The Bear Dance | Folk tunes in the garden

The wonderful tune The Bear Dance! Three musicians from the popular Mid Wales ceilidh band Sir Dancelot play The Bear Dance in our garden in June 2021. The sound was recorded live in the garden.

Cornelius Eger - mandolin
Graham Brand - anglo concertina
Peter Timmins - fiddle

The Bear Dance

According to The Session website The Bear Dance is also known as Berendans, Dance Of The Bears, The Dancing Bear, Danse De L’Ours, Danza Del Oso, Danza Del Osu, Danza’l Osu, Krebbel, La Danse De L’ours, Planting The Maypole, Polka D’Ours.

It is a traditional folk tune, a polka, believed to be Flemish in origin, although versions can be found all around Europe. It can also be danced as a group dance.

[irishborsch]

they play so wiby in such a beautiful garden, but at the same time they get so much pleasure and it turns out to be so high... and this beautiful garden around... they are like monks who practice peace of mind without aspirations and pretensions... some kind of irishfolk zen

[adams]

Cute celtic take on a medieval dance tune.

[jesusescudero]

I wish there were more channels like yours

[Cailean_MacCoinnich]

This is excellent. It's the first melody to learn for LCME grade1 Ukulele exam.
Fortunately the requirement of the exam is a slightly simpler melody and played at about half the speed.
It is great to hear it played by professionals.

[trainsimworldexploration]

Peter's hair has grown alot in the last year!

[Likes_Trains]

FANTASTIC! This has been my baby's favourite tune since she was born so marvellous to find another recording :D What a peaceful atmosphere, thanks for sharing!

[thomasrimmington]

This is great, love the variations and harmonies on the mandolin.

[Llanigraham]

Nice to hear Llani music again.
Graham2.

[ronmarkell]

Love the music and really love the garden shots.

[CalSprigley]

Beautiful garden, even more beautiful music!

[lauravh]

Amazing. Greetings from Netherlands (: