Monday, March 30, 2020

Come send me your May songs

It's almost April, so time for me to start compiling your May songs. The idea is that I will publish one per day during the merry month of May - although that depends, of course, on how many I receive.

To help me to schedule our May calendar please let me know, as soon as you can, if you are planning to send me a song (or songs). Then, once you have your song recorded, send me your mp3, mp4 or a link to where you have it online, plus any notes, photos, lyrics, personal stories relating to the song - where you first heard it; who sang it; why you wrote it...etc.

Thanks everyone - looking forward to this!

Steve

May Day at Ickwell - from Ickwell May Day - A Brief History

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

CMLE Play - What's this all about?


I love May songs - always have. So I thought that during this time when many people are confined to their homes it would be good if we could share some of these wonderful songs and cheer each other up.

So, what is a May song? I don't have a definition, but if it begins "As I walked out one morning in May" or it mentions lambs a-springing, birds a-singing, dancing round maypoles, Morris dancers, fertility rites...then it's probably a May song. It might be traditional. It might be written by Pink Floyd, the Bee Gees or it could be one that you have just come up with. Let's have some fun with this!

My aim is to publish one song per day in May - both on this blog page and in the Facebook group. You can either send your mp3s to me or let me have a link to where you have them posted (i.e Reverb, Soundcloud, Youtube, etc). If you have lyrics and/or stories about the song that would be great too.

Free games for May. CMLE Play.