Civil War Medley played on Mountain Dulcimer

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  • Опубліковано 30 жов 2024

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  • @stalstonestacy4316
    @stalstonestacy4316 5 років тому +11

    I found this today. My family is moving out of state to find better work. We don't want to leave our beautiful mountains and Appalachian heritage but we will take much of it with us in that place in our souls where what we truly are resides deeply rooted in that secret and sacred place. We wIll take with us the music of the mountain and the language of our people to that endless prairie with the wind that never stops. And on a warm spring night when the stars sing with the voice of the dulcimer, mandolin and fiddle and echoes out across the plain until it meets that old mountain in the darkness we will again be HOME.

    • @natdmc85
      @natdmc85 4 роки тому

      Keep the memory alive, you may get it back some day.

  • @claudettethomas5921
    @claudettethomas5921 8 років тому +15

    i am Claudette from new Zealand. How lovely is your music. It is evening here and the sun is going down on our Mountains as i listen to your playing. thank You

    • @gwentland1
      @gwentland1  8 років тому

      claudette thomas Thank You for your nice comment. I think that you are from the furthest away so far.

  • @jackmorgan3498
    @jackmorgan3498 7 років тому +2

    If this dosen't hit you in the heart, you might better see if it's still beating. Beautiful!

    • @gwentland1
      @gwentland1  7 років тому

      Thank You Jack. I am glad I touched you with my playing.

  • @patriotj5426
    @patriotj5426 6 років тому +1

    Beautiful haunting melodies evoking visions of a bygone era. We Americans must remember that when it comes to the Civil War that no matter which side your ancestors were on that we are them and they are us. That is what made that conflict so tragic. A miserable feud within our own family.

  • @SnagilRadio
    @SnagilRadio 11 років тому +3

    Beautiful, haunting, evocative. A worthy tribute to the times.

  • @maryfrance9783
    @maryfrance9783 8 років тому +11

    Superbly played and deeply emotional. Great playing by a true artist on a fine traditional American instrument.

  • @jomcdavid7474
    @jomcdavid7474 9 років тому +3

    Music is food for the soul and this is a feast.

  • @travelingbairknits
    @travelingbairknits 3 роки тому

    Beautiful George!

  • @vivlee3840
    @vivlee3840 6 років тому +2

    Beautiful and so moving. Love the playing and the historical photographs. Thank you so much for doing such a wonderful job.

  • @debbyconyers8678
    @debbyconyers8678 11 років тому +2

    So beautiful, sad and deeply touching--the dulcimer has a sound quality like no other.
    Few people know about the POW camp near Chicago that housed thousands of southern soldiers, who were purposely starved and mistreated in very cruel ways.

  • @dkstryker
    @dkstryker 8 років тому +8

    that was absolutely beyond beautiful I could listen to that all day! God bless you!

  • @MadRushMusic
    @MadRushMusic 9 років тому +2

    Brought tears to my eyes.. Wonderful playing....

  • @bethbishop3044
    @bethbishop3044 10 років тому +3

    I thought of my grandparents, my home in SW Virginia...and I cried.

  • @americandestinations9710
    @americandestinations9710 8 років тому +9

    I am a yankee by birth and a southerner by choice and You sir have done wonderful with the music you have played. Bravo and keep it up

  • @nathanielmerritt2450
    @nathanielmerritt2450 12 років тому +2

    Gorgeously evocative and spiritual. Thank you.

  • @robertnewlon1797
    @robertnewlon1797 7 років тому +3

    So beautiful and peaceful !!!

  • @WillieBeard
    @WillieBeard 8 років тому +4

    Ashokan Farewell just always make my eyes well up...well played and enjoyable medley.

    • @terriebrader7009
      @terriebrader7009 6 років тому

      Phil - probably my all time favorite Civil War song- (Thank you Ken Burns.) I adore listening to you play.

    • @char4him99
      @char4him99 6 років тому

      So beautiful. I listen to this song all the time. Ashokan Farewell Wish I could play it.

    • @katherinekey50
      @katherinekey50 5 років тому

      Always me cry, too.

  • @hikerx9366
    @hikerx9366 4 роки тому

    Beautifully done... Thank you.

  • @majean63303
    @majean63303 5 років тому

    Thanks, George. That was really lovely. Inspires me to get my dulcimer out and return to making music.

  • @debraduke5072
    @debraduke5072 11 років тому +1

    So beautiful!! It makes my soul happy! I play the dulcimer too and am learning Ashokan's farewell. Thank you so much!!

  • @Jcondyeckerle
    @Jcondyeckerle 6 років тому +1

    Very nice, thank you for putting this up. Makes me want to get myself a dulcimer and learn to play it.

  • @ElPresidenteGeneralisimo
    @ElPresidenteGeneralisimo 11 років тому +1

    Love it, almost cried several times. Very well done

  • @carolynfleming7885
    @carolynfleming7885 11 років тому +1

    very nice job loved the pictures and the songs.

  • @emanracing95
    @emanracing95 7 років тому +1

    Beautiful music! Salutations from the New Mexico wilderness! :)

  • @SinHsv
    @SinHsv 12 років тому +1

    Whoooo . . . that anecdote gave me chills! I visited Andersonville years ago, and I have often wondered why the conditions were allowed to get so hellish.

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  13 років тому +1

    Andersonville POW camp was a wall surrounding a 15 acre open field. No shelters were provided. It was open for 14 months. 45,000 Union Soldiers were imprisoned there, of which 14,000 died. Many of the ones who survived looked similar to holocost survivors.

  • @jeremymoorer7033
    @jeremymoorer7033 4 роки тому +2

    Long live Dixie!

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  13 років тому +3

    One of the miracles of Andersonville was Providence Spring. Many of the prisoners were dying, do to poor water quality from unsanitary conditions, and the men were praying for fresh drinkable water. A storm came up, and lightning struck the hillside releasing a spring of fresh water for the soldiers to drink (Providence Spring).

  • @denisenadeau5243
    @denisenadeau5243 4 роки тому

    beautiful

  • @appflutes
    @appflutes 10 років тому +1

    Beautiful. Thanks...

  • @wrm12862
    @wrm12862 12 років тому +3

    All of it was great, but I especially enjoyed " Ashokan Farewell"

    • @DontNo4Sure
      @DontNo4Sure 2 роки тому

      But it isn't a Civil War song it wasn't composed until 1982

  • @docwilkey
    @docwilkey 10 років тому +1

    I really enjoyed this, thanks.

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  11 років тому +4

    MrJake985 you absolutely right. During the Civil War there was no such thing as a humane prison.

  • @patricksherrill9034
    @patricksherrill9034 10 років тому +1

    Great video! Well done sir!

  • @TheBanjopilot
    @TheBanjopilot 9 років тому +1

    I have little to no chance of seeing you in person. I strongly encourage you to make a video of the songs with your comments, on how you play so beautifully. I am a multi-instrumentalist who built dulcimers at "Hughes Dulcimer Company" in Denver CO many years ago. This is some of the loveliest music I have heard of a dulcimer. Well done, well done! I am sure with the many means to capture your music to video, you need but ask someone who would do it at no cost to you, maybe sharing the instrument to many who have never heard of a dulcimer.

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  12 років тому

    Thank You Nathaniel

  • @johnlanders5904
    @johnlanders5904 5 років тому +2

    try to give somebody somethin and they want yours too.
    fuwee!
    God blessed the South period.
    Aris

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  9 років тому +3

    Thank You for your nice comments.

  • @waverider6kj32
    @waverider6kj32 7 років тому +14

    English by birth, Southerner in my heart. to many lies said about the Southern states.

    • @gwentland1
      @gwentland1  7 років тому +5

      Neither side was squeaky clean. There were lots of atrocities during this part of history, but to me this is history that one can sink ones teeth into. Never before or since in our history has so many people lost their lives fighting each other and on occasion their own family members.

    • @williamerichmond9512
      @williamerichmond9512 4 роки тому

      @@gwentland1 I had three great-great-grandfathers shooting at each other from 100 yds away at Wilson's Creek and Pea Ridge.

  • @gwentland1
    @gwentland1  12 років тому

    Thank You sailwed1

  • @lindabowshier8059
    @lindabowshier8059 Місяць тому +1

    Is that bowed dulcimer for sale? I am hunting for one! I so admired Dr Hambas😊❤️

    • @gwentland1
      @gwentland1  Місяць тому

      I do not have a bowed dulcimer. There is not a bowed dulcimer in the video.

  • @Ellietiger1
    @Ellietiger1 9 років тому +1

    Where are these photos taken? I recognize some of the buildings.... But the one photo that got me, was the fountain in the garden surrounded by the white fence. I could have sworn it was Prescott Park, in Portsmouth, NH. That's where I call home, and I've been away overseas for a while now. Just made me a touch a homesick. Not to mention the music.... which reminds me of Blue Ridge Mountains, where I spent many happy years.

    • @rhmakoto
      @rhmakoto 9 років тому +2

      +Ellietiger1 The pictures are from Spring Mill st part in Indiana

  • @charlesharrell7254
    @charlesharrell7254 11 років тому +2

    Love the music, just sorry so many folks get hung up on a tragic war that took place 150 years ago. Ruined it for the rest us that just wanted let the artist know how much we enjoyed his work.

  • @rickybrown3243
    @rickybrown3243 5 років тому

    What songs were played in your medley? Awsome.

  • @MrJake985
    @MrJake985 11 років тому +4

    The northern states had their hell hole prisons as well as the south. Some as bad or worse then Andersonville. But the North won so we don't get to hear about them.

    • @RalphReagan
      @RalphReagan 7 років тому +2

      MrJake985 more confederates died than yankees too

    • @timmysmith5464
      @timmysmith5464 5 років тому

      @@RalphReagan mabey in prison

    • @Anonomush_oranges
      @Anonomush_oranges 4 роки тому +1

      Still butt hurt after 155 years?

  • @Euromantique
    @Euromantique 11 років тому +1

    What were the Southerners to do? The lacked supplies to feed their own armies, let alone cowardly Yankees!

  • @jlittle005
    @jlittle005 11 років тому

    And people wonder why the south lost