#midsummer playlist

[courtleymanor]

Midsummer

Songs for Midsummer, what some call Litha.

i don't know if anyone on here cares about my yt playlists but i do enjoy making them. this one's for midsummer/litha (summer solstice)

[iolitewitchcraft]

Anyone working on Midsummer playlists?

Here's one I made a couple years ago with a variety of genres:

Strawberry Swing - Coldplay

Litha - Sowulo

All Summer Long - Kid Rock

Fireflies - Owl City

Litha - Threefold

Tokyo Nights - Digital Farm Animals, Shaun Frank, Dragonette

Svitjod - Forndom (this one sounds exactly the way heat distortion in the air looks to me. Just picture dry grass and buzzing insects and suffocating heat. Perhaps better suited to late July)

Now Welcom Somer - Mediæval Bæbes

Green Man - Magicfolk

Rose Buds in June/Mrs Preston's Hornpipe - The Imagined Village

Midsummer's Night - Dervish

Midsummer Night - Mirabai Ceiba

Noon of the Solstice - Damh the Bard

King of Morning, Queen of Day - Horslips

King of the Fairies - Maidens of the Celtic Harp

Solstice Call - Gaia Consort

Come Sail Away - Styx

I'm supposed to be working from home but instead I'm editing this playlist. What are your favorite Midsummer songs?

[courtleymanor]

Ashley Wagner - Titania's Lullaby

from my Midsummer music playlist

You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen; Newts and blind-worms, do no wrong; Come not near our fairy queen.

Weaving spiders, come not here; Hence, you long-legged spinners, hence! Beetles black, approach not near; Worm nor snail, do no offence.

Philomel, with melody, Sing in our sweet lullaby; Lulla, lulla, lullaby; lulla, lulla, lullaby! Never harm, Nor spell, nor charm, Come our lovely lady nigh; So, good-night, with lullaby.

~William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, II, ii

[courtleymanor]

Parnassus - Oh Shit, It's The Faeries

from my Midsummer music playlist

Under the starlight The shadows are shifting If you look to the corner In the blink of an eye

They'll appear in their céilí A-dancing and whirling If they knew you were watching They'd quick disappear

It's the Faith of the faeries They twirl in The moonlight

Laughter and dancing Entrancing you in…

[courtleymanor]

Damh The Bard - The Hills They Are Hollow

from my Midsummer music playlist

And the hills They are hollow And home to the Fey Who dance On Midsummer's Eve

Some people Don't understand When I say

These are the things I believe...

[courtleymanor]

Lady Isadora - Come, Witches, To The Dance

from my Midsummer music playlist

Come, Witches, to the Dance To the merry Dance Our Lady loves Our Lord, oh

With pipe and drum In Moon and Sun For fair Dian And merry Pan

The old ways Are made young, Oh The old ways Are made young

When midnight fills the sky My true love and I Will cast a Circle round, Oh

With voices strong In chant and song We'll work our will And drink our fill

And dance the Darkness down, Oh And dance the Darkness down…

[courtleymanor]

The Quickening - The Oak

from my Midsummer music playlist

For shelter and shade Has the oak tree grown The ship, the cradle The hearth, and home

Arms so strong They hold the sky Stood so long that The heart can't die

The limbs, the veins The head and the heart The earth, the roots The leaves and the bark

Tear the branch And your crops will fail Break the bough And your fleet won't sail

It cries when The black rain burns Trees die when The seas return

A dozen generations Has the oak tree grown The roots reach deep To the rocks and bones

Arms so strong They hold up the sky Stood so long that The heart can't die

The limbs, the veins The head and the heart The earth, the roots The leaves and the bark

[courtleymanor]

Renaissance - Carpet Of The Sun

from my Midsummer music playlist

Come along with me Down into the world of seeing Come and you'll be free Take the time to find the feeling See everything on its own And you'll find you know the way And you'll know the things you're shown Owe everything to the day

See the carpet of the sun The green grass soft and sweet Sands upon the shores of time Of oceans mountains deep Part of the world that you live in You are the part that you're giving

Come into the day Feel the sunshine warmth around you Sounds from far away Music of the love that found you The seed that you plant today Tomorrow will be a tree And living goes on this way It's all part of you and me