Right Wantonly A-Mumming, by Sharron Kraus & Friends

Right Wantonly A-Mumming

by Sharron Kraus & Friends

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Kahinat Beautiful seasonal album, where spring meets with the autumn and summer with cold winter. Favorite track: Wedding Song.

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1.	Wake Up, Sleepers 05:16	buy track
2.	Dargason 01:48	buy track
3.	Welcome Joyful Spring 02:40	buy track
4.	Come Let Us All A-Maying Go 01:43	buy track
5.	May Song 03:58	buy track
6.	Wedding Song 04:06	buy track
7.	Midsummer 03:18	buy track
8.	The Hawthorn Tree 03:24	buy track
9.	Barleycorn 01:03	buy track
10.	Harvest Time 02:39	buy track
11.	Bacca Pipes 01:07	buy track
12.	All Hallows 04:10	buy track
13.	Sun and Rose 03:28	buy track
14.	To Shorten Winter's Sadness 04:00	buy track

about

This album was written over the course of a year, starting at midsummer 2005. My aim was to create songs that could be sung to celebrate the seasons and mark the turning points of the year; songs with choruses that were easy to pick up and that would sit comfortably alongside traditional wassailing songs, carols and May songs.

Each song was written in its season: at midsummer I awoke at dawn, climbed a hill and looked out over Oxfordshire and imagined the battle between summer and winter; at midwinter I made holly wreaths, wrapped up warm and went for brisk wintery walks and then huddled in a warm pub with my favourite traditional singers, sang ‘To Shorten Winter’s Sadness’ for the first time and was rewarded with a rousing chorus.

As well as using the changing seasons as direct inspiration, I researched folklore associated with the different seasons. Useful sources were Christina Hole’s books on British folk customs, George Long’s The Folklore Calendar, and J.G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough. Musically The Watersons’ Frost and Fire and For Pence and Spicy Ale were touchstones and William Chappell’s Popular Music of the Olden Time was a fount of information.

Following and marking the seasons was important to rural communities whose lives depended on a good harvest. I believe that it’s just as important for us to do the same: to rejoice when spring comes each year; to be thankful for ‘good harvests’, whatever form they take; to confront death and the return of winter, and to take comfort in each other’s company through the cold months. I hope that these songs will be sung by folk singers in sessions and folk clubs, around bonfires at midsummer gatherings, by choirs, by ramblers and anyone who takes joy in nature.

Sharron Kraus
Oxford 2006

credits

released June 20, 2007

All songs written by Sharron Kraus except 2, 4, 8, 9, 11 trad. arr. Sharron Kraus.

Recorded by Dave Eynstone and Sharron Kraus.
Mixed by Dave Eynstone, Michael Tanner and Sharron Kraus.

Sharron Kraus: vocals, whistles, percussion, etc.
Jon Boden: vocals, fiddle
Ian Giles: vocals, bass drum
Fay Hield: vocals
Graham Metcalfe: vocals
Claire Lloyd: vocals
John Spiers: melodeons, concertina
Ian Woods: vocals

With
Giles Lewin: Crumhorn on 3
Michael Tanner: Glockenspiel on 4

Originally released on CD on Bo'Weavil Recordings.

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about

Sharron Kraus Oxford, UK

Musical collaborator / songwriter / improviser.
'Pagan radiophonica meets medieval balladry’
'sensual spellcraft’
'Floating freaky fun of the highest order'
'oddly comforting avant-garde masterpiece'
Labels: Sunstone, Ghost Box, Clay Pipe, Feeding Tube, Cardinal Fuzz, Second Language ... more

discography

Birdloom

Mar 2023
K I N

Oct 2022
Swift Wings

May 2022
Welcome to Punkie Night

Oct 2021
Intermission

May 2020
Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers - second pressing

Aug 2019
Chanctonbury Rings

Jun 2019
Something Out of Nothing 7"

Sep 2018
Joy's Reflection is Sorrow

Jun 2018
Time Takes Away

Jul 2016
If You Put Out Your Hand

Apr 2016
Hen Llan Recordings

Feb 2016
Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers

May 2015
Silver Servants

Jul 2014
Winter Songs / Caneuon y Gaeaf

Nov 2013
Music and Migration III

Sep 2013
Night Mare

Aug 2013
Pilgrim Chants & Pastoral Trails

Aug 2013
Yesterday Perhaps: Songs of the Kitchen Cynics

Jan 2013
Folk Songs II

Aug 2012
New Music for Old Instruments

Jan 2012
In the Rheidol Valley

Mar 2011
The Devil in Love: A Soundtrack to the 1772 Occult Novel

Jan 2011
The Woody Nightshade

Nov 2010
Rusalnaia Tour CD

Sep 2008
The Fox's Wedding

Mar 2008
Rusalnaia

Jan 2008
Travellers Two

Jan 2008
John Barleycorn Reborn

Aug 2007
Right Wantonly A-Mumming

Jun 2007
Singing At the Moon

Nov 2006
Leaves From Off the Tree

Oct 2006
Imaginational Anthems Volume 2

Jun 2006
The Black Dove

Mar 2006
The Honeymoon Music Compilation

May 2005
Songs for the Twins

Jan 2005
A Houseguest's Wish: Translations of Wire's Outdoor Miner

Nov 2004
Songs of Love and Loss

Mar 2004
Yuletide

Jan 2003
Beautiful Twisted

Mar 2002

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