Perfect Boxing Day, out to Grenoside for the famed longsword and mulled wine, then the race over to Dungworth for the last Royal village carols of the year. All on a bright blue day. Hope you’re having a good day, wherever you are. #folk #folkcustoms #tradition #grenoside #dungworth #longsword #villagecarols #sheffield #ritual

https://www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/p/hark-the-hardcore-carollers-sing #villagecarols #sheffield

https://open.substack.com/pub/thetribune/p/hark-the-hardcore-carollers-sing?r=19nkut&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post #villagecarols #sheffield

#loxleyvalley #sheffield #winterwalk to #villagecarols earlier today

#villagecarols #sheffield singing with good friends down at Shakespeare’s last night

#villagecarols #dungworth #sheffieldcarols Will Noble sings Mistletoe Bow

@danielpebrace It's interesting to compare this discussion within a church context to the religious music I'm involved in: #SacredHarp/ #ShapeNote singing and traditional English #VillageCarols, both in secular settings and mainly sung by atheists.
Approaching the music as more of a "folk" tradition makes it easier to accept some texts as drawing from a cultural/historical context that the singers don't need to share. But there are limits: the Sacred Harp is currently editing the next edition and removing some texts for more straightforward misogyny, antisemitism, and colonialism. For now I think they're planning to keep texts like Jezemiah Sumner's extremely Manifest Destiny-esque "Ode on Science" (attached), which I think works in a music-focused setting but which would be more objectionable in a church context.