bagpipes – FolkWaves

Journey by Bradley Parker

Bradley Parker, 25, is a piper & whistle-player from Portavogie, Northern Ireland. Bradley has performed at events such as Glastonbury Music Festival, Celtic Connections & Celtic Colour International Festival. In 2012, he was awarded Northern Ireland’s Young Musician of the Year and won the Gordon Duncan Memorial Competition in 2019. Bradley recently graduated from the […]

Cat and Mouse by James Duncan Mackenzie

Cat and Mouse is the first single from James’ third solo album. The single features two tunes, The Trapper and The Midnight Mouse. The Midnight Mouse refers to an incident of a mouse in the house in the early hours! Fìbhig was written and largely recorded from home over a two year period like no […]

Hope in the Chaos by Ross Ainslie featuring Malcolm Jones

Hope in the Chaos is a new single from Ross Ainslie and the first collaboration with Runrig guitarist Malcolm Jones. 15% OF THE PROFITS OF THIS TRACK WILL BE DONATED TO SAMH (Scottish Association for Mental Health) OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO youtu.be/ge3sHcQB2-Y ‘HOPE IN THE CHAOS’ a film by GRAEME MACDONALD featuring RACHEL INNES and MARKUS […]

Dancing Fire Queen by Ceólta

Dancing Fire Queen (M. Carmichael). Arranged Ceólta 2019. Mark is a fine song-writer and this song simply imagines spending time staring into a fire and recalling times past. Based in the North of Ireland and formed in October 2018, Ceólta is an exciting group, whose members have many years of experience on the traditional scene. […]

The Road to Yair by Eric Falconer

“The Road to Yair” is the first track on the album of the same name. It’s named after a winding back-road between Galashiels and Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, which runs through countryside where my grandfather was a shepherd many years ago. The album consists of 11 tracks of self-penned tunes played on a variety […]

Home by Eric Falconer

“Home” is the final track on the EP of my composition “Farewell to the Battlefields”, which is based on the imagined thoughts and experiences of a soldier surviving the Great War and going home. It was partly inspired by the experience of taking school parties on tours of the Great War Battlefields over a 20 […]

Tiree Melodies by Jamie MacDonald and Christian Gamauf

These melodies all come from Gaelic songs from Tiree. The first song, Òran Manitoba, is from the famous John MacLean, ‘Bàrd Bailemhartain’. Bailemartain was home to so many bards at one point, it was known locally as ‘Baile nam Bàrd’, or the Village of the Bards. Tir a’ Mhurain, or The Land of the Maram […]