From Rachel Newton’s album ‘Changeling’. Words taken from Child Ballad no.40, music written by Rachel Newton Rachel Newton is a singer, harpist and composer from Edinburgh. Member of The Shee, The Emily Portman Trio and The Furrow Collective as well as releasing solo albums ‘The Shadow Side’ and ‘Changeling’. Artist website: http://www.rachelnewtonmusic.com Single title: Queen […]
The Loch Ness Monster by The Whistlebinkies
Two jigs from the bagpipe tradition. The first is by one of Canada’s leading pipers and composers, Jim McGillivray. The second, by Peter MacLeod of Partick, Glasgow, was inspired by the famous 1934 photograph of the elusive beast taken by Robert Kenneth Wilson Formed during the great surge of interest in traditional and Celtic music […]
Brose and Butter/ Drops of Brandy by Corrina Hewat
Two instrumental tunes on the harp. According to Ford (Song Histories, 1900, pp. 189-190) “Brose and Butter” was a favourite air of Charles II in his exile. Despite the reference to the king (which would date it to the 1640’s), John Glen (1891) does not find a printed version until Robert Bremner’s 1757 collection. Brose […]
