Two more live videos from Australia

This one is the final song of the Spiral Dance set – the classic Burning Times. We had no rehearsal for this song, but I reckon it still rocks.

And another view of their version of Spirit of Albion.

It’s good to be back in the UK, but man [...]

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Some videos of my Australian concerts

From the Druid’s Dreaming

From The Singing Gallery with Spiral Dance

Pipes of Pan from The Singing Gallery

Wild Mountain Thyme from The Singing Gallery

The Ransom Video, but I escaped…

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Spiral Dancing at the Singing Gallery

About a year ago I was contacted by an Australian Pagan folk band called Spiral Dance who wanted to cover my song Spirit of Albion. I was very touched that they’d even asked and of course said yes and asked if they’d send me a copy if they ever recorded it. A year later I’m [...]

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Tales from the Road – Serpents in Shrophire!

So it was that on the 10th October Cerri and I once more made our way around the M25 and headed northwards, this time towards Clee Hill in Shropshire to play at the third Serpent Festival. Clee Hill is famous for its association with serpents, so it was no surprise that, as well as musicians, [...]

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Let’s catch up! More from Prague and Vienna

Almost a month since I posted on the blog! I’ve had my head deep in recording mode – recording the last few songs, laying down the parts from the guest musicians, then mixing, and mastering, the new CD. I’ll post separately about that another time, but first let’s catch up on what’s been happening in [...]

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Tales from the Road – Prague 2009

About 4 years ago at one of the Anderida Gorsedd open rituals at the Long Man of Wilmington I was approached by a young man called Eurik from the Czech Republic who asked if I was Damh the Bard. I nodded and he took me by the hand, shaking it vigorously and exclaiming that “your [...]

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Tales from the Road – To Mercia!

Last weekend me and Cerri went to the Mercian Gathering near Coventry. I had a gig on the Friday night, and Cerri had the opportunity to have a stall outside our tent where she could sell some of her artwork. Last year I had strained my back so barely made it up there to play [...]

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Tales from the Road – Pagancon Glasgow

Last weekend me and Cerri travelled to Glasgow to play a concert at Pagancon. It was my first concert in Scotland for 6 years and one I was really looking forward to. The last time I played there Pagancon was called Druidcon and was a Druid-specific conference, but to help broaden its appeal they changed [...]

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Three Live Videos from the OBOD Summer Gathering 2009

As the title says, here are three live videos from the OBOD Summer Gathering. The first is Hills they are Hollow, followed by Lughnasadh Dance, and lastly the encore of Chuck Berry’s Johnny B Goode. What a great night it was!

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Playing Catchup – Tales from the Road – The Arena House Concert

It’s been some time since I posted a proper blog entry. I’ve been so busy playing music, recording, and writing that The Bardic Blog lay sad and neglected for which I apologise. Another reason is that I’ve been posting updates and photos to my Twitter account as things have happened, so it feels like I’ve [...]

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