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Last update: March 24, 2010

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photo by Steph

photo by Steph

photo by Steph
Jonathan Harding is not just an adorable elf looking man - his voice is clear and lovely as one would expect from the elven kind. The songs he writes are very heart felt and just the kind I love. Each day he did a set in the fields and sang a song at each of the feasts. I only managed a few photos with Steph's camera, and the bright window behind him sort of makes the lighting odd I was too busy listening anyway... completley enchanted. I didn't manage to get a CD... I'm kicking myself. Perhaps I'll get another chance some day.

photo by Steph

photo by Ian
In the hotel lobby Paul blessed us with his beautiful playing. Sunday night he also played during a jam session with some of the other musical cast members. When I first met Peter Tait at Orc in January we discovered a common love - singing. And in the months between the cons, we searched for a song for the two of us to do together. We finally decided on a song that he wrote. It is called "Lady of Shallot" and is inspired by this painting by Waterhouse. Click HERE to listen to the chorus part I've recorded as I remember the melody

Lady of Shallot
by Peter Tait


photo by Ian

photo by Ian

photo by Ian
Lady of Shallot
I'm afraid a lot has changed
The waterways you drifted through
Are damned and re-arranged
The Thames, well now that river
Is a slow and sluggish hoar
Scum gathers lazy on it's shores

chorus

Where are the trees
The whispered breeze
Where are the songs
That filled the air
Why do you stare
Why do you stare
Why do you stare?

Lady of Shallot
I'm afraid your lot has changed
Those years spent in the painting
Have left you slightly deranged
Your dress I fear is mildewed
You smell of petulie and candlewax
The painting is a graveyard
I must dig you up

chorus

Perhaps it's better you stayed
Up there on the gallery wall
Looking languidly lost and so forlorn
If you came out
there'd just be problems
I wouldn't know what to say
Maybe you're better off
Where you are.

More photos from the talented and hilarious Fellowship Feast performers
can be found at the following links:

Neueste's Gallery