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Golden Bough is a Celtic-music band, based in California, who have been performing together for more than 30 years. The band performs at music festivals and has toured Europe several times. They are known for their acoustic musical performances of folk music and Celtic music and for their 22 albums. They are also known for their association with Lief Sørbye (a founding member) and with the band Tempest.
Current members of the band include Margie Butler (lyric soprano) on vocals, Celtic harp, penny whistle, recorder, bodhran and guitar; Paul Espinoza (folk tenor) on vocals, guitar, accordion and octave-mandolin; Kathy Sierra (folk soprano) on vocals, violin and viola.
Usage examples of "golden bough".
How could he hope to lay the Golden Bough alongside the Gull while she fired her broadsides into them, and they could make no reply?
She tells him, true, to go and bury Misenus and to make various sacrifices of bulls and other livestock, but if he really wants to perform a feat that no one has had the courage or the luck to attempt, he must find a leafy, shady tree on which there is a golden bough.
Because I had read about Saint John's Fire in Frazer's Golden Bough.
Get The Golden Bough and see what it says about Saint John's Fire.
But the giving of the Golden Bough has not been done, as far as the book is concerned, for centuries.