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And now for the fun part! Where I crush your beliefs about Santa Claus.
First, Santa Claus was a real person, as a matter of fact, we still have his bones.
He did not live at the North Pole (as American's believe), nor did he live in Lapland (Sorry), he lived in Turkey. He was a Christian bishop, who helped fight the heretic Arius. in response to Arius' teachings, St. Nicholas declared that the Son was "homoousious" (that is of the same substance, consubstantial) with the Father. He did many good deeds, like rescuing people who were unjustly condemned to death.
One of the more famous St. Nicholas stories is that there were three daughters who did not have a dowry (which meant good luck getting married in their society) and were going to be sold into slavery. The story goes that over three nights he secretly threw three bags of Gold coins through the window (don't worry, I doubt it was a glass window), so they had their dowry and did not have to get sold into slavery. The more embellished version of the story is that they landed in peoples shoes. For the first two bags the window was unlocked, but the father locked the window so st. Nick had no choice but to climb on the roof and drop it through the chimney, and that is where stockings and coming down the chimney came from. That is the embellished version of course. It became traditional to give gifts on St. Nicholas Day, but Martin Luther thought it would be better to give gifts on Christ's day (after all why should we honour St. Nicholas? he thought) and so he encouraged giving gifts on Christmas instead. But Luther didn't win, and neither did St. Nicholas. The gifts were given on Christmas from St. Nicholas, who morphed into Santa Claus, the god of materialistic accumulation, a far cry from the man who sold all he had to give to the poor. I don't know where the elves came from, but if you come across a santa imp[ersonator (we have several in the USA) just ask him "Homoosious or homoiosious?" and that is how you can tell is he is real or fake.

Anyway, these are a couple of fun banjo tunes. My banjo teacher gets credit for teaching me how to play them and providing tab.
enjoy!

Enjoy!
Key Bb
Apologize for the background noise

Here is a cover I did of Ayar's "Menin Apam"
It is challenging to get the right sound texture on the Banjo, so be sure to listen to the originals for a better version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yvxlz18t2w

Full version (NTS Music):
https://invidious.kavin.rocks/watch?v=qfPBdIjYa0c

I did not write this Song. I sort of arranged it for banjo, but the information is lost in the process. I am not even gonna try to compete with Ayar when it comes to singing, so I left out the lyrics. They are good lyrics though (As far as I understand Kyrgyz).

I am playing in the key of B major, standard G tuning.

All credit for the original goes to Ayar, all blame for the mistakes goes to me 😃
I am also working on arranging Kyrgyz Folk music for Banjo, and I also have Scottish Folk Music in the works.
Enjoy!