Monday 1 September 2014

Return to Paradise Park!

Hooray - this week marked the return to Paradise Park for our little troupe, and hopefully the return to keeping up with the blog and sharing our songs, after quite a break.
This week we had a good ol' dance and sing to Miss Mary Mack.
This is an old classic - I learnt it properly from the singing of Ella Jenkins, on a Smithsonian Folkways recording. Here's a little clip of the lady herself including some fab harmonica playing:
And this is a version of the song, with some history behind the lyrics...
Next week I'll record it so we can post our version here.
We also tried Pole Pole also from Ella Jenkins... performed here by a chap in a funny hat:
Look forward to getting to know this one better too - sound like we need to add some animal noises - I think the babies and toddlers would love it :-)
Thanks for coming to sing and hopefully see you next week. xx

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