Vinna Bee - GRAY MARE (Mari Lwyd)

Описание: Gray Mare ( Marie Lwyd) A recent midwinter evening in the deep valleys of Glamorgan, Wales, with friends and loved ones drawn here to celebrate the festive season and the coming year using the old Celtic traditions. Folks telling wonderful tales and musical participation...
This is Vinna Bee with her very modern arrangement and interpretation, using the Marie Lwyd chant as the essence of this updated and modern version of a very old ancient traditional Welsh song.
Translated from Welsh language to English.

Filmed by Inga K. at the Queens Head Penycoedcae, Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales .
Edited by Inga K. Produced and directed By Sian Vinna Bevan (Clearwing Arts).
Available on "Quatre Femmes Records" as part of "Time to wrap up" ep.

http://www.folkwales.org.uk/mari.html

"Gray Mare ( Marie Lwyd) is a Welsh midwinter tradition, possibly to celebrate New Year although it formerly took place over a period stretching from Christmas to late January. It is a form of visiting wassail, a luck-bringing ritual in which the participants accompany a person disguised as a horse from house to house (including pubs) and sing at each door in the hope of gaining admittance and being rewarded with food and drink."