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Absolutely! Especially on the meseta in my opinion. I will never forget singing Janis Joplin songs at the top of my lungs with no one around to hear except my daughter who got some of it on video and says she will use it to blackmail me some day if necessary! Lol
Definitely! I felt such a sense of freedom when I walked the Camino Frances earlier this year. When I walked along stretches near busy roads, I often indulged in Camino Karaoke and (Camino) pole dancing!Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
Yes, yes, yesIs it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
ooh! So looking forward to my first next year!Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
[/QUOTE For sure! George Michael and Elton John and Lucas Nelson at the top of my voice got me through many a quiet road
Singing the at the top of my lungs on some long uphill slogs was the only thing that got me through sometimes! Go for it!
Yes, let's go for it~Singing the at the top of my lungs on some long uphill slogs was the only thing that got me through sometimes! Go for it!
Absofrigginlutely!!! Plan on doing both myself.
Absofrigginlutely!!! Plan on doing both myself.
You are encouraging people. That's so nice~The highlights of my camino this autumn were aural. The wake up chant at Roncesvalles where we started, and the amazing reveille at La Campana in Espinosa del Camino. Birdsong in the early morning light.
Then by chance we came to Santo Domingo de la Calzada on the day that a special mass and concert were being held to commemorate one thousand years since the saints death. There was a visiting choir which sang more wonderful Gregorian chant.
On our penultimate day, in the church of San Juan de Ortega, a young man walked in and stood in front of the shrine and just sang. It felt like he was singing his heart out to the glory of God.
I was glad to come across him walking the following day, and he said he was diffident about singing as he thought other people might not like it. I hope my thanks encouraged him to sing more along the Way. He was from Mexico, and hoping to make a living in Europe from his voice.
Such glory.
One of the reasons I prefer to walk alone so that I can sing my way along.
Yes but in my case as i am sadly tone deaf and too embarrassed to ever inflict my voice on anyone ,in the middle of the road as loud as possible, and again as most people seem to ,whilst on the meseta.
I am dancing sevillanas every tuesday for more than 10 years at a bar in Madrid. Two hours of fun and exercice with my so-called "skool style" but a bit improved after so much time of practice.The first dance they teach is called sevillanas, more a folk dance. We danced it together somewhere near Zubiri.
I got to dance it again on my second camino in Fromista, that time with live guitar!
Only on the camino!!!❤
Maybe one day we’ll meet up in the camino and we will dance it together!I am dancing sevillanas every tuesday for more than 10 years at a bar in Madrid. Two hours of fun and exercice with my so-called "skool style" but a bit improved after so much time of practice.
You were lucky because I didn't see on my caminos any possibility to dance sevillanas.
Oh yes. If we had sevillana music no problem for me to dance even on my boots. Hahaha.Maybe one day we’ll meet up in the camino and we will dance it together!
Not while others are trying to sleep.
I guess it is OK at other times.
Your perception does not make it reality.Certainly when it feels like "showing off" : "Look at us, having such a good time!!"
My resolution is to stop chewing my nails. 4 days in - so far so good.Aha, is it one of your New Year's resolutions? Happy New Year~
I would even have a suggestion for the music from a summer a really long time ago when I first heard Sevillanas in Spain and saw how people danced to it. I still like listening to the song and the group and I still have the music cassette (unfortunately no longer a device to play it). It is even about a pilgrimage!If we had sevillana music no problem for me to dance even on my boots. Hahaha.
Thank you.I would even have a suggestion for the music from a summer a really long time ago when I first heard Sevillanas in Spain and saw how people danced to it. I still like listening to the song and the group and I still have the music cassette (unfortunately no longer a device to play it). It is even about a pilgrimage!
Un mes de mayo by the Amigos de Gines.
Yes.Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
*Scenery, views only
Is it good to sing and dance with friends during Camino trip?
*Scenery, views only
When you’re on a Long and Winding Road, Waltzing along at a merry pace, in Tango with your Camino Buddies, Doing a Bridge Dance, you have no thoughts of London Calling or Back in the USSR or Budapest. You just know that your Boots are made for Walking and you’ve no thoughts to Leave on a Jet Plane or to Take me Home, Country Roads… then there’s only one thing to do –
Well, shake it up, Pilgrim, now (Shake it up, Pilgrim)
Twist and shout (Twist and shout)
C'mon c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, Pilgrim, now (Come on Pilgrims)
Come on and walk it on out (Walk it on out)
xx
Wow, unbelievable~ I scribbled the book as my hand wanted to freely write long time ago with full of typos and wrong grammar. Will you walk the Camino again?Collin,
I have read your book on the Camino. Three things I remember:
1. Setting your alarm for 4:31 so it would ring after other persons
2. Your searching for the components of Korean food
3. The music.
George
Wow, unbelievable~ I scribbled the book as my hand wanted to freely write long time ago with full of typos and wrong grammar. Will you walk the Camino again?
On the first day of my first camino There was a woman in my hostel in SJPP who asked if she could walk with me. We wound up walking several days together and it wasn’t until the second day we discovered we both studied flamenco dance. The first dance they teach is called sevillanas, more a folk dance. We danced it together somewhere near Zubiri.
I got to dance it again on my second camino in Fromista, that time with live guitar!
Only on the camino!!!❤
Really you? or Avatar?This is me walking down the road toward Castrojariz.
I would never wage war on mankinds ears with my screamsinging...nor make people wonder if i am having some terrible sort of medical issue or malady and to call the ambulance...or to call the police on a drunk man in public for my dancing...
But i very much enjoy when someone with the abilities share them with the world!
I sing and whistle when I am walking alone and there are not to many people around. Music made by others ( or worse played loudly on devices or in bars along the way) tends to annoy me. Certainly when it feels like "showing off" : "Look at us, having such a good time!!"
I have found music and singing to myself with Queen songs..” Don't stop my now” was my 2019 Camino theme...especially when i was by myself and walking through calf pains and blisters...listening to that album, and more specially that song and singing along to myself.. took my mind off the pain and put a much needed pep in my step & a smile on my face when i found myself tired and weary, especially when walking a whole day in the rain. Amazing!!
On one of my caminos, I kept running into a group that seemed to have formed a family. Every time I encountered them, they were singing loudly as they walked. The first time it was joyous and sweet. The second time was okay. After that, it was just annoying. It didn't help that they were singing the same song each time. And getting words wrong.
I tried to lose them, but they would reappear. Eventually I had to just shorten a day to escape them.
On my first camino, there was a young woman walking with her ukulele and strumming it as she walked. She was forever taking breaks in walking, so I would pass her. But she walked faster than me, so I’d hear her approaching and couldn’t escape.
Music is all well and good, but it has its time and place. I sing as I walk when nobody is around to disturb. But mostly I like listening for birds and the sound of silence.
I understood. At least, it is better to volume down or shut down any music device in public. I agree with that. Silence is golden mostly during the Camino trip, I believe.In my opinion, it depends. Singing to yourself, of course. Singing loudly for everyone’s enjoyment, you better be sure that everyone wants to hear you.
On one of my Caminos, after Sarria no doubt, I was walking through a serene patch of dense, cool, quiet woods. The peace and solitude was bliss.
You know where this is going, right?
Along came a young, energetic teen rapping loudly with his music device which was also playing at full volume. I didn’t want to be grumpy, so I put my finger to my lips as he passed me and caught my eye, and said a quiet “como una Iglesia.”
He understood my bizarre Spanish and quieted down, continuing on his way, no apparent hard feelings. I’m sure though, he was saying, under his breath, the future equivalent of “OK., Boomer.”
lol.
It's good. I dislike hearing radio or recorded music in public, but people singing for the sheer joy of it is very much a positive thing even if they are out of tune or otherwise imperfect. I used to have a pretty good singing voice but sadly that disappeared as I grew older and I still grieve for it.
No, I now have a very poor singing voice in a technical sense and all the reassurance in the world won't change that. I used to have well over 3 octaves range and sang early music. I could fill a church or hall without amplification. Now I can't and it saddens me because it used to be a real joy to let my voice just soar. What I am aware of when I sing now is what I have lost.I believe that you still have a good singing voice.
I sang somewhere there were no people in the middle of Camino or sang with friends when they wanted to relieve pain in legs, at least shortly forgetting the pain by being in a singing group temporarily.
Music was a good pain reliever or killer for us feeling friendship and humanism.