All booked up for this year’s vakafolk.is. See you in Akureyri in June!

Anyone know the name/origin/lyrics of a probably English xmas-themed folk song with this chorus:

Bring in the green bring in the green
for it is our desire
to celebrate the holiday
with food and drink and fire

Various google searchings reveal nothing, and I never got a copy of the lyrics.

Wonderful vocal harmonies in this T Sisters version of Come When I Call You:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPZX7fnCmc

#listening to Aldrei skal eg gleymur þér by FUNI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcSG0sxqsMM

With beautiful #iceland photos taken by Chris and Bára, which I stitched together into a video.

Currently #listening to Ekkillinn frá Álfahamri by FUNI. Wow. Beautiful singing and guitar harmonies.

Loving Muha’s crisp sounds. Modern Eastern European folk with a gurdy is a good combo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bIvFg5fXUM

Context: Tam Lyn

tradition.is was thoroughly enjoyable and filled with excellent music+dancing — met new friends, learned new tunes+dances+singing styles and generally had a good time. Longer blog post upcoming, for now here’s my post-festival #tabdump:

• vastanateater.se/
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butoh
• vakevacollective.com
• dakhabrakha.com.ua/eng/band
• myspace.com/honndalstausene
• kansanmusiikki.fi/en
• last.fm/music/Glima
• facebook.com/bafnu
• funi-iceland.com
• suunta.maanite.fi

Not all necessarily related to the festival, but learned about in the duration. Amusingly, last.fm/music/BLM has a big photo of the BLM which performed at tradition.is, but is about someone completely different!

Checked into Háskóli Akureyri for tradition.is workshop day two

What is Folk Music Anyway? — great writing and thinking as usual by Robin Andrews #bookmark

#listening to “The Great Fishfinger Disaster” by Hanging Johnny. Mentally substituting “fiskibollur”, which I have just eaten for the first time.

Finally got a name for my #trance #folk composition! "Too much too soon"