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What are you learning for the holidays?
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Scabby Douglas Date: 15 Nov 02 - 07:12 AM I wasn't learning anything but now I am... I'm the Man That Slits the Turkeys' Throats at Christmas... Cheers Steven |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Bert Date: 14 Nov 02 - 08:21 PM Fishguard Eh sian! I remember camping there one time, up on a hill almost in town. The soil was only about two inches deep and we couldn't get our tent pegs to hold. It was blowing up a storm, so we storm rigged our tent, tied the guys to our bikes and went down the pub to meet some friends. Everything was fine when we got back, which was just as well because we would have been in no condition to pitch our tent again. |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Genie Date: 14 Nov 02 - 07:54 PM Peg, the Unitarian choir I sing in has done "Lullay Mine Lyking" and it's really lovely. I may add that one, too. Problem with Christmas/Holiday programs is that most of mine are only an hour long, and I have about 3 or 4 hours worth of material that I get to do ONLY at this time of year! I love it when I get to do seasonal songs other than "the usual suspects." Genie |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 14 Nov 02 - 03:49 PM Well, Art, there are some things we are better off not to learn. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: black walnut Date: 14 Nov 02 - 03:47 PM I'm playing harp for a Celtic Christmas service on December 22, so a few things I've yet to learn for that. I'll possibly be playing on the Sussex Carol, Il est ne, Holy Saviour Yet So Tiny, Taladh Chriosda, and The King. ~b.w. |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Art Thieme Date: 14 Nov 02 - 03:40 PM At age 61 you might think I'd learn not to eat too much, but... Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 14 Nov 02 - 12:31 PM Oh yes, Peg I might have a go at that too. |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Peg Date: 14 Nov 02 - 08:49 AM Don in Yon Forest is beautiful; I may learn that! Also working on Lullay My Liking (did not memorize last year). Not sure where I might sing any of this as the singers' club in Boston is not happening any more...but maybe there wil be some ceilis here or there... peg |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 13 Nov 02 - 02:54 PM Thanks for the reminder, Kim C. I really love Nothing But A Child... maybe it's time I learned it... might be interesting to do with a black gospel quaret.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Amergin Date: 13 Nov 02 - 02:00 PM to be more of a pain in the arse than i already am..... |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 13 Nov 02 - 01:35 PM 'Santa Baby' and 'Gaudete' and maybe brush up some other old songs like 'Adam lay ybounden' and 'Down in Yon Forest' |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 13 Nov 02 - 11:21 AM That's all right, Jed. :-) The more the merrier! |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: JedMarum Date: 13 Nov 02 - 10:42 AM sorry Kim - I didn't see this thread and I started a similar one (Christmas Songs). Great minds think alike, eh? |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: sian, west wales Date: 13 Nov 02 - 10:22 AM Bee-dubya, your ref. to "that stiff cadence that they're usually done in and just pretend you're playing them for a contra-dance: Deck the Halls" took me aback! Deck the Halls (Nos Galan) is a dance tune and, even when we sing it here, it still goes like the clappers. The dance version has a few more twiddly bits in it than the sung one, and is a VERY popular dance tune in twmpathau (folk dances)! I could probably scan the dots for it (and the other two usually included in the same set) if you PMed me. sian p.s. Is 'going like the clappers' trans-atlantic or a Brit thing? Or maybe Welsh? I've lived here so long I'm not sure what's understood where! |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: PaulBobbyBuzz Date: 13 Nov 02 - 10:04 AM Have to pull out Bruce Cockburn's "Cry of a Tiny Babe" every Christmas, and that always gets me listening to the rest of that great tape. Might try "A Soulin'" this year with some pals in a singaround...the more voices the better on that one. pbb |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 13 Nov 02 - 09:50 AM Those are all good, Mudlark... I like 'em too. :-) |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Mudlark Date: 13 Nov 02 - 12:38 AM I'm struggling to get my folkie chord repertoire around I'll Be Seeing You, for a Hospice tree lighting ceremony in mid-december. And that has put me in the mood for likewise trying to figure out I'll be Home for Christmas and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, 2 of my favorite secular Xmas songs... |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 12 Nov 02 - 10:11 AM Wow, Genie, you're busy! I like Riu Riu Chiu also. I believe it was Mousethief, a long time ago, that turned me onto that Bruce Cockburn Christmas CD. It's become one of my favorites. (thanks, Mouse, if you're out there) I've never attempted Christmas in the Trenches because I cry every damn time I hear it. One that still gets me all misty is Steve Earle's Nothing But a Child. |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: mg Date: 11 Nov 02 - 11:13 PM I think Sweet Maple Sugar Honey Hot Buttered Rum is just a great song...maybe I'll learn that. mg |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 11 Nov 02 - 10:52 PM I've been working on Christmas in the Trenches since early September. I figure that if I sing it once a day for almost four months that I'll be able to do it without choking up by the time Christmas gets here. I've been talking with some old-time style fiddlers about working up some of the standard carols as old-timey tunes. If you get rid of that stiff cadence that they're usually done in and just pretend you're playing them for a contra-dance Deck the Halls, Good King Wenceslas (Sp?) and several others make really cool fiddle tunes. Bruce |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Genie Date: 11 Nov 02 - 08:51 PM Well, among new songs I'm learning (or old songs I'm newly learning) are: Raise All Your Voices -- CapriUni's new solstice carol Mary Had A Baby Joseph, Lieber Christmas In Oregon (funny song by Jinx Davis) Candles -- Malvina Reynolds Follow, Now, O Shepherds (Kingtson Trio) The Man With The Bag My Christmas Wish (sung by Anne Murray) Mighty Lak' A Rose and maybe Christmas In The Trenches (don't have a good venue for singing it, though, except song circles) Songs I've got to do a refresher course on for this season include: Genie |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:57 PM Well, for starters, there's Great Day In December, recorded by the Swan Silvertones, and No Room At The Inn, recorded by several people including Mahalia Jackson... give me some time to think of some more. I wrote a song we do, Without That Night, that came out of a dream of being in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, the night that Christ was born, and going out to the manger to find it empty... A "what if Christ had never been born" song ... I think I've probably sent you that one, Sian.. I'm not suggesting a whole mother lode of songs, here... probably one or two more unusual songs that I think are good... Harry Belefonte did a wonderful Christmas album that has been re-issued on CD with several beautiful, relatively obscure Christmas songs on it, too. I'll dig it out.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: denise:^) Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:55 PM I'm refreshing my memory on a pretty extensive HD arrangement of "Greensleeves," (or "What Child is This?" from Thanksgiving 'till New Year's Day)--and I'm hoping to create a nice arrangement of 'Wexford Carol' for hammered dulcimer, as well. denise:^) |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: sian, west wales Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:51 PM Yes, Jerry! Tell! Sounds interesting! sian |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:44 PM Jerry, what are some of those songs? |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:42 PM My gospel quartet will be doing a Christmas program at a health care center, and we're working on some new/old stuff. We already do a couple of unusual Christmas songs, but are working on a mdeley of traditional carols, with each of us taking turns leading a carol. There are some great Christmas songs in the black gospel tradition that never get sung. We'll try to learn at least a couple of new ones.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: fat B****rd Date: 11 Nov 02 - 03:23 PM Being as how I'm the "Works Santa" I have to bear in mind that the children who adore me (i.e the prezzies) should be able to identify with my theme music. This year I am writing "The Santa Rap" to be recorded in my friemd's bedroom studio. So you could say I'll be learning the words to my own song. For myself I shall learn "Honey take a whiff on me" and "Meet on the ledge" with a view to my imaginary return to the stage. |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:33 PM One of these days I want to learn the Huron Carol, maybe even in Huron (I have that Bruce Cockburn recording!), and O Holy Night in the original French. I would also like to add a Dutch carol to the list. So many tunes, so little time.... if only I could quit my job........ |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: mg Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:24 PM I'm learning CapriUni's new solstice carol and will bring it to Canada in a couple of weeks..not that they won't know it already by then probably... that is a good question. I learn so few songs. I am more of a chorus person. D of Victoria says she learns a new song for each camp she goes to, which is (a) a lot and (b) a good idea. mg |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: MMario Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:24 PM relearning the tenor harmony for "Silent Night" - trying to learn "Welcome Yule" and "Old Christmas" |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 11 Nov 02 - 12:06 PM Good luck, Sian! :-) |
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Subject: RE: What are you learning for the holidays? From: sian, west wales Date: 11 Nov 02 - 11:56 AM Well, this isn't EXACTLY the same thing, but I'm in the final throws of organising a one-day Forum on seasonal Welsh trad. song - "A Song for Every Season" - in Fishguard on Nov 23rd. I guess, between organising the name tags, B&B, coffee, speakers, et al., I better brush up on some of the Welsh Plygain carols too but - hoo Boy! - talk about complicated lyrics! sian |
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Subject: What are you learning for the holidays? From: Kim C Date: 11 Nov 02 - 11:33 AM Greetings, Friends. While some of us agree that it's too early to be doing a lot of holiday stuff (i.e., shopping), it's certainly not too early to be brushing up on the holiday song repertoire! This year I am learning Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen - in German. I almost have it! We are only doing 3 verses though. Polishing up the Wexford Carol, and working on In Praise of Christmas. What's everyone else doing? |
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