| Music & lyric | Jillian LaDage |
|---|---|
| Vocals | Jillian LaDage |
| Piano / keyboard | Jillian LaDage |
| Floor tom | Mark Wyse |
| Mixing / mastering | Mark Wyse |
| Supported by | The Arts Partnership of Fargo/Moorhead and a Jade Presents grant |
| Copyright | 2016 Jillian LaDage / Tarith Cote. All rights reserved. |
Single · 2016
Digital single · with historical booklet
The midsummer fire festival of St. John’s Eve, brought to life as a single with a bonus historical account and a booklet of unreleased photographs. Available exclusively from this site.
Instrumentation. Voice, piano, keyboard and floor tom.
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Sunset, 23 June 2016. Another fire festival has begun. Voice, piano and a single floor tom that stands in for the whole bonfire.
To high places To holy wells Hills O mountains we come Hills mountains we come Full first fruits Our Summers wages Harvest in the sun Gather the sun From marshy ground near River Deel Flickers a flame Flickering flames Carried torches through fields we'd walk To fullness on a Plain Fullness of the Plain
The night it comes from
Sunset, 23 June 2016. Another fire festival has begun: the midsummer festival of St. John’s Eve.
“I’ve come across a description of one such night, described by an old schoolmaster who lived in West Limerick, which carried my initial impetus — Irish and Scottish summer-harvest celebrations — to focus on St. John’s Eve, or Bonfire Night.”
… the fire used to be lit exactly at sunset and had to be watched and tended until long after midnight. Prayers used to be said to gain God’s blessing on the crops, then at the peak-point of summer bloom.
What comes with it
The single is sold with a bonus booklet: the full historical account of the West Limerick bonfire tradition, source notes on the River Deel and the holy-well processions, and a set of previously unreleased photographs from the recording and from the first performance of the song — which happened, as it turned out, in front of a Viking ship.
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