#Ewan MacColl

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Looove listening to old folk music. Firstly because it fucks secondly because it slays thirdly because you can read up on all the artists and find out that these bitches led absolutly apeshit lives. Thank you Folk Revival

#folk #folk revival #vashti bunyan #ewan maccoll #peggy seeger #connie converse #shirley collins

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Folk musicians Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl play together at home, 1960s

#peggy seeger #ewan maccoll #folk #folk music #folk singers #folk revival

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#shane macgowan #the pogues #ewan maccoll #dirty old town #posters

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1984 – Death of Luke Kelly, lead vocalist and 5-string banjo member of the Dubliners.

Luke Kelly was a singer and folk musician from Dublin, most famous as a member of the band ‘The Dubliners’. Indeed, while Luke often sang of the poor, the oppressed, the worker, the lover or the rebel –the realities of his own life and upbringing enlivened and gave weight to his songs and the emotional way in which he sang them. And his own childhood and youth was anything but privileged. Born on…

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#Barney McKenna #Ciaran Bourke #Dublin #Dublin City Council #Ewan MacColl #History of Ireland #Ireland #Irish History #John Sheahan #Luke Kelly #Merrion Row #O&039;Donoghue&039;s Pub #On Raglan Road #Patrick Kavanagh #Phil Coulter #Ronnie Drew #Scorn Not His Simplicity #The Dubliners #The Fureys

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#mojo #mojo magazine #anne briggs #cecil sharp house #ewan maccoll #peggy seeger #martin carthy #ray fisher #a.l. lloyd #johnny moynihan

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Bettye LaVette  Dirty Old Town (Slow Version)

#ewan maccoll

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In 1972 Roberta Flack won a Song of the Year Grammy for her recording of “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face”, but the song was actually written—in 1957—by British folk singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl for a young American girl he had met, Peggy Seeger. MacColl and Seeger subsequently married, and remained married until MacColl died in 1989. Here—in 2023—Seeger performs the song written for her over 65 years ago.

#peggy seeger #ewan maccoll

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Ewan McColl, Tam Lin

Day 24 is another a cappella retelling. This one is sung in Scots English, which I appreciate. Enjoy!

#ewan maccoll #retellings #music #31 days of retellings #day 24 #the balllad of tam lin

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#dirty old town #the pogues #irish #celtic punk #shane macgowan #folk punk #rum sodomy & the lash #new wave #stiff records #mca records #elvis costello #ewan maccoll #Spotify

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It is time for all of us to rise and vote for our man! We have so much thanks for Ewan McGregor always saying he would happily return to play as Obi-wan Kenobi and did just that and SO MUCH MORE so go vote for him! 😊😇

#obikin #anakin #star wars #anakin skywalker #obi wan x padawan #obiwan kenobi #obi wan kenobi #disney #revenge of the sith #sw kenobi #kenobi series #ewan maccoll #ewanfuckinmcgregor #disney plus #award shows #kids choice awards #nickelodeon #jedi #jedi master #best actor #best tv shows #kenobi tv

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The Manchester Rambler. - Ewan MacColl

#ewan maccoll #Mountains #communization #Digital Art #ilustration #procreate #ilustradoraschilenas #alpinism

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“The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” originally written for Peggy Seeger by Ewan MacColl in 1957, is considered one of the greatest love ballads of the twentieth century.

In 1962, Peggy released a recording of the song on her and Ewan’s Folkways LP The New Briton Gazette, Vol. 2. It has been recorded by a number of artists over the years including Roberta Flack, whose version became a breakout international hit in 1972, winning Grammy Awards for Record of the Year and Song of the Year.

Peggy has recorded the song multiple times throughout her career, with a 1983 version appearing on her album Folkways Years: 1955-1992: Songs of Love and Politics. Her most recent rendition was released last year, prompting her to reflect:

“I’ve had two life partners, one male and one female, and I have three children and nine grandchildren. I’ve come to realise that the lyrics can be interpreted in so many ways. Ewan wrote the tune to mimic the heartbeat of someone wildly in love and I used to feel like a soaring bird when I sang this song. Now I’m grounded within it and that makes me happy.”

Learn more: s.si.edu/3UCFMiP

Photo of Peggy Seeger courtesy of the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution

#peggy seeger #ewan maccoll #folk music #relationships #folkways #smithsonian

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#OTD in 1958 – The Springhill Mine bump | An underground earthquake traps 174 miners in the No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, the deepest coal mine in North America at the time.

By November 1, rescuers from around the world had dug out 100 of the victims, marking the death toll at 74. “The Ballad of Springhill” was composed by American folksinger Peggy Seeger and English folksinger Ewan MacColl about the 1958 disaster. The song has been performed by many, including, Irish folk singer Luke Kelly. ‘The Ballad of Springhill’ (Peggy Seeger/Ewan MacColl) In the town of…

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#Canada #Ewan MacColl #Luke Kelly #Nova Scotia #Peggy Seeger #Springhill #Springhill Mining Disaster #The Ballad of Springhill #The Dubliners #The Springhill Mine bump

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The first time ever I saw your face

I thought the sun rose in your eyes

And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave

To the dark and the endless skies, my love

To the dark and the endless skies

#spotify #music #peggy seeger #roberta flack #play misty for me #erroll garner #ewan maccoll

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When I tell you that I am into "folk music" this is what I usually mean:

#ewan maccoll #folk music #scottish folk music #working class #peggy seeger

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♫ First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ♫ (Redux)

♫ First Time Ever I Saw Your Face ♫ (Redux)

Being really exhausted tonight, I was seeking inspiration for a song to post and decided to check out what the number one hits were 50 years ago, way back in 1972.  A lot of good ones came up, but when I saw that this one was in the #1 slot from April 22 through May 13 of 1972, and remembering how much I love this song, I decided to redux this one tonight. This was the breakout hit for Roberta…

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#Ewan MacColl #music trivia #Peggy Seeger #Roberta Flack