By Damh the Bard| 2018-06-04T12:23:32+00:00 June 4th, 2018|Categories: Tales from the Road|Tags: damh the bard, druid, druidism, druidry, modern bard, OBOD, pagan, paganism, Tales from the Road|1 Comment
Some of you may have seen the news from this weekend's Summer Gathering, but just in case you missed it, the link to the news is here. What a blessing to have such a moment handled with so much thought, care, and grace. An honour to be a
By Damh the Bard| 2018-05-29T11:19:24+00:00 May 29th, 2018|Categories: Tales from the Road|Tags: damh the bard, folk, live concert, modern bard, music, Opera, Tales from the Road, vienna|4 Comments
So we said our farewells to the BMWC and our friends from the Czech Republic, then hopped on a train from Prague to Vienna. I live in the South of England so my relationship with trains is somewhat tainted by my experiences with Southern Rail. However, most
By Damh the Bard| 2018-05-25T11:10:30+00:00 May 25th, 2018|Categories: Tales from the Road|Tags: BMWC, Czech Republic, damh the bard, druid, druidism, druidry, live concert, pagan, paganism, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|9 Comments
Well, it's been a while... I've just got back home from a two week tour on the European mainland. Starting with 5 days in the Czech Republic at the BMWC camp, then onto Vienna for a concert there, and finally to the Netherlands for the OBOD International
By Damh the Bard| 2018-05-31T09:09:18+00:00 May 21st, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: DruidCast, druidism, druidry, folklore, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, wicca|2 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 134 Niiv’s Cauldron - Omnia - https://www.worldofomnia.com Professor Graham Harvey from AnderidaFest 2018 - What we can learn from Indigenous Peoples - http://www.open.ac.uk/people/gh2744 Suck my Flute - Omnia - https://www.worldofomnia.com DruidCast theme - Hills they are Hollow - http://www.paganmusic.co.uk For further information about
By Damh the Bard| 2018-05-01T14:59:51+00:00 May 1st, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, Mabinogion, magic, modern bard, music, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, spirituality, Y Mabinogi|13 Comments
I thought it was about time that I gave you all an update on the next album - Y Mabinogi - The Second Branch. I wrote the spoken word section late last year and was looking for the perfect time to record it all when the Beast
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-23T15:27:20+00:00 April 23rd, 2018|Categories: paganism|Tags: art, Cornwall, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, spirituality|16 Comments
Well hello! The blog fell quiet last week. Me and Cerri went on our first holiday, an actually holiday, for three years. The 10 days started with a trip north for a weekend exploring the ancient Bull's Hide Trance, a ritual we have written down from various
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-10T13:23:08+00:00 April 10th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, King Arthur, myth, mythology, OBOD, pagan, paganism, Professor Roland Rotherham, story|0 Comments
Shownotes for Druidcast Episode 133 Look to the Water - S J Tucker - http://sjtucker.com The Talky Bit - Helen Woodford-Dean - Spiritual Orkney, from the OBOD Winter Gathering - https://www.spiritualorkney.co.uk The Coming of Spring - Dancing Hare - http://www.dancinghare.co.uk Story Time - The Lady of the
By Damh the Bard| 2018-04-03T12:29:09+00:00 April 3rd, 2018|Categories: Thinking About|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, Pagan Federation, paganism, philip carr-gomm, religion, spirituality|20 Comments
I was on a panel at the recent Pagan Federation Devon and Cornwall conference and said something that a number of people have mentioned to me since, so I thought maybe a blog article on it would be of value. Over the years I've heard some Pagans
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-27T10:25:51+00:00 March 27th, 2018|Categories: druidry|Tags: damh the bard, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, modern bard, myth, mythology, OBOD, pagan, paganism, song writing, the cauldron born|8 Comments
Every Monday at 8pm UK time Philip Carr-Gomm does a live broadcast from the Facebook page of the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids called Tea with Philip. Hundreds of people from all around the world tune in and connect with a meditation, and then Philip will
By Damh the Bard| 2018-03-21T12:39:00+00:00 March 21st, 2018|Categories: paganism, Thinking About|Tags: Andrew Forrest, art, cerri lee, druid, druidism, druidry, Laura Tempest Zakroff, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, Peter Pracownik, religion, Sarah Vivian, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|9 Comments
This article really continues the theme set by a recent post about a moment that changed modern Paganism. If the publication of Triumph of the Moon gave modern Pagans the permission to accept that our path was relatively new, that the stories we had been told of
