faire music...

[acroyear]

"If you were putting together a CD of faire music that has special meaning to you .... that reflects your own faire experience, what songs would you include? Feel free to use groups that are no longer together. There is a fifteen song limit."

1. Great Western Hornpipe Set -- Cathy Palmer
   
2. Thing Be -- Baudy Balladeers
   
3. The Nutting Girl -- Ironweed
   
4. Your Day In the Barrel -- Crimson Pirates
   
5. Bring Us More Beer -- Poxy Boggards
   
6. Raggle Taggle Gypsy (medley with Greek dance tune) -- Gypsophelia
   
7. The Hat Came Back -- Empty Hats
   
8. Pirate's Life -- The Shantyman
   
9. Don't Sail There -- Pyrates Royale
   
10. Cullen Anderson -- The Rogues (of Scotland) -- Hollerin' for Haggis version
    
11. Fugi Fugi Fugi -- Owain Phyfe
    
12. Breton dance tunes -- Iona
    
13. King of the Cannibal Islands -- The Corsairs
    
14. Roll Your Leg Over -- Full Measure + The Merry Minstrel
    
15. Mist Covered Mountains -- Pyrates Royale
    
16. Beggars to God -- Empty Hats
    
17. Health to the Company -- Minstrosity, featuring Cyd Shelby on violin
    

obligatory hidden bonus tracks:

• The Mighty Mary Lee -- Minstrosity
  
• We Say Fuck -- Poxy Boggards
  
• The Rooster, The Donkey, The Dog, The Wife's Cat -- Poxy Boggards
  
• variations on a theme -- The Corsairs (hint: same lyric, about 12 different tunes)
  

The Full Measure / Merry Minstrel was, of course, never recorded/released, but it was a hell of a show to catch @ the White Hart on Full Measure's final performance.

Some of the others do show my age around MDRF, of course...

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Ironweed! Someone else out there knows Ironweed! (I've known Craig a long, looooonnnnggg time...)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

as I posted here, without Ironweed, I possibly might not be doing the show I'm doing @ faire.

But I'm an old-timer now (not as old as some, of course), having just finished my 10th season working for the faire in some capacity or another.

Officially, I've been part of Three Left Feet (1995-1999), Charm City Rapper (1998-2002), Morning Musical Merrymaking (2000-present), Irish Music and Dance with the Ditties (2000), Pub Sing (1999), Twelfth Night (2004), and Cat & Fiddle Morris (2001-present). Unofficially during all that time, I've performed with the Rogues, Ironweed, Washington Scottish Country Dance Society, various stages shows as an understudy for a village dancer, and the Pub Sing.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

forgot to mention -- i have on video tape a show of their's from around 1998, from Craig's evil twin's coffeehouse in alexandria, taped off of fairfax county public access.

[selkiesiren.livejournal.com]

:::giggles::: It's easy to know Craig a loooong loooong time. He's older than dirt...I get to say that, as I am as old as dirt, and he picks fun at me too.

But, yeah...we're familiar with Ironweed as well. I remember a time when there was no "Skivvy" in the Pyrates Royale, but there was an "Ironweed". I even have a pic of Craig singing with us just for fun before he actually joined the band.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

in hindsight, i now think that if there was room for *one more song* in the hidden extras list, i'd throw in Desdemona from Lost Boys.