Trad Music & Miscellany Cottage

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Trad Music & Miscellany Cottage
Female
Last Login: 11/6/2009

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Music Player

Interests

General
Music, Musical instruments, Singing, Songwriting; Record/cd collecting; Painting and drawing; Books; History (Medieval, various other times); Art; traditional crafts, decor and design; the designs of William Morris; Antiques; Antiquarians; handsome old architecture; carved wood; cosy cottages; stained glass lamps and lanterns; paisley; teapots, wooden boxes with little drawers; earthy colours; beauty in nature (countryside, flowers, birds and birdsong, trees, meadows and woodland, the sea, wind and rain and the gloaming; Autumn and Winter; homemade bread and soup; Tea; Travel; Museums; Scotland; Shetland and the Shetland Folk Festival; Orkney; England; Ireland, Wales, other places...
Music
Jethro Tull, Steeleye Span, The Tannahill Weavers, Ossian, Dervish, Alba, Jock Tamson's Bairns, De Danann, Altan, Oisin, JSD Band, Silly Wizard, Billy Ross, Five Hand Reel, Old Blind Dogs, Dougie MacLean, Shooglenifty, Boys of the Lough, Back of the Moon, Malinky, Session A9, Fiddlers' Bid, The Clutha, Archie Fisher, John Renbourn, Robin Williamson, Alan Stivell, Malicorne, Folque, Folk och Rackare, Kornog, Cliar, early Clannad, Whistlebinkies, Andy Irvine, Planxty, Genesis, Al Stewart, Shirley and Dolly Collins, Maddy Prior, Anne Briggs, Gaelic song; Guitar, Fiddle (so many great fiddlers: John Martin, Stuart Morison, Angus R. Grant, Alasdair Fraser, Frankie Gavin...a very long list if I go on!) mandolin, bouzouki and other folky stringed instruments; Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh, Breton folk music; European folk music; Scandinavian folk music; Rock music; progressive folk/rock; Baroque music (especially J.S. Bach and Handel instrumental works); Medieval music (I am fascinated by the sound of medieval instruments, such as hurdy gurdy and portative pipe organ). Traditional music from Shetland and Orkney.
Movies
Not films here, ART: Naturalistic painting; the exquisite detail in the great Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite paintings. William Morris; The Arts & Crafts movement; Art Nouveau; Alphonse Mucha; J.W. Waterhouse; the great book illustrators including Arthur Rackham, Beatrix Potter, Howard Pyle, Edmund Dulac...; Burne-Jones; Vermeer; Millais; Samuel Palmer; William De Morgan; Pugin; Harry Clarke; Jessie M. King; pottery; Gothic & Medieval art; woodcuts; tiles; illuminated books like The Book Of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels; Art that is beautiful...
Books
The songs and poems of Robert Burns; George Mackay Brown; Sir Walter Scott; 'The Scots Fiddle' series by J. Murray Neil; Charles Dickens; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Agatha Christie; Joan Aiken; M.R. James; Peter Ackroyd; Susan Hill; The Irish R.M. stories by Somerville & Ross; Lillian Beckwith; books on rural/country life, traditional crafts and natural history, landscapes, Folklore and old legends of the British Isles; History; herbals; old ballads; poetry; funny stories; travel narratives; The Bible Stuart McHardy folktales

Details

Status: Single
Orientation: Straight
Religion: Christian - other
Smoke / Drink: No / No

Comments

Kurt Benit

Nov 5 2009 3:10 AM

Methinks I'm glad to have you as a friend! Thanks, Kurt
The Logarhythm

Nov 1 2009 7:48 PM

Pint of bloody Special please mate!
Deborah Harvey

Oct 30 2009 3:49 PM

Yes, it looks like we have lots in common. Looking forward to being your friend.

Deb XX
Deborah Harvey

Oct 30 2009 8:15 AM

Hello, you look interesting too, thanks for finding me!

Deb XX
Kim Guy

Oct 23 2009 5:38 PM

Adlai Stevenson said "In quiet places, reason abounds"...think that explains a lot about the current condition of the world! I hope your weekend is full of tranquil spaces and calm! go well, with mirth and music (suitably muted!). x0x
CaroleCarole Miller

Oct 22 2009 5:30 PM

Good to hear you've been busy - and a new CD coming too! Woo hoo! (I don't usually say this in real life!) Looking forward to adult conversations again! All mine have been said in an over acted very high voice for 3 months! Just waiting for some work to come my way now! And now the music work will flood in because I am doing something else! Already got some wedding bookings! That's life! Will take a peek at your pages later - off out to choir! Oh joy!

Carole x
David Franks: Walkabout…

Oct 21 2009 10:53 AM

After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...

Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse
(please see my blog):
TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001

Where traditions are not so rare;
Sea, country and works scent the air;
A multitude of monuments,
Planted tubs and patterned pavements.

The longish pedestrian malls;
The remnants of defensive walls;
Historic buildings are a gauge
Of the respect for heritage.

Wheat, rape and pines in the fields;
Estuaries guarded by shields;
Long sandy beaches and wide scenes;
Romantic-ruin go-betweens.

Rivers in parts licked by trees,
Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries,
And crossed by practical delights -
Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.

Fine churches headed at Durham;
Football kits ad infinitum;
Kept castles - one for study;
Masonry behind masonry.

And, with moulding-works out that way,
It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?

(C) David Franks 2003
CaroleCarole Miller

Oct 20 2009 9:47 PM

It's true - I am a bad friend! Was so focussed on getting through my placement and woohoo - passed. And now I get my life back (she said!) SO how are you?

Tioraidh
Carole x
Richard Staines

Oct 16 2009 6:12 PM

thanks for accepting.

i hope yo ulike my music.

have a great weekend.

rich.
Andy J

Oct 15 2009 8:57 PM

Thank you Lori for the kind birthday wishes and photograph. Hope you're well and enjoying the early Autumn. Andy x
ed a.k.a. GaelicStormered mcdermott

Oct 11 2009 5:27 PM

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ADD
Sally That lemonade wom…

Oct 6 2009 3:39 PM

You will never believe the weather over here; it's warm and raining at the same time. Really muggy and sticky! Can't believe it's October.

How's life with you? I was back in the studio yesterday and we did 6 tracks in one day (not done and dusted tho) It must be a record!

Sal
GoatwackerAlan o reilly

Oct 4 2009 4:57 AM

My Pleasure.
GoatwackerAlan o reilly

Oct 1 2009 11:28 PM

Hi Lori, You have some lovely art on your page, Great Site, Thanks for sharing.
Andy J

Sep 30 2009 12:42 PM

Thanks for your kind blog comment Lori, much appreciated. I'll be sure to leave most photos up and I'll keep in touch for sure! Hope you're well. Andy x
Sally That lemonade wom…

Sep 27 2009 9:43 PM

Yes i agree, it's nice being wrapped up warmly in hats and scarves. At the moment it's so warm, it's confusing. My lemonade season finished last weekend, and the warm weather continues! All summer it's been gloomy and damp and now it is lemonade weather. Resting time for me now, tho, because i'm in Devon for a few days. Absolute bliss.

Sal
Sally That lemonade wom…

Sep 27 2009 4:47 PM

Yes, my dear, we have autumn, although at the moment it's really hot, during the day. We are in for some frosts tho from thursday so the the weather man says.

Hope you are having fun in the autumn sunshine.

sal
Philing

Sep 25 2009 9:04 PM

Hi!

Thanks for the add!
Nice to meet you!
Welcome in our Univers!
Best regards!
Phil
Andy J

Sep 18 2009 10:31 PM

Thanks for the various comments Lori. I highly recommend John Burnside: I think he is one of Britain's very best contemporary poets and I rate him as highly as one of my favourite poets Edward Thomas, in fact I think he is very like Thomas in some ways. Good to hear you have 'An Orkney Tapestry' too. Thanks for posting that photo of your books in the comment - great to see 'The Natural History of Selborne' - one of my favourite books of course. I'm so pleased you like that Latvian farmhouse and the tiny Welsh cottage - both places really appeal to me. Andy x
Andy J

Sep 18 2009 9:14 PM

Hi Lori, hope you're well. Following your lead, I've posted eight photos of my 20th century and Contemporary Poets book collection including this one:

Thanks for the idea. Have a great weekend!

Andy x
PhilPhilip Lord

Sep 18 2009 11:47 AM

Hi Lori,

Just saw this and thought of you. x

http://www.spiralearth.co.uk/news/story.asp?nid=3454
Spencie’s Tunes

Sep 15 2009 8:41 PM

Thanks for the comment Lori - it was a good spree! Hope all is well with you. Cheers, Steven
Bromyard Folk Festival

Sep 14 2009 12:56 AM

Welcome to the Bromyard Folk Festival family!
Acoustic Music In Fife

Sep 9 2009 12:46 PM
.:Roisinn:.

Sep 9 2009 6:53 AM

Thanks Lori for your birthday wishes !

Blurbs

About me:

"In the dark nights of winter round the peat fire we gathered; With song, tale and laughter the hours we would pass." Hello! Welcome to the Trad Music Cottage, my cosy little site that reflects interests in traditional music, tales, landscape, all kinds of things. Not everything is related, but most all of it is harmonious. I have a deep love and respect for traditional music, particularly Scottish, it being very dear to my heart and in my ancestry, and Irish and English folk music and other kinds. I'm a musician and for more on that go to www.myspace.com/lorihartbarger I sing, play guitar, flute, a bit of mandolin, etc... (also a Celtic cittern and a mountain dulcimer which I don't really know how to play properly). The next instrument I desire to learn is the fiddle (an instrument I'm smitten with!).

I am also an artist, watercolours being my main medium. My paintings are inspired by nature, folklore, stories and the countryside landscapes of Scotland and England, and are meant to reflect the beauty and peacefulness of rural life. I'm just about to embark on a few new projects involving painting on wood with acrylic paints, and it will be interesting to see how that turns out! .. < Below are a few paintings from over the years, but bear in mind that some of the photographs look rather pale and faded compared to the original paintings.

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De Danann

back record cover painting from Johnny & Phil Cunningham's record 'Against the Storm'

Below are some wonderful folk records and some wonderful album covers from the seventies(excuse the wonky angle of some of them)!

For some non-traditional music, Jethro Tull, my favourite rock band. Ian Anderson is a remarkably talented man and these records got me into writing songs and teaching myself to play flute years ago. Amazing music!!

Who I'd like to meet:

Creative people who make beautiful things. Honest, sensitive, sincere friends with a good sense of humour who have at least somewhat similar interests and a passion for traditional folk music, played on real instruments. I prefer things that are timeless and appreciate the past with the present, and am not interested in things being trendy or for just the moment. I've found great people on here from many wonderful countries who are making incredibly good and finely crafted music of the highest quality and friends who share a love of good music. I love to receive comments from like-minded friends and to give them (and I do try to leave a comment for everyone, although sometimes I do fall behind) but I'm not interested in adding bands or others who have no similar interests just to add numbers to a list. I also tend to have a good look over everyone's page first before accepting invitations, just to see what you are about, so please don't be offended if I don't accept, as I refuse if your interests are inharmonious with mine, if your page is set to private and I can't see it or it doesn't give any information about you. "To know someone here or there with whom you feel there is an understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed-that can make this life a garden."