The Rowan Tree by Andy Roberts at Loughton Folk Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro1ZUpdy3Iw
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Embedding Videos from Facebook
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If your video camera operator (thanks to Linda) has turned their apparatus sideways, the resulting portrait styled video works better uploaded to facebook and embedded than it does on youTube. As discovered over on http://andyroberts.me/havering-folk-club/the-rowan-tree-song-at-haverfolk-for-cloudstreet-guest-night
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May 18 2012, 1:00am | Comments »
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The Rowan Tree Song at Haverfolk for Cloudstreet Guest Night
Another floor spot, this time for a fabulous night out with Cloudstreet as the Guest Artists at Haverfolk. Cloudstreet are an Australian Folk couple who combine beautiful harmony singing with clever instrumentation, all very well rehearsed and slickly executed. Right from the start when the sang “The Broar And The Rose” It became one occasion when I could just sit back and appreciate the lovely music with a big smile on my face. For my one song, I considered going along with the Australian theme and playing Mondura Dam but in the decided to go along with what I had planned which was to fill in the song missing from Loughton last month, The Rowan Tree
May 18 2012, 12:47am | Comments »
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Poscast #51 is Haverfolk #3
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This is the third in a series of low-fi podcasts put together from the audio backup recordings made during the Andy Roberts night at Haverfolk on January 25th 2012. Podcast #51 comprises of the first half of set two, after the break, so here are the shownotes, the setlist: Here is the download podcast link, file details show notes and set list for podcast number 51: Subscribe to the podcast RSS or get it from iTunes Download MP3 to save – 32.85 Mb in size, playtime 23 minutes 52 seconds :- 51 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 51.mp3 Andy Roberts Podcast #51 Shownotes Show Notes for Podcast 51
Back In The Field Cormorants Underneath London Bridge Yellow Boat The Rowan Tree The Last Nail
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May 12 2012, 11:39am | Comments »
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The Rowan Tree http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjGwH_Hn3PA The Rowan Tree – Andy Roberts folk song at Haverfolk
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Rowan Tree
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Acoustic Guitar Podcasts: Episode #19
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Episode #19 in Andy Roberts series of acoustic guitar podcasts was recorded on Tuesday 9th November 2011 and published today on the 10th. Inspired by friends’ lists of 15 songwriters tagged and copied in Facebook, I played songs by Neil Diamond, Steve Tilston, Andy Roberts, Loudon Wainwright and a bonus track Roy Harper song at the start of which there’s an unfortunate inbound telephone ringtone but I didn’t let that faze me at all, oh no. If you do happen to be listening on an iphone or in a house then the effect could be unpredictable. Here’s the stuff:
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“I’m a Believer” – by Neil Diamond “One Man Band” – Music and lyrics by Steve Tilston “The Rowan Tree” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts
“Samson and the Warden” – Music and lyrics by Loudon Wainwright “Migration” – Music and lyrics by Andy Roberts “I’ll See You Again” – Music and lyrics by Roy Harper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB-DaONDUQs acoustic guitar podcasts
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Episode 5 Andy Roberts Folk Music Podcast
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Episode 5 of the weekly podcast series features 6 acoustic songs with more of a traditional folk music feel to them. Four are my own compositions written in a way that harks back to the traditional English folk song, or maybe British in some cases. It used to be a bit of joke to to an introduction long the lines of “This is a traditional song that I wrote” as if that is such a fake thing to do but these days it’s become more normal thanks to the efforts of folk singers such as Kate Rusby, Tom Bliss and many others brought up in the traditional scene for whom its natural to write songs in that style. The rest of my songs would need be described as “Contemporary Folk” which probably means they sound like they were written in the 1970s, and some of them were… Anyway, here is the podcast player and download link followed by this week’s show notes
Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed using the url http://andyroberts.me/?feed=podcast Subscribe in iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/andy-roberts/id378470885 You can also download the MP3 audio file which is 23.8Mb in size and 25 minutes 40 seconds in duration from this link 05 Andy Roberts Podcast Episode 5.mp3 There’s also a stored video file from the live broadcast over at Ustream.tv where the podcasting event takes place on Tuesdays at 7.00pm UK time Video Podcast Episode No 5 Podcast Episode 5 Show Notes Show notes and information for Podcast Episode 5 published on August 4th 2010. All songs performed with the six string Ibanez acoustic guitar
Sitting on top of the World – by Andy Roberts The Wreckers’ Prayer – by Andy Roberts The Rowan Tree – by Andy Roberts Captain Coulston – Traditional / Steeleye Span Cajun Cooking Music – by Andy Roberts Old Paint - Traditional
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The Rowan Tree – Andy Roberts Folk Song
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Rowan Tree Folk Song
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The little wild rowan tree (sorbus aucuparia) in my front garden is looking great at this time of year, although half the berries are gone already thanks to hungry blackbirds. I planted it there about ten years ago, and it’s taken its time to grow upwards in the shadow of a great big sycamore, but in the last two years it has managed to get itself firmly established and is turning into a mature specimen tree. I was told that its not uncommon for people in Scotland to plant rowan trees in front of houses, partly from sentimental attachment to the wild Scottish countryside, and also to help keep the witches away. I didn’t know anything about that at the time, but it does seem to have worked.
Rowan Tree Song So I wrote my song about the rowan tree, whilst I was in Scotland as it happens, and then worked on the music and finishing off back home. Motivated by the approach of Halloween, which tends to get celebrated at Havering Folk Club, I’ve tried it out twice now, once at the regular Tuesday Evening 7.00pm webcast and once at the folk club last night, where it was encouragingly well received. There’s no video from the session last night, but the early prototype from the webcast is embedded below, followed by some form of the lyrics. Sometimes called the mountain ash, this is a native rowan tree, not a cultivar, and the berries glow a light red colour in the autumn sunlight, making for welcome food for blackbirds and thrushes, although they always leave the more difficult bunches at the end of delicate branches until last, due to the danger of falling off.
Lyrics of The Rowan Tree
Lyrics to “The Rowan Tree”, a folk song by Andy Roberts Come hear my story, it’s a tale of four witches but I could have added three more And heed my advice if you’re troubled by witches Just plant a Rowan tree outside your front door And the branches sway in the faintest of breezes the berries are red bright and fair. And I’ve not had much trouble with those witchee witches Not since I planted my Rowan tree there Well the Witch of the West was cunning and sly She had me always on the run And I never knew which way her nose was pointing Not until after she’d been there and gone. And the branch tips dance…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the East was just counting the years and somehow that three became five. Then her time was up and she vanished away Now nobody knows if she’s dead or alive. And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the South was trouble from the start Her fancy was playing with fire The anger rose up as the coals glowed white and the smoke billowed higher and higher And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there The Witch of the North is not like the rest She uses her powers for good As the Rowan tree watches and nods in approval and keeps us both safe from the dark witchee wood And the branches sway…. planted my Rowan tree there So that was my story the tale of four witches I could have mentioned three more Now heed my advice if you’re troubled by witches Just plant a rowan tree outside your front door And the branch tips dance in the faintest of breezes The berries are red, bright and fair. I’ve not had much trouble with those witchee witches Not since I planted my rowan tree there.
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The Rowan Tree - Andy Roberts Folk Song
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Andy Roberts Webcasts
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Andy Roberts Tuesday Webcasts Andy Roberts does a weekly music webcast on a Tuesday Evening at 7.00pm UK time, every week. The idea behind this is to build up a regular discipline of performance, with a sense of audience including online interactions, to have fun, to rehearse songs which may be performed at Havering Folk Club on a Wednesday or elsewhere, and to document examples from the repertoire for the Andy Roberts Music youTube channel. OK, so if you want to listen in and maybe join the live real time conversation on a Tuesday evening then all you have to do is get yourself over to ustream.tv and the Andy Roberts Music channel You don’t have to log in just to listen, but if you do then you can join in the banter, be seen, and even make requests which stand a good chance of being granted.
Tuesday 29th September Andy Roberts Show There should be a written report appearing here on the AndyRoberts.ME blog within a few days of each show, which might include embedded video from either the YouTube Channle or the Ustream saved videos, whichever is most appropriate at the time. So for example, on Tuesday 29th September we had a fun time with a session that lasted overall for nearly an hour including two new songs for the webcast, one of which was only recenty written by Andy Roberts, and the premier also of a new instrument the Saz. Here are some of the highlights from the Andy Roberts webcast show earlier this evening then: Home – Andy Roberts plays Roy Harper There’s usually a Roy Harper song each week and this week it was “Home”, which is perhapas not one of Roy’s best ever compositions but it’s kind of funky to rock to sometimes. This take didn’t make it to youTube.
Motel Blues – Andy Roberts plays Loudon Wainwright Motel Blues was one of Loudon Wainwright’s most popular songs at the time of Album 2 and it was one of the first performed live by Andy Roberts outside of the New Folk Cottage in Truro. It hasn’t seen the light of day at Havering Folk Club yet for some reason, but has featured in the Tuesday webcast before now.Deep River Blues Another first, in which Andy Roberts has a go at playing the delta blues classic “Deep River Blues” learned by ear from having heard Wizz Jones sing it somewhere. Check out some of teh other versions of this song on YouTube, especially Leo Kotke and Doc Watson.
Andy Roberts Plays The SAZ At last, after months of messing about Andy finally gets his Turkish SAZ back in tune and plays some of the improvised tunes developed for the instrument. The Saz has seven strings arranged into three groups.
New Andy Roberts Song : The Rowan Tree Here it is, the new song by Andy Roberts which is called “The Rowan Tree” and tells the tale of four witches.
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