Entries tagged with rankins

Current Mood: recumbent
Current Location: Juliana's house
Current Music: Rankin Family - Christy Campbell Medley

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Sour Patch Kids Watermelon martini:

Two parts Stoli Razberi vodka
Two parts sour apple schnapps
Two parts sour watermelon schnapps
Two parts sour mix

Shake with ice, pour. Makes one serving. Lather, rinse, repeat PRN.

Tuck extremely cute toddler into bed (after three books and three songs, two of them Beatles covers), program Pandora to "Rankin Family", mix up the recipe, put your feet up.

Life? Is good. :D

Current Mood: exanimate
Current Location: it's windy as heck in Narragansett
Current Music: Natalie MacMaster (with Cookie Rankin) - The Drunken Piper

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far am bi mi fhìn is ann a bhios mo dhòchas

Day 3: A song that makes you dance:

I also love the video. I double-dare anyone to try NOT to dance to this.

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Current Mood: hee!
Current Location: brrr in RI
Current Music: Rankin Family - As I Roved Out

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she had a dark and a roving eye, and her earrings touched her shoulder

Why on Earth haven't I linked to this before? I mean, come on, it was obviously made just for me, right?

Um. I might actually have that frightening CD. *gestures nonchalantly toward Current Music*.

Okay, time to get dressed and go buy cat food before my cats a. starve or b.attack.

Current Mood: enthralled
Current Location: home
Current Music: Natalie MacMaster - Close to the Floor

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1971's "Vanishing Cape Breton Fiddler" documentary

The end of this segment has twelve-year-old John Morris Rankin talking about his fiddle playing, and a very young Rankin Family playing. Just, wow, is all. What a treasure it is.&hearts

If anyone has the rest of this program, please let me know? I'll pay postage, copying fees, anything. I don't hold out much hope, but maybe somebody has it somewhere. Apparently it might still be available in some libraries. I have a at least a couple of people on my flist from Nova Scotia, so, I'll keep my fingers crossed.

I really, really have to look into lessons, very soon.

ETA: Apparently this documentary was the catalyst for the Glendale Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling in 1973, which in turn gave birth to The Cape Breton Fiddlers' Association, and began a revival of an art form that had been in danger of dying out completely. Without the documentary as a wake-up call, a real tragedy might have happened, which makes it even more wow.

Current Mood: yay!
Current Location: RI is freeezing!
Current Music: Rankins - The River

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your fields will plenty reap, and your children, like every spring, will autumn keep

EEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *does really, really bad step dance*

Cape Breton's Rankin Family reunites for new album

The eerie thing is that John Morris has been on my mind a lot recently. Maybe it's because I've been thinking about John Lennon and how I remember where I was when I heard he'd been killed. I also remember exactly where I was when I found out that John Morris had died. They were even the same age. Too young, way too young.

Okay, off to get dinner.