Cider Celebration

[Jody Kruskal]

Wassail, wassail all over the town, our cup it is white and our ale it is brown

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/world/europe/england-wassailing-cider-tradition.html

 

https://www.jodykruskal.com/tune_of_the_month/December_2008.html

[hjcjones]

For the benefit of those divided by a common language, in Britain cider is an alcoholic drink, sometimes powerfully so. 

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

I prefer cuppa' tea myself😊

[Kathryn Wheeler]

We go wassailing every year, here in Worcestershire, with Bow Brook Border Morris in local orchards or pubs with apple trees.   The picture of me with concertina has caught me at the end of a song, doing a bit of a flourish with the instrument - I must say I don't play in that position!  20 button anglo is fabulous for accompanying all the Wassail songs.  I did get the piano accordion out for some accompanying of other groups' songs (you know what it's like, people inevitably start singing in A flat or something equally impossible on 20 button).

[Jody Kruskal]

Nice!