
Lackey and Sweeney - Good To Cry Hippies, VW camper van, autoharp, guitar, denim skirts, 1973 - what's not to like ? Sit on a floor cushion and have some barm-brack with that Earl Grey ! Billy Lackey and Kathleen Sweeney from "Junk Store Songs For Sale", a 1973 Village Thing LP which is afaik no longer available in any format I know nothing about them except (via google) that US guitarist Steve Waddington has one of their hand-made Appalachian Dulcimers.

AMAZING! bomb wave from - Happy Halloween! CRANK YOUR SPEAKERS - the SOUND WAVE IS UNBELIEVABLE!!! happy halloween! Halloween (or Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday observed on October 31, which commonly includes activities such as trick-or-treating, attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films. Historian Nicholas Rogers, exploring the origins of Halloween, notes that while "some folklorists have detected its origins in the Roman feast of Pomona, the goddess of fruits and seeds, or in the festival of the dead called Parentalia, it is more typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, whose original spelling was Samuin (pronounced sow-an or sow-in)".[1] The name is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end".[1] Snap-Apple Night (1832) by Daniel Maclise. Depicts apple bobbing and divination games at a Halloween party in Blarney, Ireland. The name 'Halloween' and many of its present-day traditions derive from the Old English era. The word Halloween is first attested in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All-Hallows-Even ("evening"), that is, the night before All Hallows Day.[4] Although the phrase All Hallows is found in Old English (ealra hālgena mæssedæg, mass-day of all saints), All-Hallows-Even is itself not attested until 1556. Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples (known as toffee apples outside ...

Smugglers Sessions Patty sings the Blues Patty sang a little gem of a "Blues" song last night, that suits her voice very well. I don't know the title, but as I have become a "Master Baker" lately & have just baked two excellent Irish Fruit Loaves for Halloween, I will call this song "The Barmbrack Blues", until Patty tells me differently.

Seamus O'Rourke sings COLCANNON at the Charley Farrelly Folk Club, Carrigallen April 2009 A brilliant rendition of this Irish ballad by Seamus O'Rourke in Charley Farrellys, Carrigallen, Co Leitrim in Ireland. Sung by Mary Black. If you know who wrote this song,we would like to credit him/her. For those who don't know, Colcannon is traditionally eaten in Ireland at Hallowe'en. Until quite recently this was a fast day, when no meat was eaten. The name is from the Gaelic: *cal ceann fhionn meaning white-headed cabbage. Colcannon should correctly be made with chopped kale (a member of the cabbage family) or green cabbage but it is also made with white cabbage. Colcannon at Hallowe'en used to contain a plain gold ring, a sixpence, a thimble or button: finding the ring meant marriage within the year for the person who found it, the sixpence meant wealth, the thimble spinsterhood and the button bachelorhood." A similar tradition with the 'barmbrack' Further info Others singing include: Jonathan Finnegan, Sean McIntyre, Ailish Connolly, Cathal Farrelly, Philip McIntyre & Bryan Mulligan. For those who'd like to join in with Seamus singing the chorus in the next Folf club (First Thurs of every month), , the lyric for 'Colcannon' now follows! Video and commentary by Tony Fahy Well, did you ever make colcannon, made with lovely pickled cream With the greens & scallions mingled like a pitcher in a dream Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the meltin' flake Or the creamy flavoured butter that our mother's used to make Chorus Oh you did, so you did so did ...

Rachel Gaffney's Barm Brack Traditional Irish Barm Brack made with Kerrygold butter & dried fruit soaked in cold Barry's Tea. What are the surprises inside ? - created at