Tag: celtic folk
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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One more Folk ‘n’ Roll this year!
The 29th of July, Nijverdal NL, our last Folk ‘n’ Roll show this year, but we will be back with Folk ‘n’ Roll in 2018!
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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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Video: Ride On – Irish Folk & Celtic Music Balver Höhle
This Irish ballad song Ride On is written Jimmy McCarthy and sung by many artists like Christy Moore, Cruachan, Celtic Woman, Celtic Thunder and many others.
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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See you at a festival soon!
This week we play at Heiderock Seevetal (DE) and after that lots of festivals in Europe!
Into Folk – the first Rapalje album
The first proper Rapalje album. After the first two mini CDs „Celts in Kilts“ and „Rakish Paddy“ in cardboard covers, in 1998 Rapalje finally released a complete album with all lyrics and musical notes in a beautiful booklet. The pictures weer taken at the archeological themepark “Archeon” in Alphen aan den Rijn, NL.
This cd can also be bought in our Webshop.
Video: William shows how a guitar becomes a gitouki – Rapalje show #15
In this video William shows how Maceál changed, modified and ruined a perfectly fine guitar and it becomes a gitouki.
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Video: Poyenberg Irish Folk Open Air – Enjoy!
Thank you Poyenberg for the phantastic Irish Folk Open Air! I was amazing as always and we thank the Audience, organization, bands, technicians and crew!
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