• The Old Swan Band is a long-established and influential English country dance band. Its origins lie in the early 1970s with the English country dance band...
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    Swans are an American experimental rock band formed in 1982 by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. One of the few acts to emerge...
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  • Old Swan Band, an English country dance band. Old Swan Brewery, in Perth, Western Australia. Old Swan Hotel, in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Old Swan,...
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    Old Swan is an eastern neighbourhood of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, bordered by Knotty Ash, Stoneycroft, Broadgreen, Fairfield and Wavertree. At the...
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  • Cèilidh (redirect from Céilí Band)
    traditional, like the Old Swan Band, to the most experimental like the electronic dance music-influenced Monster Ceilidh Band. Many other forms of music...
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  • Swan For The Money is an album by the Old Swan Band. "The Green-Clad Hills/ Jimmy Garson's March" (Trad/ Trad) A tune collected in Orkney by Peter Kennedy...
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  • Swan-Upmanship is an album by the Old Swan Band. Although these (mostly) obscure tunes come from England, Ireland, Scotland, France and Sweden, the band...
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  • later became the Old Swan Band. After a few years, they left the Old Swan Band, and Stradling recorded with the English Country Blues Band, the English Country...
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    Sue Harris (category The Albion Band members)
    [citation needed] She performed on both instruments with the Albion Country Band on their debut album Battle of the Field (1976), and also recorded and performed...
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    Swan Lake (Russian: Лебеди́ное о́зеро, romanized: Lebedínoje ózero, IPA: [lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə] listen), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer...
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  • The Wild Swans are a post-punk band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1980 shortly after Paul Simpson left The Teardrop Explodes. The band's personnel...
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  • Kirsty McGee Ralph McTell Pete Morton Mumford and Sons Simon Nicol Old Swan Band Beth Orton Oysterband Roo Panes Passenger Brian Peters Maddy Prior John...
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    of The Old Swan Band No Reels (1977) Old Swan Brand (1979) Gamesters, Pickpockets and Harlots (1981) The Old Swan Band (1983) Still Swanning After All...
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    The "swan maiden" story is a name in folkloristics used to refer to three kinds of stories: those where one of the characters is a bird-maiden, in which...
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  • Ackomokki or A-ca-oo-mah-ca-ye) (Blackfoot syllabics: ᖳᖿ ᖱᒍᑊᖿᔪ, meaning Old Swan), was the name of three Siksiká chiefs between the late 1700s and 1860...
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  • Oak members Rod and Danny Stradling moved to Cheltenham forming the Old Swan Band and initiating the English Country Music Weekends which started at Cricklade...
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    John Kirkpatrick (musician) (category Brass Monkey (band) members)
    ex Albion Band, Home Service), Dave Berry (electric bass, double bass, tuba) and Paul Burgess (fiddle, recorders – from the Old Swan Band). They made...
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    James are an English rock band from Manchester, formed in 1982. They achieved popularity during the 1990s, with four top-10 hits on the UK Singles Chart...
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  • melodeon) and Danny Stradling (percussion) - newly parted from the Old Swan Band - were asked to join, and John Gill changed from fiddle to bass. With...
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    The story of the Knight of the Swan, or Swan Knight, is a medieval tale about a mysterious rescuer who comes in a swan-drawn boat to defend a damsel,...
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  • his mother greatly, as her maiden name was Swan, as well as her mother's. An earlier version of "The Old School Off The Bright" was originally featured...
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    Swan Lee is a Danish indie rock band consisting of singer Pernille Rosendahl, guitarist Jonas Struck and drummer Emil Jørgensen. Swan Lee has released...
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  • form, gave licence to all sorts of creative cavorting. Of these new bands, Old Swan Band, Flowers and Frolics, Umps and Dumps, Pump and Pluck seemed to concentrate...
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  • Swans Way were a three-piece English pop group formed in Birmingham in late 1981. The band comprised Robert Shaw (vocals), Maggie De Monde (vocals and...
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  • him play, he was inspired to form a series of bands to play the old style music. Of these, the Old Swan Band still thrives. The accompanying book to the...
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  • traditional Gaelic Ceilidh on 17 September featured band One Short including Flos Headford of the Old Swan Band, Chris “Yorkie” Bartram of All Backed Up and...
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    swan place-name cluster in Australia: Upper Swan, Middle Swan, Swan Valley, Swan View, West Swan, Swan Estuary, Swan District, and the City of Swan....
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  • simplification by shortening the band's name to T. Rex. The new sound was more pop-oriented, and the first single, "Ride a White Swan" recorded in July and released...
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  • refusing to play old material, the last track from The Firm, "Midnight Moonlight", was originally an unreleased Led Zeppelin song entitled "Swan Song". This...
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    Swan River is a town in Manitoba, Canada. It is surrounded by the Municipality of Swan Valley West in the Swan River Valley region. According to the 2021...
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