The Butcher Boy from a Russian, English, Irish & Scottish folk perspective

Koleso is a group of women singers and dancers from St Petersburg, Russia.

In this video they sing a Russian Folk song called "Skagi-skagi". We know this song at "The Butcher Boy"

Anastasia Ploshkina is the director of the show and she describes the song here:
In researching their show based on Russian folk music and dance, Koleso have uncovered an extraordinary ancient and poignant link between the ordinary people of Russia and England.

Deep in the Russian countryside in a very remote village, they found a very old woman called Olga Sergeeva. After her daughter died, tragically, Olga Sergeeva never spoke another word for 10 years and then amazingly she began to sing, and sing ancient Russian songs passed down to her through the generations with a tender mellow timbre that moved any who heard it to tears. Koleso were intrigued by one of her songs, "Skagi-skagi". After much research, they found extraordinarily that this song from the remote heart of Russia was based on the English song In London City which they now include in their show."

We were interested in recording this song for our Wyllie O Hagan St Patricks Day Film Festival 2009 - O Hagan thinking it was an Irish folk song. From information we read online it's origins is in England.
Either way, it's a delightful performance.

Thanks to Koleso and C Venues in Edinburgh for granting Wyllie O Hagan permission to film the performance.

For more information on Koleso go to:
http://www.folk-show.ru




Enjoy
Wyllie O Hagan

http://www.wyllieohagan.com
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[katekakes]

wow thanks 

[wyllieohagan]

@katekakes All the best:)

[coconut994777]

This is one of my favorite English/Irish songs, and the Russian in this is gorgeous! ♥

[wyllieohagan]

@coconut994777 That's good to hear, thank you for your comments. All the best to you:)

[manmuse126]

Thanks very much nice song ;-)

[wyllieohagan]

Thanks to you too for watching. We went to St Petersburg in Russia last month and met up with this group of women again. They showed us around and we had such a lovely time with them.

Wishing you all the best.

[clarebannerman]

Very very beautiful.--- But then again Russia is such a beautiful country & people.♥

[plattform5163]

So nice and peaceful,thanks for sharing!

[Lu3Zak]

Русская, or Irish, or English ? Do I really care...

when three minutes went by enchanted...

and melody still echoed, I don't remember...

in which language did I cry...

[lewis1936]

Good music is truly universal.

[bluereflektor]

Super! Excellent video!

[SFtruckerWolf]

@wyllieohagan Karelia, land what was stolen from Finland.

[pepper54100]

russian women voitce ollwayss greate .Very  good