Hurdy-gurdy

One more shot from Saturday's festival. In Poland we don't celebrate birth day, only name day. This festival is organized on the name day of the poet Jan Kochanowski, and is a literary meeting. Anna Raskolnikov plays the hurdy-gurdy and sings Polesie songs. Polesie is a huge area of ​​forests and swamps and many secrets and legends. Currently, this area lies territorially in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. The forest no longer exists, the peat bogs have been drained, but legends about this area still circulate.

[julia]

Interesting looking instrument..

[Beryl Lloyd]

So that is the Hurdy-gurdy - a word familiar to me from childhood ( in Welsh! ) as an adjective of something going fast -- but had no idea what it was ,let alone what the instrument looked like !! Never too old to learn ! A lovely shot !

[Christina]

I have never seen anything like it, or heard the name. great shot

[Joan Robillard]

Fabulous

[Corinne C]

A nice capture of this artist with a unique instrument.

[~*~ Jo ~*~]

Lovely shot - not seen or heard of a Hurdy-Gurdy in years.

[Zilli]

Interesting

[Suzanne]

Wonderful shot with a great backstory. Moving.

[Nigel Rogers]

Great shot, an unusual instrument.

[Mags]

What a marvelous musical instrument and capture.

[Diana]

What a fabulous way to celebrate! Lovely candid and I am sure the music was good too.

[JAKB]

Really interesting to learn about this.

[Wylie]

Lovely shot of this activity

[Barb]

Great capture and fascinating info!

[Wendy]

A hurdy is not found often these days. This is fabulous! It deserves far more favs. Excellent!

[Taffy]

That's really interesting -- both your narrative and the instrument which I've never seen before.

[mittens (Marilyn)]

Great capture and so interesting.

[Jerzy]

I've only heard of Hurdy-gurdy in a Donovan song so this is very interesting narrative for me. I wonder how this instrument sounds. Great shot.

[Kathy]

I've never seen a musical instrument one like this.Nice portrait of the musician. Now I'm humming Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man".

[Kate]

I checked out a video to hear the hurdy-gurdy. It has a cool and unique sound.

[carol white]

A lovely capture. Fav 😊

[Margaret Brown]

A lovely capture and back story

[Judith Johnson]

I've always wondered what a hurdy gurdy looked like. What a lovely way to celebrate

[Christine Sztukowski]

Wonderful

[haskar]

@365projectorgchristine @busylady @craftymeg @carolmw @k9photo @randystreat @jerzyfotos @mittens @taffy @photohoot @bjywamer @pusspup @jakb @ludwigsdiana @marlboromaam @nigelrogers @ankers70 @zilli @ziggy77 @corinnec @christinav @beryl @julzmaioro I have attached a link to the video on You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_bu8FOeR8
A folk song about an old woman and a young peasant sung in a white voice.

[Peter Dulis]

Nice

[Wendy]

@haskar Thanks for the video. Now to find a translation. Very nice.

[KV]

Interesting.

[Shutterbug]

Beautiful capture of the musician.

[Heather]

This is fascinating to see and hear (thank you for the youtube link)! A great capture of this musician and great background information! Fav

[Kathy]

The instrument sounds so much like a bagpipe. Thanks for sending the link for the video.

[KWind]

Super shot!

[Diane]

I've heard of a hurdy-gurdy but never seen one. Good shot!

[Karen]

Wonderful photograph! Ive heard of a hurdy-gurdy in a song, but have never taken the time to know what it really is! Loved the video. Fascinating narrative, too - Polesie sounds a fascinating place to research.

[Call me Joe]

❤️🥰❤️

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Fascinating instrument and history. Her looks match the magical quality of what she does- sort of a playful elfin look- very happy. Great shot!