Folk Connections

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Sam Sweeney has a great story to tell about his violin

Last night we went to see Sam Sweeney's show "live".
Of course, we may have been a bit influenced by the fact that the whole thing was held together by the superb Hugh Lupton.
However Paul Sartin and Robert Harbron (who has performed with Chris Wood in the past as part of the Englsh Acoustic Collective) are fine musicians too.

The show is atmospheric, sensitively done. The story is finely embroidered with the facts that Sam and his father have researched, and is one worth telling. That moment when Sam spotted the labels inside the violin and realised that he had bought a violin that looked brand new but for was in fact one hundred years old must have been an intense one. There was also some significance that it was, give a day or two, one hundred years to the day that the original maker of the parts, Richard Howard, lost his life. One of only 7 men to do so after a historic victory at Messines Ridge.

https://www.madeinthegreatwar.com/about

Only 2 more performances, and then I think they are retiring it.
The album is on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5I2Tc8S0edN1VONmXuq8oj

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Radio 2 Folk Award Winners, I think?

Possibly not for purists - it's very commercial and the use of keyboards is arguably a bit Capercaillie - but I rather like it!

Fara - Three Fishers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RzgeL9CeLE

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For those who have been watching the Jupiter moons from their ruling planet as I have been:

Sagittarius - The Song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozzb6H0K8eA

https://www.yogatech.com/Guru_Rattana_Blog/jupiter-and-sagittarius-and-the-evolution-of-consciousness/

I don't know my new neighbours well.

But the way in which they and the loan of their binoculars have recently mildly stepped in doesn't immediately suggest the suburban.

Mind you, he is a mysterious walker of few words and she is a very sensitive Australian.