Daniel Kelly Music

It's 26 days until Halloween! I wasn't allowed to watch Ghostbusters as a kid, but I did buy a game for my Amstrad CPC 464 computer so got a general idea of what the other kids were talking about. Apparently Ray Parker Jr. wrote this in a few days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters_(song) #halloween #spookulele #ghostbusters Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

It's 27 days until Halloween! I asked the Filk community what Halloween themed songs I could do, and they suggested this one by Cat Faber. Performed here by Echo's Children (Cat Faber and Callie Hills): https://echoschildren.bandcamp.com/album/as-good-as-any #halloween #filk #spookulele Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

It's 28 days until Halloween! This is one of the most grim Child Ballads, #93: https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch093.htm #halloween Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

29 days until Halloween! This one was written by Andrew Gold and published in 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spooky%2C_Scary_Skeletons Some great skeleton footage in this version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjk5nrb_lI #halloween Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I think I first heard this song when the Dixie Chooks came to Yass for our festival in 2018, but I heard it again each of the past two weekends. I assumed it was a well-known pop anthem from the 1970s, but this week I found out that it is actually an original song by Wendy Ealey of the Dixie Chooks. My rough approximation here doesn't come close to the majestic nature of the Chooks performance, I encourage you to see Wendy and Moira live if you ever get the chance. You can listen to them here on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/081NKwKyF2JahH69ehCNwy Their website here: https://www.dixiechooks.com/ Photos are from my weekend at the fabulous Folk by the Sea festival in Kiama.

It's 30 days until Halloween! Lets see if I can do 30 #Ukulele songs on the Halloween theme. This one, from 1962, is by Bobby Picket and Leonard Capizzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Mash #halloween Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I've just come back from a second folk festival weekend, at Folk by the Sea in Kiama. What a fabulous little festival by the sea! I uploaded a recording of the concert that Songbrother gave at the Yass Irish and Celtic Festival the previous weekend and immediately the broken YouTube copyright bots claimed the video for this song as owned by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Ralph didn't write the melody, but wrote it down from the singing of a Mr Pottipher in 1903. https://archive.org/details/journaloffolkson02folk/page/142 Ralph also didn't write the words, as these came from broadsides as early as 1813: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/edition/12936 This recording is 100% my own arrangement, but no doubt the content ID system will try to claim it. And while it will get released after 30 days when I dispute the claim, that is 30 days of a music label running (and profiting) from ads on my content. Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Performance by Song Brother (Miguel Heatwole, Anthony Woolcott and Sophie Moore) at the Yass Irish and Celtic Festival in 2022, in the Lovat Chapel. Music by Song Brother, Triantan and Miguel available here: https://miguelheatwole.bandcamp.com/

After a very busy weekend with the Yass Irish and Celtic Music Festival, I am off to Kiama next weekend to play at the Folk by the Sea Festival. https://www.folkbythesea.com.au/ As part of the festival, I'm doing a set on Friday for Spinfest in Wollongong. https://wollongong.nsw.gov.au/explore/art-and-culture/spin-fest Not having any bicycle related songs in my repertoire, I tried my hand at setting this well-known Banjo Paterson poem to music: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulga_Bill's_Bicycle In some children's books the bicycle is drawn as a penny-farthing, but apparently it was this bicycle which was all the rage in 1896: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_bicycle #BanjoPaterson #MulgaBill #Spinfest2022 Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

The Padstow Farewell / Leaving Song / Farewell Shanty is one of the most watched videos on my channel. The recording wasn't great, so I have done another one here. Getting enough watch hours on my channel so that I can have some control over YouTube placing ads on my videos would be great. If Sea Shanties are your favorite studying music, listen away! #SeaShanty Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

No doubt it has been on the minds of folks from Scotland, that the newly acceded king of England, Charles Philip Arthur George, is not the only person to have claimed the throne of England as Charles III. The Corries did a fabulous version of this song as 'Come O'er the Stream Charlie' with slightly different words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrrwyhvJfk8 The words I have used are from here: https://archive.org/details/jacobiterelicsof00hogg/page/90 published in 1821. A version here, from 1921 has the transformation of bonnets into bayonets and also missed the verse about Mary from Glen McQuarrie's services being offered: https://archive.org/details/recitalinsongsto00calh/page/15 This is the Maclean, Sir Hector, that wrote to Charles in 1744: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Hector_Maclean,_5th_Baronet #scotland #kingcharlesIII Jacobite bonnet photo from here: https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/collection-search-results/bonnet-glengarry/16534 Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

In much of human history, monarchs are greedy, cruel, selfish and removed from the realities of the lives of their subjects. Queen Elizabeth II was none of those things, in fact over her 70 year reign she exemplified dignity, compassion and service to others. I wrote this song based on some of the quotes attributed to the Queen: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/queen-elizabeth-ii-quotes Chords and lyrics here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/the-price-we-pay-for-love/ #queenelizabeth Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Thankyou to Flying Ace for suggesting I have a go at this one. The last stanza of the poem was used as the basis for 'Pippin's Song' in the Peter Jackson adaptation of Lord of the Rings. The full poem is a lot less menacing. Covered beautifully here by @Alina Gingertail : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44FM2tEXyOE My new filk album is out! https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/album/the-space-between-us Images from Pixabay. #filk #lotr #Tolkien

In response to a #filkhaven discussion on space lullabies. Here is a fabulous one from @Chris Hadfield - Topic - https://open.spotify.com/track/2XbKmMIOi5bjhz3Zpl5C6e?si=22cfb26a454147c4 #filk #space #ukulele Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

The theme for #TradSongTues this week is #Nonsense. Here is the ballad from the mid 1800s: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/edition/13837 Many versions of this song exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Derby_Ram I've cobbled the chorus from the melody that Wheeze and Suck Band do, but using the 1800s lyrics. #derby Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Third time's the charm Artemis team! Original in all it's 80s glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6FBfAQ-NDE #Nasa #Artemis Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I have watched the first two episodes of the new Prime series, Rings of Power and a big part of the show focuses on Galadriel. Here is my setting of this poem by Tolkien: https://allpoetry.com/Galadriel's-Song-Of-Eldamar #tolkien #galadriel #RingsofPower Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Wonderful that yet again the work of J.R.R Tolkien is back in the public eye, almost 50 years since his passing. Here is the poem: https://allpoetry.com/I-Sit-And-Think #Tolkien #RingsofPower Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

A song on the passing of Mikhail Gorbachev. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gorbachev Gorbachev was instrumental in the destruction of the Communist Party in Russia. Chords and Lyrics here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/the-man-who-let-the-wall-come-down/ #Russia #Gorbachev #Горбачёв Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Wrote this while waiting for the Artemis I live stream launch. Photos all from Nasa. Read the program plan here: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/a_sustained_lunar_presence_nspc_report4220final.pdf About Eugene Cernan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cernan#Apollo_17 Article about China and Russia's response here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/chinese-view-of-nasas-moon-plans-trying-hard-to-relive-apollo-glories/ Lyrics and Chords here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/back-to-the-moon/ #NASA #Artemis #filk Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

It was an inspiring cross-generational moment when the fans of Stranger Things 3 were treated to a fabulous song from the lives of kids that grew up in the 1980s and saw The NeverEnding Story. This film was pivotal in my belief in the world of magic beyond the dogma of religion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_(film) This song was written by Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_NeverEnding_Story_(song) and is sung in the 'Battle of Starcourt' by the actors who play Suzie and Dustin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_Things_(season_3)#Music #strangerthings #theneverendingstory Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

I took a photo of this bear outside the local St. Vincent de Paul shop here in Yass last week. It made me sad. This organization does great work, please support them (the bear isn't their fault, and really this song is a metaphor): https://www.vinnies.org.au/shops/view/1576 #Yass Lyrics and Chords here: https://www.folklounge.org/portfolio/abandoned/ Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

Malcolm Guite's (@Malcolm Guite ) upload this week was a reading of the introduction to Gilbert Keith Chesterton's book, The Ballad of the White Horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WnXV-jCNWE Of course I was drawn to Book III, where Alfred sneaks into the camp of the Dane's he is at war with to have a bit of a song-off with his enemy. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1719/1719-h/1719-h.htm#link2H_4_0004 The singer is actually called Elf, not 'an' elf, but I liked the idea and the description of the singer in the ballad seems elvish. #lyre Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/

John Farnham's albums in the 80s and 90s were a big part of the soundtrack to my childhood in Australia. Wishing John a quick recovery from his surgery, and thanks for sharing your music with us since 1964! Here is John's first awkward (mostly because of the dancers) TV appearance in 1967: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZeRmpvCjEw This song was written by Harry Bogdanovs and appeared on John's 1986 album, Whispering Jack. Photos from the full discography here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Farnham_discography Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/ #JohnFarnham

I am very excited that it looks like our local Yass Irish and Celtic festival of music, dance and language is going ahead this year, after a three year break due to Covid. Less than three weeks to go! #JointheCraicInYass Festival details here: https://www.irishcelticmusicfestival.com/ ( I don't have my set time yet) I am also playing at the Folk by the Sea Festival in Kiama the weekend after: https://www.folkbythesea.com.au/ This song dates from around 1850: http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/view/edition/8911 Thought it was revived in many forms during the 1960's folk craze, possibly after travelling to the US first. The tune is referenced as extant in some of the 1800s ballads, though it is not clear if the refrain is historical or if it matches the tune used today. Purchase my music: Bandcamp: https://ozfolklounge.bandcamp.com/