Description
The Fairy Dance: watch now
“Take care if the peerie folk ask you to play
The night may go on for a year and a day”
The Fairy Dance tells the story of a young fiddle player who makes a deal with a local Orcadian trow, one of the ‘peerie’ (or ‘peedie’) faerie folk who live underground in ‘howes’ which litter the landscape of Orkney. In reality these mounds are often neolithic chambered cairns, of which the most ‘weel kent’ is Maeshowe. As with similar dark folk tales about leprechauns, goblins and such, doing deals with these magical creatures carries great risk as well as the promise of great reward.
The Fairy Dance is available to watch ad-free thanks to the ingenuity of the non-commercial, open-source PeerTube network and the kindness of the server administrator at peertube.co.uk. Should the Value for Value distribution model (which relies on good will) prove financially viable, a portion of the proceeds will be donated to help with their operating costs.
If you would like to know more about the story of The Fairy Dance and the process of it’s creation, a website dedicated to it can be found at thefairydance.com
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© Martin Laird, 2022. All rights reserved.
Fiona MacInnes –
This is brilliant .I loved it, captivating, sinister, haunting and beautiful. The colour is fantastic the characters spot on and the music superb. Its a real gem of a work. A real creative triumph.
Martin Laird –
That’s very kind of you Fiona, thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed it.