Celebrating the Lads and Lassies of Celtic Music

Celtic music on winds, strings and voices! 

Songs of new love, forbidden love, and lost love, in rural Vermont settings rich in history and beauty! 

For Full Circle's Summer-Fall 2019 program, we highlighted Irish and Scottish songs and dances that have people's names in the titles.

Our first two performances of "Celebrate the Lads and Lassies" were at Grace Church in Sheldon and the Goodsell Preserve on Isle la Motte. 

Grace Church is famed for vibrant stain-glass windows, a glorious pipe organ, and a diverse summer music series. 

The Goodsell Ridge Preserve is famous for much older things: fossils!

Quarrying marble in the 19th and 20th centuries uncovered the imprints of scores of ancient sea creatures such as gastropods and cephalopods.

This National Natural Landmark has a new museum and education center, as well as a self-guided trail that takes visitors through the history of Earth itself.

Our songs and dances ranged from giddy to romantic to mournful. We added some silliness with a musical setting of Edward Lear's poem, The Owl and the Pussycat.

Susan and Mary Ann were the owl and the cat, Linda was the "piggy-wig" with a ring at the end of her nose, and Beth was the turkey who lived on the hill.  

Maeve provided the "light of the moon".

Full Circle has performed at Grace Church several times. The acoustics are wonderful! 

At both venues, we were given warm welcomes and introductions.

      Beth Crane at Grace Church

Linda Fitch at Goodsell

This was our first-ever performance at the Goodsell Ridge Preserve Barn, which was very recently renovated. 

 The tradition of summer music on Isle la Motte, however, is well-established. We've performed many times at the Fisk Farm summer concert series, just a short distance away. (For photos, click on this and this.)

To help us celebrate the lads and lassies of Celtic music, we played six sizes of recorders; two tin whistles; harp; dulcimer; guitar; various percussion instruments; and a ukelele.

The photo below shows Mary Ann's new great bass recorder with four bass recorders (two with bent head joints and two with the more traditional straight design). 

Here's a closer view of one of the newer basses.



In the poem, the owl and the pussycat "sang to a small guitar", so Beth played her ukelele!

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