By Damh the Bard|2020-03-26T11:56:03+00:00March 26th, 2020|Categories: House Concerts, music|Tags: damh, druid, druidism, druidry, folk, folk music, house concerts, music, pagan, paganism, wicca, wiccan|7 Comments
What an amazing evening it was on Tuesday. At 7.30 pm I pressed the 'go live' button on my Facebook page and did a little informal House Concert. I had no idea who would watch, but it just felt like a good thing to do, what with
By Damh the Bard|2020-03-24T11:53:08+00:00March 24th, 2020|Categories: music, News|Tags: damh the bard, live concert, pagan, paganism|7 Comments
Hello my friends, This is just a little news update to let you know that I'll be going live tonight at 7.30pm UK time on my Facebook page to have a little chat, and to play some songs. These are very surreal times but thankfully the internet
By Damh the Bard|2020-03-18T13:23:04+00:00March 18th, 2020|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, Nature, OBOD, pagan, paganism, religion, Rewilding, spirituality|2 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 156 Four Directions - Ginger Doss - https://gingerdoss.com The Talky Bit - Author Liz Williams from AnderidaFest 2020 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Williams Secret Song - The Bellflowers - https://www.thebellflowers.co.uk Clara of Tir na Nog - Celia - https://www.celiaonline.com DruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow
By Damh the Bard|2020-03-11T20:59:37+00:00March 9th, 2020|Categories: History, paganism|Tags: AE Waite, druid, druidism, druidry, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, magic, pagan, paganism, Pamela Colman Smith, Rider Waite Smith, spirituality, tarot|9 Comments
That was a fabulous weekend. Our annual pilgrimage to Cornwall for the Pagan Phoenix South West conference held at a holiday centre just outside of Bude. Some of you may know I was born in Cornwall and have a deep connection to the land that made my
By Damh the Bard|2020-02-25T13:35:58+00:00February 25th, 2020|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, damh the bard, druid, druidism, druidry, Mabinogion, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, The Third Branch, Y Mabinogi|11 Comments
Well, my friends, it's nearly here. If you are a regular reader of the blog you'll know it was my intention, after releasing the Second Branch album, to write an album of music, but that was not to be. The Third Branch picks up from the moment
By Damh the Bard|2020-02-18T14:31:03+00:00February 18th, 2020|Categories: DruidCast|1 Comment
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 155 Sister Moon - Kimberley Steele (Queenie) - https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/queenie3 Interview with Professor Roland Rotherham - https://www.rolandrotherham.co.uk Sing the Sun - Davey Dodds - https://www.facebook.com/people/Davey-Dodds/100013901624600 The Last Battle of Moytura - Sean Fitzgerald - https://www.taraopenstudio.com DruidCast Theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh
By Damh the Bard|2020-02-10T12:17:37+00:00February 10th, 2020|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, Mabinogion, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, Y Mabinogi|5 Comments
Coming Spring 2020 - Y Mabinogi - The Third Branch - Damh the Bard As the 7 survivors of the war return to the Island of the Mighty, they find a landscape changed and a new King upon the throne. Little do they know the eyes of
By Damh the Bard|2020-01-31T12:51:22+00:00January 31st, 2020|Categories: paganism, Seasons|Tags: celtic lore, christian mysticism, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, modern bard, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|9 Comments
Imbolc, Candlemass, on or around the 1st February but for me when the land is white with Snowdrops. A festival that for all my Pagan life has been sacred to the Goddess Brighid - Goddess of Smiths, Healers and Poets, and also one of the Goddesses whose
By Damh the Bard|2020-01-20T12:26:37+00:00January 20th, 2020|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, OBOD, philip carr-gomm, spirituality|1 Comment
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 154 I Fly Through Space - Spirits of the Earth - https://spiritsoftheearth.bandcamp.com Interview with Philip Carr-Gomm - https://www.philipcarr-gomm.com Grandmother Moon - Liz McMahon - https://youtu.be/qZfR4UCc2y8 Welcome Mari Lwyd - S J Tucker - https://skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.com DruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow - Damh
By Damh the Bard|2020-01-10T12:58:20+00:00January 10th, 2020|Categories: druidry, paganism, spirituality|Tags: celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, Mabinogion, myth, mythology, Nature, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality|16 Comments
For much of my life, when I found myself walking through a forest or the countryside on one of those little public footpaths that meander across the green Sussex Downs I spent much of my time looking down. Partly to see where I was walking and to
