By Damh the Bard|2019-11-29T17:45:43+00:00November 29th, 2019|Categories: druidry, News|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, OBOD, Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, philip carr-gomm|13 Comments
This week my mind has been occupied with very practical things. At midnight on Sunday tickets for the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids Special Summer Gathering went on sale. Or rather they should have gone on sale. I stayed up to press the button to make
By Damh the Bard|2019-12-05T12:52:54+00:00November 19th, 2019|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: DruidCast|0 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 152 Uffington Hill - Playing Rapunzel - https://playingrapunzel.com September Morning Bell - SJ Tucker - https://skinnywhitechick.bandcamp.com No One’s Slave - Heathens All - https://www.facebook.com/heathens.all/ Song of the Meadow Lark - Space Goats - https://www.facebook.com/thespacegoats/ Spirit of Albion - Damh the Bard - https://www.paganmusic.co.uk
By Damh the Bard|2019-11-08T12:06:39+00:00November 8th, 2019|Categories: Bardism, music, song writing|Tags: Creativity, damh the bard, modern bard, music, song, song writing, songwriting, writer|5 Comments
It's a question I've been asked many times but it's not something I've written about here on the blog so here goes! I'll admit it. I'm a melody and riff man. I like pretty much straight forward music with a hook in the chorus and a great
By Damh the Bard|2019-11-04T23:16:06+00:00November 4th, 2019|Categories: druidry, paganism|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, Halloween, long man of wilmington, magic, pagan, paganism, religion, Ritual, samhain, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|9 Comments
A blessed release from the week's rain but the chalk still wet underfoot. Slippery too, as we walked along the old track to the South Downs. A blue sky battling with scattered clouds, and rooks sharing their wisdom on the wing, calling to those walkers below that
By Damh the Bard|2019-10-25T12:31:08+01:00October 25th, 2019|Categories: Fortean, paganism, Seasons|Tags: ancestors, fearie, folk, Halloween, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, Sabbat, samhain, spirituality, wheel of the year|12 Comments
I remember when the ghosts seemed to be everywhere. Back in my childhood, before hand-held bright screens and cars, when the world was slower, riding my bike into town, past the old fire station next to the park. Old, dark, and empty. I used to pretend a
By Damh the Bard|2019-10-21T11:06:22+01:00October 21st, 2019|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, folk, Mabinogion, magic, modern bard, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, The Third Branch, Y Mabinogi|12 Comments
In my previous article, I wrote that the spoken word for Y Mabinogi, The Third Branch had been recorded. Some of you got very excited about that and asked me through PM when the album would be released, so maybe there was a little confusion about how
By Damh the Bard|2019-10-18T15:14:28+01:00October 18th, 2019|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: Andy Letcher, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, English Magic, English Magic Tarot, folk, magic, modern bard, OBOD, pagan, paganism|0 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 151 Miller’s Gin/Potato Anxiety - Damien O’Kane and Ron Block - https://purerecords.net/products/banjophony Kalahari Rain - James J Turner - https://www.jamesjturner.com Talky Bit - The English Magic Tarot - Andy Letcher - https://twitter.com/andyletcher See yourself in Nature - David Ellis - https://davidellisuk.bandcamp.com DruidCast theme
By Damh the Bard|2019-10-08T12:50:17+01:00October 8th, 2019|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, Mabinogion, magic, modern bard, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, Y Mabinogi|15 Comments
They were back on Sunday. The two crows. As I walked up the small incline that lead out of the field to the edge of the Adur river, there they were. Once more they landed before me, then took off, played on the wind, landed, walked a
By Damh the Bard|2019-09-24T10:59:54+01:00September 24th, 2019|Categories: paganism, Thinking About|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, long man of wilmington, pagan, paganism, religion, Sabbat, spirituality, wheel of the year, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|Comments Off on Thinking About – The Harvest Festivals
Take our prayers of thanksgiving, to life and John Barleycorn I love reading other peoples' blogs on the internet and recently two articles came up in my RSS feed that got me thinking. The first was Your Favourite Sabbats (or Sabbats by the Numbers) by Jason
By Damh the Bard|2019-09-18T13:56:05+01:00September 18th, 2019|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: damh, Dion Fortune, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, magic, OBOD, pagan, paganism, Penny Billington|1 Comment
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 150 Congratulations from the Adventuring Guild - https://www.theadventuringguild.com Roots - The Lark in Linen - http://www.thelarkinlinen.co.uk The Talky Bit - Penny Billington - http://www.pennybillington.co.uk Captain Timewarp - Brian Henke - https://www.brianhenkeguitarist.com Arthurian tale - Professor Roland Rotherham - https://www.rolandrotherham.co.uk DruidCast theme - Hills
