Mumford and Sons

We have a new favourite band in our nest right now. Mumford and Sons are the coolest guys around and the really, really cool thing is that both Lewi and I love them equally as much.

They are an English folk rock band who formed in 2007.

Sigh No More is  Mumford and Sons first album. Hopefully it will be the first of many, many more. Don't you love their funky vintagey look?

Here's a little taste of them if you haven't already heard them.{ here}. This is my favourite song, by the way. It's called Timshel and it's truly beautiful. Here's Lewi's favourite, Dust Bowl Dance.

All week we have been playing this CD {which I need to get my own copy of quick smart as Sarah is feeling lost without her copy in the car!} and looking up the lyrics and reading about the band and the meanings to some of the songs and watching them on You Tube. We've had much discussion about what Dust Bowl Dance might be about and why they chose to use a not so choice word in Little Lion Man yet no other song has those sorts of words in it.

We found out that Marcus Mumford, the lead singer of the band, is really into books and Shakespeare and literature in general. Many of their songs have used lines from Shakespearean plays and other literary greats. He also has an online book club and blog. Cool, cool!

The song, Sigh No More's lines:  'Serve God love me and mend' and 'One foot in sea and one on shore' are straight from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. The songs Timshel and Dust Bowl Dance 'draw heavily' {thanks Wiki!} from John Steinbeck's East of Eden and Grapes Of Wrath. Again, pretty cool.

This is unschooling. Life and learning flowing from one thing to another in a natural, cool way. And it's all ignited by a passion or interest or You Tube finding, rather than a text book or set curriculum. It's cool!

Funny, I was just about to blog about all this when I decided to read my daily dose of favourite blogs. Mer's Sususuma is one of them. Such a great post. She had written about exactly the same thing as I was about to write ~ a song she had been singing to Suri and how that led to looking up the music for Myoung to play it on the guitar and then that led to finding out the amazing story of the song and where some of it's lyrics originated from. Same, same, fellow unschoolers!

Go and have a look at  Mumford and Sons website. You'll find out heaps about them there. Tell me you don't love them as much as we do?