Faun - Nacht des Nordens (Northern Night) @ Axis Club Toronto, Ontario 2024-10-1

Faun performing Nacht des Nordens (Northern Night) at the Axis Club in Toronto. It is a very interesting mystical song.

Nacht des Nordens - German lyrics
Bring mich fort, du weiser Wand'rer
Fort ins Land, von dem ich träume
Silbern schimmern dort die Berge
Und wie Gold glänzen die Bäume

Flieg mit deinem leichten Schlitten
Flieg über die Silberfelder
Durch die helle Nacht des Nordens
Durch die weißen Birkenwälder

Lass uns Wege, lass uns Zeichen
Sammeln dort im Heidekraut
Lieder von den Wölfen lernen
Und vom Wind im Espenlaub

Lass uns Zauberkräuter finden
Und am Wildbach unter Weiden
Unsre Wünsche, unsre Träume
In die Buchenstäbe schneiden

(Refrain)
Lass uns dort zusammen finden
Wandern zwischen Tag und Tau
Lass uns Schätze roter Beeren
Finden dort im Morgengrau

Northern Night - English translation
Take me away, you wise traveler
Away to the land of which I dream
Silvery shimmer there the mountains
And golden gleam the trees

Fly with your lithe sleigh
Fly over the fields of silver
Through the bright northern night
Through the white birch forests

Let us seek trails and tracks
There in the heather
Learn songs from the wolves
And from the wind in the aspen-leaves

Let us find magical herbs
And by the wild creek under willows
Carve our wishes, our dreams
Into the slender beech staves

(Refrain )
Let us meet there
Roam between the day and the dew
Let us find troves of red berries
There in the first light of dawn

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/nacht-...

The Faun show at the Axis Club on 722 College St. was well-attended and had a lively audience. Before the show there was a VIP meet and greet event which required a separate ticket.
Faun is a German pagan folk band based near München in Bavaria, southern Germany, whose members are very talented and highly skilled musicians who play a variety of interesting instruments which are unusual up to now in the popular music scene. This includes the bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, Swedish nyckelharpa, various flutes and stringed-instruments, a variety of percussion instruments, and a modern electronic component. Faun has also worked with Norwegian musicians Einar Selvik and Lindy Fay Hella of Wardruna, multi-instrumentalist Martin Seeberg from Denmark, Katja Moslehner, Rüdiger Maul and Margarethe Eible (Rairda) who has also performed with Poeta Magica.
Former band member, the stunningly beautiful, highly talented vocalist and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Fiona Frewert (née Rüggeberg) made music history by introducing the bagpipes into modern popular music.
Faun has some very beautiful music videos made by filmmaker Kilian Keuchel.
Vielen Dank Faun für Ihre besuch ! Die Show war Faun-tastisch !
Thank you very much Faun for your visit ! The show was Faun-tastic !
The current members of the band are
Oliver s. Tyr - vocals, various stringed instruments including nyckelharpa, band manager
Niel Mitra - electronic music - computer, sampler and synthesizer
Stephan Groth - vocals, hurdy gurdy
Laura Fella - vocals, frame drum & mandola (on maternity leave during this tour - congratulations from the whole audience for her new baby - announced by Oliver Tyr at the show)
Adaya - vocals, bagpipes, many types of wind instruments, banjola, harp, lyre
Alex Schulz - various percussion instruments such as drums, davul, frame drum, doumbek/darabuka, tombak/zarb, cajon, berimbau, shakers/rattles, riq

In 2024 there was North American component of the Pagan Folk tour :
19.09.2024 Atlanta, GA - Center Stage Theatre
21.09.2024 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
22.09.2024 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel
25.09.2024 Richmond, VA - The National
27.09.2024 Baltimore MD - Baltimore Soundstage
27.09.2024 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
28.09.2024 Somerville, MA - Somerville Theatre
29.09.2024 Montreal, QC - Le National
01.10.2024 Toronto, ON - The Axis Club
02.10.2024 Millvale, PA - Mr. Smalls Theatre
04.10.2024 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre
06.10.2024 Chicago, IL - Metro

Faun's official website and social media
https://faune.de/en/band/
   / @faun  
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2wPOg...
https://x.com/faunofficial
  / faunofficial  
https://www.instagram.com/faunofficia...

Faun on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun_(band)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faun_(Band)

Old Norse and Runic studies
Prof.Henrik Williams' The Rune Blog, University of Uppsala, Sweden
https://www.runforum.nordiska.uu.se/b...
Jackson Crawford - American Old Norse scholar and YouTuber
   / @jacksoncrawford  
Prof.Henrik Williams - The Rök Runestone in Sweden with Jackson Crawford
   • The Rök Runestone (with Dr. Henrik Williams)  
Futhark : International Journal of Runic Studies
http://futhark-journal.com/
American Association of Runic Studies
https://runicstudies.org/
Allsherjargode
   / @allsherjargode