"La Foliage" Variations on La Folia for ukulele with scenes of autumn trees

The story of "La Folia" is a remarkable one. La Folia is an ancient chord progression from Renaissance Portugal which has fascinated composers throughout history. An estimated 350 composers have created works that either allude to or are variations on the La Folia theme. Some of the more famous composers to do this are Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Salieri, Corelli, and Vivaldi. Beethoven's 5th Symphony is said to quote La Folia in the second movement. This web site has an exhaustive amount of info on it, including all the composers know to have tackled it: http://www.folia.tk/

This is a video of me simply noodling around with the chord progression. It's not very good. But the scenes of Lanesville, Indiana, at the peak of the fall season is worth watching.

I want to "challenge" any ukuleleist who's watching this to create a video playing around with La Folia. Personally, I'm intrigued to know what ukuleleoversoul, KenMiddletonUkulele, Ukeval, Sheepstar15 and LeoHareMusic would do with it. Guys?
: )

Here's the chord progression in Dm:
Dm - A7 - Dm - C - F - C - Dm -A7
Dm - A7 - Dm - C - F - C - Dm / A7- Dm


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[JazzRisk]

What kind is that?

[UKISOCIETY]

The ukulele is a Mainland red cedar tenor.

[FoliesEspagne]

Thank you so much UKSociety for the Folia (Folies d'Espagne) challenge indeed and on one of my favorite instruments. If there is someone on the craddle of small plucked instruments and La Folia it is Bill Kilpatrick with at least four versions and LeoHare as well. Can I please make a link to all those new Folias at the page you mentioned? Yes I try to collect them for more than a decade. Fascinating how so many different versions can be produced on such a small gem.

[UKISOCIETY]

Gracias! Yes, please link to this video. It's a very versatile chord progression.

[krabbers]

i say old chap, that is quite superb

[UKISOCIETY]

Thank you, sir, and welcome back. I think you would do well responding to LeoHareMusic's challenge to write a song on this progress.

ciao!

[hoosierhiver]

Back again

[faithtruthlove07]

very lovely!! could listen to this all day and night long

[julianmartin10]

What a great idea - saw Kens rendition and then checked this video out and had a crack at the progression myself, it sounds beautiful even just from an improv point of view!

[reyalpEleluku]

fine work!