Scary spooky Christmas song......from United Kingdom of course.

Thank you U.K. For the embed!

Not seen this before. I really enjoyed it. A reminder that xmas was grown from the original festival of Yule. It actually sums it up perfectly. I really like European folky stuff in general anyway, and the Green Man is all over my house.

It really is something! She can really sing! But is the dark undercurrent hers or that of a producer I wonder?

This is from Scotland. She is a Scot, not English. Please change the thread title.

She is Scottish but isn't the song English?
I changed it to United Kingdom.

Last Edited by Who is Blue Fairy on 12/22/2016 06:38 AM

the band are MUMMERS.

Mummers' Plays are folk plays performed by troupes of amateur actors, traditionally all male, known as mummers or guisers (also by local names such as rhymers, pace-eggers, soulers, tipteerers, wrenboys, galoshins and guisers). It refers particularly to a play in which a number of characters are called on stage, two of whom engage in a combat, the loser being revived by a Doctor character. This play is sometimes found associated with a sword dance though both also exist in Britain independently.

Although the main season for mumming throughout Britain was around Christmas, some parts of England had plays performed around All Souls' Day (known as Souling or soul-caking) or Easter (Pace-egging or Peace-egging). In north-eastern England the plays are traditionally associated with Sword dances or Rapper dances.