Yodel!

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:25 am

Here's Nicolas playing in the church again.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:48 am

More Appenzellers. The pub looks familiar.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:07 am

Out in the open this time near the Zugersee - three hours train ride from Appenzell including changing trains, I should think. Zug is the smallest of the full cantons in Switzerland.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Mar 31, 2024 7:54 pm

Here's Nicolas and some of his Appenzeller chums playing a jolly tune for us.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Wed Apr 10, 2024 4:49 pm

This one's real old Appenzeller bierkeller stuff!

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Apr 14, 2024 10:30 am

I have not the slightest idea what this is all about, and I don't know what the clowns have to do with it. The yodelling herdsmen of Appenzell.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:08 pm

You've seen this group before on Page 6; they are from Canton Wallis which the French call Valais. One of them reminds me slightly of the American actor Stacey Keach.

This is from a playlist on YouTube, so if you stick with it there's some more snippets - not necessarily 100% traditional Swiss! In one of them the young people playing the handorgeln look like they got lost on the way to singing the Lumberjack Song with Michael Palin.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:55 am

This group of happy yodellers are from the Spiez area in Canton Bern, by the shores of the Thunersee which I have had the pleasure of traversing on a lake steamer several times.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:40 am

Here they are again, my favourite trio from the Tirol - this time without their hats. Peter shows he can play the accordion as well as the Jaws Harp and handorgel. The title of the tune Freitagsweis translates literally as Friday wise.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Apr 28, 2024 1:03 pm

Today it's the turn of the Alpine Dancers and the Whirling Dirndls from the Tirol in Austria.

Post by **merry** » Tue Apr 30, 2024 7:20 pm

I absolutely loved those, OC.

My god though. When the men start kicking their legs and slapping their feet I was thinking, 'and WE'RE the laughing-stock of the world with our Morris dance?'

Tom took a little video in Kirchdorf the other day he's going to post of a nice Austrian village dance.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Wed May 01, 2024 9:09 am

Here's Nicolas Senn accompanying some friends - they are playing Steiner Chibli. Our Nic is finding it difficult competing with the banjo.

TRavine · Post by **TRavine** » Wed May 01, 2024 9:18 pm

Here is the typical Ländler they danced at the Maypole ceremony this year.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Thu May 02, 2024 5:20 pm

I like that! I see somebody has forgotten their lederhosen and white shirt.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun May 05, 2024 8:44 am

This group are from Grindelwald, up in the Alps from Interlaken.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Thu May 09, 2024 6:28 pm

Jodlerkonig Franzl spends a minute giving the audience their instructions and then starts singing.