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Everyone grab your fiddle for Beltane/May Day celebration?
There's Morris dancing tunes & fiddling tunes passed down in John Playford's tunebooks!
Beltane Border Morris - Firedance, today!
The Cherry Tree March and the Mayday Rant by Andrew Burns - performed by Camus.
...for winding down the day:
May Day - The Fitzgeralds.
A few tunes to try:
The Mayday - Hornpipe
The First of May - Jig, from piper tradition
The First of May - more, take your pick.
The Flowers In May - Hornpipe
Jack O' (of, on, in) The Green - Slip Jig, or Three-Two
Jack's Alive - Jig
Jack's (is Yet) Alive - Reel
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always associated May Day with other things. like parades with tanks and stuff. interesting you found other things associated with it and a quick search barely reveals what it was... im sure it goes back further than the former.. but i think kinda weird.
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May Day Waltz - Matt & Tom Turino.
Young May Moon (Jig) - Deb Chalmers. Quite a bit of info & notation on The Session.
I believe the Hawthorn tree was traditionally decorated for Beltane!
The Hawthorn Tree of Cawdor - beautiful when played slow like this (Duncan Lean)!
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always associated May Day with other things. like parades with tanks and stuff. interesting you found other things associated with it and a quick search barely reveals what it was... im sure it goes back further than the former.. but i think kinda weird.
Sorry, got carried away adding stuff & missed you (I still have a couple more tunes)!
Yeah me too, I didn't know anything about Beltane, or any of the pagan celebration until finding Irish (and other) traditions along with the fiddle tunes!
Growing up, I'd seen images in old books - girls dancing around the 'May Pole' (maybe fairy tales, or poems), didn't know why or what for. Didn't really know anything about 'the Green Man', except I'd seen some relief carvings on tiles.
Wow... Jethro Tull's 'Songs From The Woods' Album (1977) all MAKE SENSE TO ME NOW! 🤣
Jack-in-the-Green - Jethro Tull! 'Songs From The Woods' Album PLAYLIST (including the title song & 'Beltane'). Stepping back into my favorite decade of music! Geez, I have to get back to playing with my amp.
I didn't realize (until today) that the medieval-sounding Flemish tune, 'The Bear Dance' is also known as 'Planting The Maypole'.
Oooooh... what about - The Wickerman? Humor in fantastical horror... or just plain disturbing?
Maypole Song
The Maypole Dance No.2 - Bela Bartok (44 Duos for 2 Violins). Duet arranged for Violas & played by Szczepan Pytel.
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