Jan 2
Mrs. George Lingen
Artist: Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)
Date: 1842
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
seen from Brazil
seen from Malaysia
seen from China
seen from Philippines
seen from Philippines
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from China
seen from Malaysia
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Brazil
seen from United States
seen from Chile
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
Mrs. George Lingen
Artist: Thomas Sully (American, 1783–1872)
Date: 1842
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Art Institute Of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
green dividers
Green Ribbons appear to be playing twice on 13 March next year, in London, on their own in the afternoon, and alongside some of the Seeger/MacColl dynasty in the evening.
Green Ribbons will be joining us on Tuesday 9th November for an evening celebrating unaccompanied song. Ahead of the gig, we caught up with them to find out
A short interview with Green Ribbons as a reminder for their online performance on Tuesday (9th November). The link for tickets is at the bottom of the page.
Occasional links 2021-10-17
Not on his website yet (but on his booking agent's): Alasdair plays next Sunday as part of a mini-festival in Banchory : tickets.
Green Ribbons play an online gig on 9 November.
Fausto Meirana reviews The Old Fabled River for TomTomRock (in Italian).
From a Folk Radio UK interview with Karine Polwart and Dave Milligan:
A particular favourite on the album is Alasdair Roberts’ ‘The Old Men of the Shells’. For the track, Dave added some touches from the tradition of the piobaireachd, or pipe music, a potential challenge for a pianist.
“I wasn’t aware of the song before Karine brought it to the table,” notes Dave, “but Karine told me about the connection with the tune. One of the rabbit holes that I found myself going down recently is pipe music and a distant fascination with piobaireachd itself. It’s one of these things I’ve been meaning to explore on the piano, which is a little bit strange in itself, but I’ve been doing it slowly.
“When Karine brought this song, I went and found the piobaireachd of the same name. It’s actually in a book which was sitting on my piano at the time, the Kilberry Book of Ceol Mor, a well-known book amongst pipers. I managed to play something like one bar of it in the song! If you play that Piobaireachd in its entirety, it’s about 11 minutes long!”
“The deluxe version of the album is going to have that extra extended prog version of that on it!” jokes Karine.
“It was lovely to kind of delve into that,” adds Dave, “but I must have done hours of dissecting just to come up with, literally, a couple of bars that would fit within the song, but there’s another project coming along anytime in the next decade, so just watch out for that!”
Green Ribbons have a website (can't remember if I'd spotted that before), and two new gigs:
10 November in Glasgow
11 November in Newcastle
2021-07-24 Green Ribbons at Glengall Wharf Garden, London
No Frankie Armstrong here, but she was replaced by two singers whose names I'm afraid I didn't catch (so they will have to be, from left, Singer 1 and Singer 2).
Setlist:
The Well Below the Valley
My Geordie, Oh
Sweet Swansea [led by Singer 1]
Garden Song
The Heathery Hills
Running Waters (?) [led by Singer 2]
Here’s a Health Unto All True Lovers
Green Ribbons
Jeannie Jenkins [from the singing of Isla st Clair]
Meeting is Over [from the singing of Dillard Chandler]
Lady Margaret