Modern-day bards?

[J P Maher]

Italian  'strega' witch' is from a Greek word for the owl... Google "Long Meg'...
 
'Cailleach also refers to standing stones as East  Slavic 'baba': kamennaya baba, and snezhnaya baba (snow granny, not -man)... You can find hilarious pictures of rambunctious young people building naughty snow babas...  
 
jpm
 

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Aukcyon has published many tabs (guitar chords) to its own songs online. 
http://chords.auctyon.ru/songs/

 




2013/10/12 Robert Orr <colkitto at rogers.com>

Two music venues, actually.   
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>I’ve actually been on a capercaillie hunt, a long time ago. 
>Anyone remember Dennis Ward’s “Starting Russian”? It had a passage on hunting, which mentioned capercaillies. 
>Scots maintains the spelling “capercailzie”
>The Irish form is borrowed from Scottish Gaelic. 
>I still remember being surprised at the passage in Genevra Gerhart:  “And the chances are that “capercaillie” means nothing to someone who has just looked up “gluxar’” in the dictionary, although s second’s reflection told me why this should be so.. 
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>Lorenz’s Jagdwörterbuch Russisch-Deutsch has one on the front cover 
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>Meanwhile, not a capercaillie, but the last great auk on St Kilda was killed on suspicion of being a witch 
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>Fascinating Robert.  I have never been a frequent user of either the word glukhar' or capercaille, but I made the association between 'caillie' and 'cailleach' (Irish Gaelic for witch) and not 'coille' (forest) and presumed that both the Russian and anglicised Gaelic words must have referred to a horrible sound the bird possibly makes.  I would never have associated caper with 'capall' (modern Irish Gaelic for horse), though.  
>Does the word glukhar' have any positive or negative associations in Russian?  To me as a non-native speaker, it seems negative, but a music venue has chosen it as its name ...
>AM
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>Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 00:22:27 -0400
>From: colkitto at ROGERS.COM
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>There’s always Arkona 
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>http://www.arkona-russia.com/en/enews/ 
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>And I can’t help noting that gluxar’ in Gaelic is capull-coille – Capercaillie – which some  of us should recognise …… 
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>From:SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Eugenia Kelbert
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>Dear Emily,
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>Another somewhat more recent bard is Alexander Litvinov, better known as
>Venya Drkin. He died early but left a growing fan base, and he represents
>something of a post-bard use of the genre, with a pronounced rock
>influence, which could be a good addition to the more traditional Gnezdo
>gluharia sort of form. Oh, and maybe Kim for a more humorous take on the
>genre?
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>Best wishes,
>
>Eugenia
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>On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, anne marie devlin <anne_mariedevlin at hotmail.com> wrote: 
>I know it's maybe a bit old, but have you tried Viktor Tsoi and Kino?  I discovered recently that he's still an icon amongst young Russians even today when I was treated to a verse of 'Pachka Sigaret' by a group of 18 - 22 year old - a sort of Kurt Cobain figure.
>AM
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>> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 15:51:38 +0000
>> From: ANTHONY.QUALIN at TTU.EDU 
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>> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Modern-day bards?
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>> Dear Emily,
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>> There is a club in Moscow called Gnezdo glukharia dedicated to avtorskaia pesnia.. Their site http://www.gnezdogluharya.ru/streams concerts regularly. They stage concerts by younger artists as well as by representatives of the older generation such as Veronika Dolina and Alexander Dolskii. 
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>> I would still introduce him to recordings of Vysotsky, Okudzhava, and Bashlachev. They are timeless.
>> 
>> Anthony
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