Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Scottish Beat Burning Man Wolf Song
Thanks to Wendy Babiak for telling me about this link to Scottish drummers and pipers at the Edinburgh Festival. The more I learn about the world, the clearer it seems that we are all so closely linked physiologically, artistically, psychologically. Meanwhile, I've been thinking about the connections between meter, rhythm, wicca, and shamanism while developing ideas for a workshop on Spell Rhythm for the upcoming Burning Man Festival. And listening to the incredible music for the Wolf Song play, the rhythms of the instruments, singers' voices, and dancers' feet bringing my words to life as if had always been meant to be heard that way...
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Fabulous link to a wild group! I loved it! You know what's amazing? Is how some of the folks standing watching could stand still with their arms crossed? Where are THEY from?!!
Oh, and the first tune the bagpiper played is one of my favorites: She Moved Through the Fair.
A Scottish "spell" used to be called a Fi Faw (spelling phonetically here)...and I think that might be where Fe Fi Fo Fum comes from....
Jane Galer
That is awesome about Fi Faw! Of course!!!! And I was just hearing about Giants the other day...I bet there's a lot more there than I've realized before. Thanks Jane.
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