Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April

Subject: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 03:48 AM

To make it a music thread lets have a bit of Maggie Holland

And before anyone points out that I am part Russian - He is one of their patron saints too :-)

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 04:30 AM

Happy St George's Day; here John Kirkpatrick:

John Kirkpatrick - St George

LFF

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 05:12 AM

Would have been at Horwich tomorrow.....

Roin

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 05:13 AM

My letter B seems to be sticking on my laptop!

RoBin

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: GUEST,Henry the Human Fly
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 10:23 AM

Leave your factory, leave your forge...

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-)
From: The Sandman
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 05:29 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594JpY2ahFg The world turned upside down

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 23 Apr 21 - 06:48 PM

What a cart-full of fanny bullocks.I

Where is the editor?
A full minute of twiddling and tuning.

Sincerely,
Gargoyles

sorry about the recent chemo

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Acorn4
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 03:35 AM

Here's the world turned upside down again:-

Mick Mangan - Song for George

and again:-

On the Side of the Angels

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jack Campin
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 08:10 AM

Nearly all the messages about St George's Day I've seen this year have been from Catalonia.

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jos
Date: 24 Apr 21 - 08:17 AM

I have heard that the Catalan tradition for Saint George's Day is to give your loved one a book. (I don't know how old the tradition is. Maybe it was started as a promotion by a struggling bookseller.)

Subject: RE: Happy St Georges day :-) - 23 April
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Apr 21 - 06:30 AM

I've been getting a lot of book-related posts from Catalonia which fits in with that.

I recently listened to a CD "Igry Bagou" (Games of the Gods) from 2005 by the Belarus ethnographical vocal group Guda. They have some songs related to the Indo-European god Yaryla, who was Christianized as Yurya (St George). He is associated with thunder and the spring, in opposition to the dragon, who is a principle of darkness and the underworld. Seems to be an emanation of the supreme god Perun/Piarun. Which helps explain why he is so significant in some European traditions despite being such a dead loss as a historically real Christian saint (Gibbon had the goods on him).