Tag Archives: Anais Mitchell

Some multi-cultural songs

Posted on 24/06/2018 by dougaj4

The latest concert of the excellent Willoughby Symphony Choir featured a collection of popular and folk songs, rather than their usual classical performances.  I was struck by the mixture of cultural influences in many of the songs, and have collected  a … Continue reading →

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Two songs = 2/3 Wikipedia

Posted on 06/06/2018 by dougaj4

It is said that a picture is worth a 1000 words. On the same basis, a poem is worth 1000 pictures, and a song is worth 1000 poems. So two songs are worth 2 billion words, which is about 2/3 … Continue reading →

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More on building bridges, not walls

Posted on 03/02/2018 by dougaj4

In June last year I posted a link to a Jeremy Corbyn speech on the topic of building bridges, not walls. Here are a couple of (more poetic) links on the same topic. The first is from Anaïs Mitchell.  This … Continue reading →

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Two forks in the Celtic path

Posted on 14/01/2018 by dougaj4

Re-visiting the Steeleye Span version of Tam Lin lead me to two very different musical groups that I had not heard of before: Anaïs Mitchell is an American singer-songwriter and musician, here performing another version of Tam Lin with Jefferson Hamer: … Continue reading →

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