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Category Archives: Spirituality and Philosophy
Happy 156th Birthday Mr Yeats
For Yeats Birthday this year, I recorded a setting of the poem The Two Trees. I purchased Loreena McKennitt’s album The Mask and Mirror very close to when it came out in 1994, but had never realised the lyrics to … Continue reading
Four Treasures of Ireland
I have been working my way through The Secret Rose and Other Stories, which is a compilation of several short stories and essays by William Butler Yeats. As a ballad collector and writer I was very pleased to find many … Continue reading
The Fall of Skywalker?
It is with some trepidation that I take my family to see the final installment in the Star Wars saga that has been running since the year I was born. A New Hope, just Star Wars back then, was the … Continue reading
Loving the Common People
A lot of folk song, due to its origin, speaks about poverty. Some songs that immediately come to mind are Poverty Knock, A Begging I will Go, Four Pence a Day and some that have been recycled several decades apart … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Post, Folk Music, Spirituality and Philosophy
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The Prodigal Guitar
Here is a picture of me back when I was young and naïve. I’m playing the guitar that my now beautiful and long-suffering wife (then girlfriend of 12 months) owned. From the class ring I’m wearing, it was probably the … Continue reading
The Stolen Rhyme
I have always loved the haunting ethereal beauty of Loreena McKennitt’s setting of William Butler Yeat’s poem, The Stolen Child, to music. I tried to practice singing the song before doing this recording for my YouTube channel, but even after … Continue reading
Dan Brown – Origin – A Guided Tour
I have been a big fan of Dan Brown’s books, all the way back to Digital Fortress and Deception Point. Origin, the latest book in the Robert Langdon series, is no exception. Even though the books follow a fairly predictable … Continue reading
Lessons from the Garden
Apart from my interest in folk music, I also love gardens. No so much the tame and manicured, but the rambling and full of life. Spring is one of the most beautiful times of year here in ‘cold-climate’ Australia, The … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Post, Spirituality and Philosophy
Tagged Ayahuasca, Gardening, Organic, Roses
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Faery Exodus in 1530
I have been reading Rudyard Kipling’s book Puck of Pook’s Hill, after being prompted to look at his poetry after hearing some of Leslie Fish’s recordings (Oak and Ash and Thorn in particular). Earlier in the book I read Sir … Continue reading
Posted in Ballad Analysis, Blog Post, Folk Music, Spirituality and Philosophy
Tagged Dymchurch Flit, Faery Folk, folk music, Old England, Rudyard Kipling
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Charlottesville
We live in an age, for better or worse, where ignorance is no longer an excuse for bigotry. Back in the 1500s, you could excuse the populous for joining a bloody fight over a few flavours of Christianity. Even though … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Post, Folk Music, My Own Music, Spirituality and Philosophy
Tagged Charlottesville, Freedom of Speech, Racism, White Supremacists
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