RoyalRegular Posted November 29, 2005 Share Posted November 29, 2005 Local carols at the Royal Hotel Dungworth start first Sunday after Armistice Sunday. There are literally dozens of local carols with names like Back Lane, Spout Lane, Holmefirth Anthem, Diadem, Jacob's Well, Old Foster etc etc etc. You have to know the words to While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night, as they sing these words to about 30 different tunes (including Amazing Grace and On Ilkley Moor baht tat....try it!). You'll have to get there early though as they queue outside from about 11am. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scout Posted November 30, 2005 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Oh how I love these local Carols. There were old vinyl records of these Carols and music/word books to buy. The Worrall male voice choir sing a lot of these at Christmas. Fabulous!! :clap: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neurological Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 You guys say 'was' like this is a dead tradition -- those carols are still everywhere, you just have to know where to look... there are about 50 different tunes for 'while shepards' sung in the area for a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetdexter Posted December 12, 2005 Author Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yes, I think RoyalRegular has pointed out the significance of 'While Shepherds Watch Their Flock'. I am just looking at it from 4,000 miles away, so for me it is a tradition in the past. If you look at basalt's link it is pretty obvious that the tradition is alive and well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nanrobbo Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 When I was a kid we used to sing to the tune While shepherds etc While shepherds washed their socks by night all seated round the tub a bar of sunlight soap came down and they began to scrub etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I used to play loads of local carols when I played in sheffield brass bands. There are hundreds of them but the best ones I remember include. Pratty flowers (holmfirth) Back Lane Malin Bridge Stannington Hail Smiling Morn Oughtibridge (swaine hark) Tyre Mill Bradfield Spout Cottage Worrall I have all the music and words for all these carols, and there are also about 12 different musical arrangements for while shepherds watched, which always goes down very well in pubs. Including "Ilkla moor bah't at" In Banding ( Brass Band ) and local church and Choir circles these carols are known as Local Carols. Many of them are anonymous and some have been passed down the generations for a century or more. They often have very interesting arrangements with solos and bits where Ladies sing one line and Gents sing the next. And some of them have old fashioned local language included in their verses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyto Alba Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 There was a documentary programme on radio 4 last Christmas covering this Sheffield Carol tradition. I suppose it might be available from the BBC archives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Originally posted by Plain Talker "Hail Shiney Morn" was a carol which I understood was local to Stocksbridge... My elderly (Born 1906) next door neighbour, when I lived out there used to treat us all to a rendition of it, for Christmas.. she "were" an old love, she "were"... lol PT Here's the first section of this Carol : - Hail! Smiling morn, smiling morn. That tips the hills with gold. That tips the hills with gold. Whose rosy fingers ope the gates of D-a---------y Ope the gates, the gates of day, Hail! Hail! Hail! Hail! <repeat from start> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalRegular Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Hail! Smiling morn, smiling morn That tips the hills with gold, That tips the hills with gold, At whose rosy fingers open wide the gates of heav'n the gates of heav'n At whose rosy fingers open wide the gates of heav'n *All the green fields that nature doth enfold All the green fields that nature doth enfold At whose bright presence Darkness flies away Flies away, flies away Flies away, flies away Darkness flies away, darkness flies away At whose bright presence darkness flies, Darkness flies away, flies away, flies away Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail Hail, Hail, Hail, Hail! repeat from * Thats the Dungworth version anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanman Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Many years ago I worked in the Royal at Dungworth over the Christmas period. The carols were amazing, even more so the number of people who came in specifically to hear them. There were people from New Zealand, Japan and all over! It was absolutely brilliant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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