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Family Reunions: Learn About Your Musical Heritage

August 5, 2015 //  by Linda//  4 Comments

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This is our branch of the four Siblings represented at our Family Reunion

It is family reunion season! Two weekends ago, we had a family reunion on my husband’s side of the family with the oldest living relative and only sibling of his grandma there.

Both sides of the family come from a long tradition of music. I remember my grandpa playing old player piano songs and my mother and all of her 4 siblings were in band. My husband’s family had singers and pianists from way back.

It was fun to hear about their musical adventures at our recent reunion and really fun to have my husband’s “Uncle Bryan” get up and lead a fun round. We contacted him after that to find out where he learned the round called, “Why Doesn’t My Goose”.  He divided us into 4 groups, sang it once and off we went into a 4 part round. Here it is on youtube:

My husband asked him where he learned this from and I did some research on other fun versions and wrote it down in a file for others to use for fun and learning.

 Get it FREE HERE!

Another fun musical thing they did at the reunion was what they called the cousin’s march. My husband’s mother and sister played music called, “Blaze Away” and they had the “cousins” line up in age order. They marched around We asked my husband’s mother about why they did the cousin’s dance. She said that when the cousins were playing and things got too wild, they’d line them up in age order and play “Blaze Away” on the piano while the kids marched around to calm them down.

Here is the youtube video of the cousin’s dance:

It was fun to hear and be involved in some of the family musical traditions. Be sure find out your family musical traditions and write them down!

                                                   

                                                            

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    1. Molly

      August 7, 2015 at 2:11 pm

      I just downloaded your "Why Doesn't My Goose" file on TpT! Thanks so much for the freebie! I really love that your family shares musical traditions! We keep trying to start musical traditions in my family, but it doesn't always pan out, haha! Our renditions of 12 Days of Christmas the last two years have been…interesting, to say the least! #fermatafridays

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      • Linda

        August 8, 2015 at 3:26 am

        Someone has to start them, right? Good for you! 12 days of Christmas is so fun! Keep it up!

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    2. Elizabeth Caldwell

      August 7, 2015 at 5:37 pm

      These are such fun ideas to make family gatherings more musical! I love them all!!! Thanks for sharing. #fermatafridays

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      • Linda

        August 8, 2015 at 3:27 am

        Thanks Elizabeth for doing #fermata Fridays!

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