Single Song Saturday: Auld Lang Syne (On community, friends, folk and hope)
It's not a new year's song, per se, though traditionally sung at midnight here and abroad. Rather, its message of friendship everlasting after a life well- and long-lived finds voice in, and brings hope and closure to, a multitude of celebrations throughout the English-speaking world, predominantly funerals and other ceremonies of remembrance. I posted a set of covers of Auld Lang Syne back in the waning days of 2009, too. But the Robert Burns poem and its various melodies seem particularly apt this year. For we heard its [...]
- Beta Radio - Auld Lang Syne
- Bill Keith - Auld Lang Syne
- Chris Bathgate - Auld Lang Syne
- Cry Cry Cry - Auld Lang Syne
- Emma & Joyce Beaton With Mairi Campbell and David Francis - Auld Lang Syne
- Joel Rakes - Auld Lang Syne (Sad)
- Kate Taylor - Auld Lang Syne ("Just One Ange
- Lord Huron - Auld Lang Syne
- Sam Billen - Auld Lang Syne
- The Points North - Auld Lang Syne (traditional New Year's song)
- The White Hat - Auld Lang Syne
- Vandaveer - auld lang syne




















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