Druids' Beltane celebration: the blessing of the May King & Queen.

The second of the video clips shot on Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England during the early hours of May 1st 2008: A celebration of Beltane by The Order of Western Druids.
These clips are in sequence in this video.
At the start, you can see the TV crew which filmed some of this event.

An amazing sense of humour is displayed by the Arch Druidess, Denny; she is the one with the powerful voice ;)
Here you see the blessing, or marriage of the May King and Queen, they take the cup round for all to drink.
The very rhythmic music is led by professional musicians Jana Runnalls and Lydia Lyte, who are also to be seen in the video of the celebrations held at the Chalice Well peace gardens, the video is shown on this channel.

JANA RUNNALLS:

http://www.drum-spirit.com

** Part one of this celebration is available now on Google videos;it was inexplicably taken-down from YouTube.

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2775862469558203323

Part one also available on MySpace in better quality than Google:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=4497...

And on My Facebook profile:

http://www.facebook.com/mikesey

**See the video list for the 2009 Beltane celebration by the Glastonbury Order of Druids, which sadly doesn't seem to be looked at much, but the music is brilliant, played by Jana and others seen here.



Still Hi-Res images of this 2008 event on the Tor may be seen at:
http://family.webshots.com/album/563298163BJHJXq


Feel free to RATE this video.

Regards and love to all who took part in this ceremony.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Beltane
• pagan
• Glastonbury
• Tor
• England
• Druids

[Nyghtshade409]

Oh Goddess, how I'd love to attend such a ceremony....I've never had the chance to participate in anything or really talk to anyone. If I get a chance, I'm going to totally go for it no matter what!

[mikesey1]

@Nyghtshade409

Right on, do it!

[ruiseartalcorn]

Great stuff! Maybe we'll be able to come down and join you sometime :)

Le beannachdan agus dùrachdan (With blessings and good wishes),

Ruiseart - The Gaelic Druid Order (Scotland).

[mikesey1]

Hi there. I'm not sure what maybe happening at Winter Solstice yet!

Thanks for the note, hope to see you.

Mike.

[graemefield01]

Its good to see people keeping alive the old traditions,i may have to attend in 2009!

[mikesey1]

I hope you can attend, too.

Cheers, mate.

[catalyst8]

Great video. Well done to all concerned.

[narcoleptus]

Cracking quality Mike! looks pretty good fullscreen.

[celticbattleaxe]

Man, I miss England and the rest of the British Isles. Brightest blessings from the US

Heddwch!! Blessed be from a solitary Celtic Green Pagan!! )0( )0( )0(

[Frogsmere]

Keeping Ancient Britain Alive...

[sorin1918]

Nice..a theater in open nature

[wcnprincess]

Beautiful! Takes my breath away!