Fair dues Jonny, this is a brilliant podcast. A lot of research. Much appreciated. Grma!

Its funny that they say they don't happen anymore, did they die down or did they really die out in places? Its alive and well in Inishbofin and from the looks of it on the surrounding mainland.

Régime des Fleurs

Foam

popping out

NTS Session 3

glos ceramic

Space Birds

The Sum of Our Wounds (Cassette Recordings 1973-85)

Skateboard

If I don't make it, I love u

no sleep deep risk

I made this piece in 1984-86. It's for 6 electric guitars in special tunings. Also electric bass and drums. On this recording the guitarists are Karen Haglof, Robert Poss, Bill Brovold,Tim Schellenbaum, Mitch Salmen,   and Ben Neill. Konrad Kinard is on electric bass. J.p. Thunderbolt Patterson is on drums. Cover art by Robert Longo.

Die Donnergötter (The Thundergods)

Bastards

Dark Matter (Lava Onto Remodel)

Partitos

Midsummer has long been observed as a period of jubilant celebration, with communal gatherings at bonfires and prayers, recitations, music, songs, dance and merriment being the order of the night. 

Join Jonny for episode 25 of Blúiríní Béaloidis as he explores the origins of midsummer festivities in Europe; recounting the raucous antics of the Brotherhood of the Green Wolf in France, considering the eve of the feast of St. John the Baptist as a symbolic counterbalance to Christmas and focusing on the protective and magical properties of the night. The fires burn on every hill and height, join us as we celebrate midsummer!

Our thanks for Michael Anderson and Schola Antiqua for permission to include their beautiful rendition of 'Ut queant laxis' in this episode. To learn more, and support them directly visit: https://www.schola-antiqua.org/

Blúiríní Béaloidis 25 - Midsummer

Bluiríní Béaloidis is the podcast from The National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, and is a platform to explore Irish and wider European folk tradition across an array of subject areas and topics. Host Jonny Dillon hopes this tour through the folklore furrow will appeal to those who wish to learn about the richness and depth of their traditional cultural inheritance; that a knowledge and understanding of our past might inform our present and guide our future.

Podcasts are available for download directly from SoundCloud or via iTunes.

Blúiríní Béaloidis 25 - Midsummer

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