Meester Stoorworm from Scotland and W.B. Yeats We celebrate the Autumn Equinox with some amazing pieces of music, a poem by W B Yeats and a traditional Scottish folk-tale. The tale is the Meester Stoorworm which tells of a poor boy made good - a typical fairy tale from Celtic lands. The W B Yeats poem is the Rider from the North from Yeats' book In the Seven Woods. Full show notes, details and Contributor pages over at our main Website at http://celticmythpodshow.com/autumn2008 Running Order: Intro 0:40 News & Views 1:20 The Autumn Equinox 2:18 Faerie Night  by Jacqui Callis 5:12 The Rider from the North by W. B. Yeats 8:15 Light by Sora 11:40 The Meester Stoorworm by Katherine Pyle 14:40 Morgana by Kellianna 37:29 Feedback - Ann 39:58 Promo - British History 101 41:36 Promo - From the Edge of the Circle 43:25 Outtakes 44:43 We hope you enjoy it! Gary & Ruthie x x Released: 20th September 2008, 47m   We love to hear from you! Please email garyandruth@celticmythpodshow.com, or call us using Speakpipe News & Views We talk about all the different types of Celtic groups on the Internet and invite groups to contact us so that we can build up a contact list for them.    The Autumn Equinox We investigate the meanings of the Autumn Equinox - the time of equal day and night. Also known as Mabon and Alban Elfed. Known by the Americans as Harvest Home.   Faerie Night by Jacqui Callis Faerie Night is a powerful faerie song written and performed by Jacqui Callis from a poem by friend and author Suzan Caroll. Although available to download individually, it is from a collection of original songs called Soul Vagabond. The CD features 18 songs with a Celtic/folksy/multidimensional feel, written, or co-written, by Jacqui - some are unaccompanied voice and harmonies and others feature: fiddle, dulcimer, pedal steel, slide, lead and rhythm guitars, banjo and double bass.  See her Myspace page and hear more music or visit her homepage, Soul Vagabond. You can find out more details about Jacqui on her Contributor Page on our website.    The Rider from the North by W. B. Yeats W. B. Yeats William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and English literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, and served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation;" and he was the first Irishman so honored. Maud Gonne Originally published in the Weekly Critical Review on 4th June 1903, The Rider from the North was later called The Happy Townland. This poem was read from In The Seven Woods which can be found at Sacred Texts, subtitled Being poems chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age.    Light by Sora Sora (aka Andrea Hunt) is an independent musician with a different philosophy on how she wants to share her music with the world. Perhaps it was all of the touring she did as a teenager with the Calgary Youth Orchestra and the Calgary Fiddlers that made her appreciate the subtleties of having a solid home base. It may have been the influence of playing with elite musicians and performing to sell out crowds that seeded her desire to mold a new musical lifestyle. Her natural flair for Celtic vocal styling leaps out in her 2003 debut CD “Winds Of Change”. On this self produced project all 13 tracks were recorded live off the floor. “What you hear is what we did” Sora says. “Everyone was in the same small room at the same time”. The arrangements for each song were chosen specifically because they were so different from anything she had ever heard – which gave her the chance to put her heart