Cool Britannia is toast. Merrie England has taken over. The signs are everywhere, not just on the village green and in Ye Olde Timbered Inn, way out in the sticks. At the Brits, the all-girl Boss Morris troupe of Morris Dancers accompanied Grammy-winning indie band Wet Leg in mini-dresses. Up and down the land, nearly 14,000 other Morris dancers cavort most weekends with energy and abandon. Countless #wassails are being held. There are riotous “Jack in the Green” spring parades. Mummers plays tour villages. Plough pudding, heavy with suet and sausage meat feature on the Sainsbury’s website. English Heritage, the charity that manages more than 400 historic sites to bring “the story of England to life”, has more paid members today than at any time in its history. A weighty 530-page tome on Morris dance was published on March 30. And the UK recently got its first exhibition of local folk costume. via The New European https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/folk-traditions-are-back-with-bells-on/
#wassails
the Lions part will celebrate Twelfth Night tomorrow.
On the #Bankside, outside #shakespearesglobe
A #traditional #twelfthnight with #mumming, #wassailing, #music & #dance
I will be a #WhiteBear playing the #violin
Do join us!
#wassail #wassails #mummers #ragcoat #elizabethancostume #folk #folkmusic #traditionalmusic #beelzebub #OldOss #FolkTraditions #StGeorge #MummersPlay #holly #Ivy #OldChristmas #earlymoderndrama #folkplay
Old Christmas Returned: #Christmas celebrated, banned & restored in #17thCentury Britain.
A selection of #carols, #songs, #rounds, #wassails, #ballads from the time of the #EnglishCivilWar, the #Interregnum & the #Restoration.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano, bass #viol
Richard de Winter: #tenor
Robin Jeffrey: #lute #cittern #guitar
Alison Kinder: #viols, #recorders
Tamsin Lewis: #renaissance #violin, #alto, viols
Richard Mackenzie: lute #theorbo
Peter WIllcock: #bass
https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/old-christmas-returned