Beating the bounds
Everything you ever wished to know about the long-surviving custom, beating the bounds, but were too afraid to ask.
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Everything you ever wished to know about the long-surviving custom, beating the bounds, but were too afraid to ask.
"Before lockdown, we could just about fill a pub in Bristol. Two years later... well, it's been very odd." The Longest Johns discuss taking traditional songs to some of the biggest audiences ever.
In this beautiful prose poem, Colin Williams navigates themes of migration, memory, oral tradition, and the people of the Danish Wadden Sea.
Wassailing season
From the nearest wassail to you, to memories of Blur wassailing at Stonehenge...
Soak your toast in cider, grab your pans and wooden spoons, and head out into your nearest orchard to awaken the sleeping trees and wassail the evil spirits away.
Eliza Carthy and Jon Boden swap Yuletide memories with Jon Wilks, ahead of their Union Chapel Wassail.
In 1992, Britpop band, Blur, found time in the studio to record 'The Gloucestershire Wassail'. Here's the story of how it came to pass.
Ready to start wassailing? Not even sure what wassailing is? Here's everything you need to know to get a good wassail going.
The Old Songs Podcast
Exploring traditional folk music one song at a time.
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Reviewing the latest releases on the traditional folk music scene. We focus on traditional music, or music that has been directly inspired by it.
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