End of an era, start of another

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I had expected to run off a blog report for last week's Dragon Folk Club session quickly on Monday or Tuesday, but other commitments ensured that didn't happen, so here I am on Thursday evening with another session imminent tomorrow and what's more Queen Elizabeth II has just died.

I realise our followers represent a broad church on all spectra, not least the monarchist / republican one, but I suspect we all recognise that today is an important one in the history of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and to some extent the world. We don't know exactly what will change and what will remain the same any more than we do following any major event, but we will all watch, listen and maybe for some of us play our small part.

Just now let's recognise that a family is grieving, and many people in this country and in other countries are also grieving in their own ways.

Three of us gathered last Friday to sing a wide variety of songs, traditional as well as from the works of Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Show of Hands, Fred Wedlock and Donovan among others. We will meet again this week, hopefully in greater numbers to sing again.

Now listen to a selection of songs sung during this session.

(Number of people present - 3 of whom 3 performed)