The White Boys Carol  (performed by Cliogaree Twoaie)
Channel: Culture Vannin
Date: 2022-12-13

The Manx language choir, Cliogaree Twoaie, perform the White Boys Carol, the song traditionally performed at the end of the Manx mummer's play.

This play, The White Boys (Ny Guillyn Baney), named for its unusual costume, has been performed in public around the Isle of Man for over 200 years and concerns saints fighting, dying and then being resurrected to sing and dance.

More information about the White Boys is here: https://culturevannin.im/manxfolklore/the-white-boys-505782/

This track is released here with the kind permission of Cliogaree Twoaie.
It is from their album, 'Drogh Vraane - and a few men'.
More information about this Manx Gaelic choir based in the north of the Isle of Man can be found here: https://www.manxmusic.com/performer_128534.html

More information about the music and dance of the Isle of Man: https://www.manxmusic.com/

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