it matters if the entries are a few years old, as it's become a growing accumulation of druid / pagan / nature-related music and people can still follow the links or look up the music online. Music is timeless. So personally I would keep it as it is and continue to watch it grow. I wrote some music last year which I'd like to add when it's recorded.