Drink to the Holly Berry is an original Christmas song about that age-old tradition of caroling and begging for booze, basically. Who doesn’t like a good wassailing song at this time of year? The song is from the Christmas album, The Gifts of Midwinter, by Ken and Lisa Theriot. Below are lyrics and notes on […]
Riu Riu Chiu
Riu Riu Chiu appears on Ken and Lisa Theriot’s latest album, The Gifts of Midwinter. You can listen to the song below: Lisa Theriot says: “Ríu, ríu, chíu” is a very popular song, considering it dates from the 16th century and was only seemingly preserved in one copy. Add to that the fact that the […]
Personent Hodie – By Ken And Lisa Theriot
Personent Hodie is the 14th song on The Gifts of Midwinter, the Christmas CD by Ken and Lisa Theriot. Personent Hodie is a Christmas Carol published in 1582 (yay for period music that RAWKS). Here is the the entry from the liner notes (download here!) for the album, written by Lisa Theriot, followed by an […]
Gaudete – By Ken and Lisa Theriot
Gaudete is the 1st song on the Christmas album The Gifts of Midwinter by Ken and Lisa Theriot. A lot of people ask “what does Gaudete mean? Well, the word itself is Latin for “rejoice.” The chorus, “Gaudete, gaudete! Christus est natus Ex Maria virgine, gaudete!” means “Rejoice, rejoice! Christ is born Of the Virgin […]
The Dogs Of War Is Now A Song
Lisa Theriot, who has written the lyrics for all the songs (save the one cover – Queen of Lilies, written by Sherry Kramer and Dave Thewliss) for Ken Theriot’s upcoming album, Outlaws and Bystanders, has been patiently waiting for Ken to finish the songs by composing the music. This has been their song-writing process for […]
Cantique de Noel
Cantique de Noel is the French (and original) version of the popular Christmas carol, O Holy Night. The music was written in 1847 by Adolphe Adam, to go along with the poem Minuit, Chrétiens (which means Midnight, Chistians) written by Placide Cappeau. The song is on The Gifts of Midwinter, by Ken and Lisa Theriot. […]
Do You Hear What I Hear?
When Ken and Lisa’s Christmas album – The Gifts of Midwinter – was being planned, they asked friends and fans what songs they would like to have on the album. At the same time though, they wanted to make sure the songs were not just the same old tunes you hear on every Christmas album. […]
Lisa Theriot’s “Harvest” Live at The Green Dragon
Here is a video from the Ken and Lisa Theriot concert Tuesday night of Gulf Wars XX. This song, Harvest, written by Lisa Theriot is on her album A Turning of Seasons (hear clips from all the tracks on the album here). On the liner notes for this album, Lisa says this about the song: […]
Ken and Lisa Won’t Be At Pennsic But Their Music Will
For the first time in several years, Ken and Lisa Theriot will not be attending Pennsic, the annual event where they normally play live. This is due to several complications with scheduling and numerous other pesky non-musical real-life must-do things. But something actually kind of wonderful happened when they started telling folks they’d be absent […]
Get SCA Music For The Drive to Gulf Wars
It’s a long drive to Gulf Wars and you’re going to want some music, right? Well be sure to check out some of the songs in the widget over there on the right You can get them from iTunes CD Baby as downloads or CDs with the store widget on the right. OR you can […]