Virtual # 19, Poetry!

 We do permit poetry, don't we?

Here's an offering from David Gillingham ...

Where Now My Love?

We have been to Boots and Poundland

and had a look in Smiths,

we have walked the precinct twice now

and still have a long list.

We could have left home later

and missed the Lidl crowd,

we could have stayed at home too

though seems that’s not allowed.

 

Our mornings are quite taken

with lots of things to do,

how did it come to this love

when was the change in you?

We met when we were young still

I knew you were for me,

you brought me joy and gladness

as all our friends agree.

 

We have had so many good years

I hope there’s more to go,

but you are getting frail dear

I want you, love, to know.

You are my inspiration

you are my saving guide,

without you I am nothing

I need you at my side.

 

If I should ever fail you

I want to make it clear,

it won’t be my volition

I hold you oh so dear.

But fate has it’s own ways dear

and we are but mere men..............

What’s that, we’ve missed out Iceland?

we’d best go round again!

 

David Gilligan

Virtual #18

 Here's Berry, looking youthful as ever, but melancholy ...

Virtual # 17

 Here's Mick Wills again with a piece which he describes as a fingerstyle guitar solo ...

Out of the Blue

Beresford Greene speaks: The year 2020

My last post here was in 2011. My how the world has changed in that time. Yes and me along with it. 2020 has been the year of the CoVid19 virus. People that lived through it will never forget. It will be spoken of just as the Great Plague and Spanish 'flu' is all down through the years. As of this moment we still have not seen the full extent of the fall-out this spiteful virus will bring. In part this is due to the absence of any vaccine and the length of immunity afforded even after recovery from the illness. 

The musical scene has been devastated by the epidemic as all venues have been restricted or closed because of the threat of virus spread in enclosed spaces. It is a virulent disease that is both infectious and contagious. The only outlet for musical endeavours is now via the internet and cyber space. Surely now even the doubters will welcome the technology that affords this. Old friends are distantly available to us via an email or even a video link.

While the making of such a video would have once been a very difficult prospect, the wide availability of the Smart-phone makes it much more available. 

Only hope now separates us all from despair. Hope that this virus will soon be defeated or just disappear as suddenly as it arrived on the threshold of 2020.

I am going to see if I can provide a link here to my very latest video endeavour. While making no claims for it at this stage, it does open up the promise of a more sophisticated offering in the future.  https://youtu.be/rGwcs93YW3o

ATB to you all

Derek's choice ...

When did you last witness friends shaking hands?

Laura's choice ...

 

"It might be something else another day," writes Laura.

(But you're only allowed one!)

Is Newfoundland a Desert Island?

I have to thank Sylvia for bringing to my attention the music of the Irish composer, Shaun Davey, who composed a suite of music, The Brendan Voyage.

Liam O'Flynn (RIP) plays solo on this tenth movement, entitled Newfoundland ...

How can that guitarist look so bored?

Virtual #16

 Here's Dave again with a haunting little number ...

... he does all that without moving his fingers ... or his lips!

Virtual #15 and a Desert Island Disc ...

 Berry giveth of himself ...

YOURS!

(It's all done with mirrors!)

Then he recommends this for entertainment on that desert island ...

Virtual #14

 David Roberts plays this Lennon & MacCartney classic on his hand-crafted harp ...

(Non-commercial; no copyright infringement intended.)

Ken goes native ...

Congratulations to Ken for being the first, (after some significant deliberation,) to contribute to this Desert Island enterprise ...

 

 Thanks for this wonderful anthem, Ken.

Ken declares that his choice of sacred text will be Home Brewing for Desert Islanders!

(Sorry, can't find that on Amazon!)

Desert Island Discs ...

Let us entertain ourselves. 

Imagine this ...

You have been cast ashore on a desert island.

In your voluminous pockets you have a Complete Works of Shakespeare and a sacred text of your choice.

Strangely, buried beneath the sand you discover a device for reproducing music, (Solar-powered, of course!)

Choose one song or piece of music that would keep you entertained until your rescue at some indeterminate future date.

No self-recording required, and no frustrating technology to master.
Any genre of music permissible.

Please send your suggestions +/- a YouTube URL, and a short account of the reason for your choice, to cityfolkclub@gmail.com

We will not worry about copyright. If it is out there in the public domain, we'll grab it.

(Don't tell anyone I said this.)

Virtual #13

 

Here's another couple of contributions from Derek:

Ganges Blues and Four by Four.

Virtual #12

 OK, another one from me.
It's Graham and Eileen Pratt's song about singing ...

Regulars in Chichester will understand why I have to be careful about where I perform this.