Celtic Folk Music With A Difference!
David and Maceál visit Scouting Group “De Havik” in Ommen, the Netherlands.
We had a lovely dinner with “stamppot”: Potatoes, carrots, union and sausages.
We learned what scouts do on a day like this: making things from wood and rope, play games, run, run and run, sing songs around the campfire
And we got a nice cup of coffee made with electricity in stead of wood-fire..
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It’s a beautiful place. Also to take a stroll in the evening. Just for a night walk or whatever. And we got a beautiful sunset
So we are going fishing for trout
It’s been a long time since I’ve been fishing, about 20 – 30 years
When I don’t got nothing to do I come here Just for rest
Normally I don’t got nothing. I don’t even need bait. I don’t hook the fish up. But, if I’m hungry, then it’s trout alarm
Then I’m coming with my special bait. I fish with worms and fake bait
And when we catch something. What are we going to do with it? Going to eat it! You kill it, I grill it
We look like real fisher men. Specially William with the beard
When we say in German: “Petri heil”. Means “Good luck for fishing” in German
If children what to fish here they have to do a 2 days course. To learn how to fish and to remove a hook from a fish mouth. Because it can be very painful. And how to kill a fish as well. If you want to eat him. Otherwise you throw him back and let him free
Fishermen always telling stories about these things. What the best bait is and whatever. But believe me. There’s no best bait. And there’s no good fishermen. There’s just stupid fish who bites in the bait
We are very good for the animals. We’re not a threat for animals at all. Maybe we will be vegetarians some day. We never catch animals. Vegetarians are only bad hunters
We talk about our new album, how we first met, the festivals he is going to and streaming from and more..
Continue reading “Alex from CeltCast.com in Rapalje Show 87”
In this video you will see one of the last edits I did for the Dominican Republic We met our good friends, the musicians, from the band that performed, at our table and on all the tables from all the people who where eating there. We met them a couple of nights before because we did a session, played together on the beach
I found some other “gems”. Also did a very special edit I was waiting for because it was so much work to get it all synchronized. You will see this in the end and there’s a special treat for our patrons as well
On our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/rapalje_celtic_folk_music , you can also see and hear all the extra musicians and extra party and things we are doing on our tour in the Dominican Republic And this is an edit from all the places we performed this song “Galway Girl”
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It takes two to get together
It takes time to make it last
We’ll all end up in some way
Like the drink in last night’s glass
But we’ll take this chance together
Lets not think about the end
Never mind the strangers
‘Cos I’ll always be your friend
Until the end
We’ve crossed the sea together
We’ve had our ups and downs
We’ve gone further than we’ve ever dreamed
From our county Galway home
If we’re up on top tomorrow
Or if it all just ends
Never mind the strangers
‘Cos I’ll always be your friend
Until the end
It has’nt all been easy
But sure that’s the way it is
We’ve been shaken, rocked and rattled
Taken jabs and body blows
There’s a strenght in being together
Like a steel bar that won’t bend
Never mind the strangers
‘Cos I’ll always be your friend
Until the end
Even now it’s hard to think back
When did it all begin
Was it some night drinking in Gay Brownes pub
Every soul is welcomed in
On this fine summers evening
As the blue of night descends
Never mind the strangers
‘Cos I’ll always be your friend
Until the end
We’ve seen the other side of life
And no been too impressed
It does’nt beat a day at home
If you put it to the test
But at least we took the challenge
We did’nt just pretend
Never mind the strangers
‘Cos I’ll always
Always be your friend
Until the end
Continue reading “Video: Never Mind the Strangers @ Castlefest”
Imagine yourself in a completely different world at Castlefest,
the Fantasy festival of the Netherlands. A fest for young and old, where, as soon as you enter the gates, you find yourself in the Other World. Castlefest is a total experience with lots of music, fantasy writers, themed catering, medieval crafts and a large market which offers everything a fantasy fan is looking for.
A large amount of bands are performing at the various festival stages, from Pagan Folk to World Music, from Medieval Rock to Indie. In short, for each music lover his own!
Castlefest characterizes itself by a unique ambiance. This makes that regular visitors are looking forward to the next edition a year in advance. It creates a feeling where you find yourself in a completely different world, causing a daze and homesickness for weeks after the event took place.
The Castlefest-feeling is difficult to define, but something everyone needs to experience themselves…
Continue reading “Video: Home is where my friends are at Castlefest in the Netherlands!”
The craic, pronounced crack, refers to the laughter and banter that goes with having a good night out with friends. If the craic was 90 it means it was exceptionally good and you were having the time of your life!
The phrase became well known from the late sixties onwards because of the song, The Craic was 90 in the Isle of Man..
In the end of this video, we of course want to hear a song from William performing on the guitar.
First, talk about Patreon because that’s something that’s really important to get the technic going. Now, I want to talk with you about the way to thank you for being a patron, depending on the money you will spend. We have to think about the goodies. When you spend one dollar a month, of course, you get all your names in the credits, and because it’s every month, there’s a really nice system on Patreon that I can see who was the patron from last month who paid for it and who was there. And it’s very easy for me to make the list and put it on every new CD we make in that month because we’re going to make some CDs.
The one we are giving away for whatever you want to pay for it is almost gone. – Yeah, we’ll make a new one. We need some ideas as a little gift for your donation on Patreon, like a CD with an autogram or a special live stream, but we also had the idea to do a song recorded in the air in a balloon, a special place we think they never will play there.
And we talk about the Cornwall thing.
We’re going to talk about Zomerfolk because I did a lot of live streams on Facebook where I was showing you the build up of the Rapalje Zomerfolk Festival in Stadspark, Groingen
With Franca, Dieb and William on the electric scooter around on the celtic music festival..
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