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Video: Brazil Tour part 1 – The journey to the first (unofficial) concert – Rapalje Show 20
We were on tour in Brazil and we flew with an airplane eight times in seven days to do three shows in a row!
Video: Thank you for your presents at Zomerfolk – Rapalje Show 19
In this video I’d like to show you what we got in our hat during the last show on Sunday at the Rapalje Zomerfolk Festival in Groningen.
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Video: Do you want to know what’s under the Scotsman’s Kilt?
Under the Scotsman’s Kilt
A Scotsman clad in kilt left the bar one evening fair
And one could tell by how he walked he’d drunk more
than his share
He tumbled on until he could no longer keep his feet
he stumbled off into the grass to sleep beside the
street.
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Video: Preparing for our Tour in Brazil – Rapalje Show 18
Welcome to another Rapalje Show and this time we’re going to prepare to go to Brazil on tour. Also in this video: We take you backstage at out theater show ‘Folk and Roll Journey’. And like in the last Rapalje shows we have another piece of interview from Sean Cannon from the Dublin Legends. The T-shirt is from Heiderock Festival in Germany
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Video: The Kid on the Mountain with Irish hardshoe dance @ Balver Höhle
Rapalje performs The Kid on the Mountain slip jig with Irish hardshoe dance for Noor and Jarno at Balver Hoehle (Höhle)
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Video: William adds another piece to the puzzle – Rapalje Show 17
William is adding another piece to the recording puzzle for our new album. The interview with Sean Cannon from the Dublin Legends continues. And I show you around at the Rapalje Zomerfolk Festival until the gates open. While I’m wearing a T-shirt from the band Scotch
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Video: Home is where my friends are @ Balver Höhle
Home Is Where My Friends Are – Pride of Petravore by Rapalje celtic folk music: I’d like to introduce you to the band that’s playing. Song written by William from Rapalje
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Video: With a nightliner from Groningen NL to Maulbronn DE and back – Rapalje Show #16
We have some new topics in this video like an interview with Sean Cannon from the Dublin Legends (The Dubliners). And I show you how we managed to perform at a concert in the south of Germany at the Klosterfest in Maulbronn on friday with a nightliner when we were organizing the Zomerfolk festival in a north of the Netherlands. Where we had to perform at saturday!
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Now on YouTube: Star of the County Down – Irish Folk & Celtic Music Balver Höhle
“Star of the County Down” is an Irish ballad set near Banbridge in County Down, in Northern Ireland. The words are by Cathal McGarvey (1866–1927) from Ramelton, County Donegal.The tune is similar to several other works, especially that of the English “Dives and Lazarus”, also called “Kingsfold”, well known from several popular hymns.
The melody was also used in an Irish folk song called “My Love Nell”.
The lyrics of “My Love Nell” tell the story of a young man who courts a girl but loses her when she emigrates to America.The only real similarity with “Star of the County Down” is that Nell too comes from County Down. This may have inspired McGarvey to place the heroine of his new song in Down as well. McGarvey was from Donegal.
“The Star of the County Down” uses a tight rhyme scheme. Each stanza is a double quatrain, and the first and third lines of each quatrain have an internal rhyme on the second and fourth feet: [aa]b[cc]b. The refrain is a single quatrain with the same rhyming pattern.
The song is sung from the point of view of a young man who chances to meet a charming lady by the name of Rose (or Rosie) McCann, referred to as the “star of the County Down”. From a brief encounter the writer’s infatuation grows until, by the end of the ballad, he imagines wedding the girl.
The song usually begins with the opening verse:
Near Banbridge town, in the County Down, one morning last July
Down a bóithrín green came a sweet cailín,
And she smiled as she passed me by
(Wikipedia)
Rapalje is performing “Ride On” at The Balver Höhle: The Balve Cave is the biggest cultural cave in Europe. It is located in Balve, Germany. And every year the Festspiele Balver Höhle organization is presenting the Balver Höhle Irish folk & Celtic Music Festival.
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