Do You Enjoy Your Country's Traditional Music?

[classicrawker]

Love Blue Grass and old country music

[izzygirl]

The traditional music of my region (not what people usually expect from Spain):

Galicia and Ireland side by side.

Edited October 20, 2012 by izzygirl

[Graeme]

Ignore the somewhat cliche shortbread-tin-heather-mist-and-roaming-in-the-gloaming video... Deeds (if you're still reading), that's maybe not your traditional Piobaireachd with the keys/drums/guitars but I really love it, does your disdain for Ceol Mor extend to that particular piece?

[Graeme]

This has all the hairs on my arms standing up. I wonder if I would appreciate it were I not Scottish... I suppose chances are I'd never even encounter it.

[Guest Len B'stard]

What like Chas & Dave? Music Hall stuff?

[DieselDaisy]

You cannot beat a bit of Greensleeves.

[SR_GR]

"This has all the hairs on my arms standing up. I wonder if I would appreciate it were I not Scottish... I suppose chances are I'd never even encounter it."

Yes. I can hear the soul of Scotland in that music; it is beautiful, floating and uplifting.

I get emotional about every time I listen to the music in the link below and this music does it too.

This is the sound of our soul and the sound of the mother earth here, Finlandia by Jean Sibelius:

From 5:30 starts a familiar melody to a lot of people.

You probably know this melody better with these lyrics:

The soul of Spain is in Izzygirl’s examples. I have always loved the pride, passion and style of the Spanish people.