Who can say where this song originated! Ronnie Alexander picked up this localised version from sources around Bonhill in Dunbartonshire WIDELY regarded as a near-permanent institution on the Scottish folk scene, the Clutha, while never maintaining as high a profile as some other Scottish bands of the past four decades, has been an innovative and […]
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Homage by Paddy Callaghan
This is a 2 tune track from the E.P. released by Paddy Callaghan in the summer of 2013. The track comprises of the traditional tune ‘Sporting Paddy’ followed by the Johnny Óg Connolly Reel – ‘Homage to Rooney’ The release is widely available online through the usual outlets – iTunes, Amazon, Google Play e.t.c. Paddy […]
Island of Hope by Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell
Island of Hope is the third track from Kith & Kin, the new album from Linsey Aitken & Ken Campbell. The songs and music presented on this album are all about Kith and Kin, each with a story, each with a Scottish connection and a tale to be told. The album acts as Linsey and […]
Bleecker Street/The Busker by David Grubb
The single is heavily influenced by large cityscapes, most significantly New York. Bleecker Street is a vibrant passage in the centre of Manhattan full of interesting music and art. This first melody features an unusual 5/4 time signature which continues to develop as the track progresses. We then transition into The Busker using polyrhythmic footsteps. […]
Queen of Argyll by Silly Wizard
The Queen of Argyll was always a hugely popular live song for Silly Wizard, one of Scotland’s all-time most influential folk bands. This version was recorded in front of a sell out crowd in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the band’s 1983 North American tour. The recording was originally released as 2 LPs. A repackaged and re-mastered […]
A ghaoil, leig dhachaigh gum mhàthair mi (O love, let me home to my mother) by Julie Fowlis
Taken from Julie’s fourth studio album, this hypnotic and mysterious song tells the tale of a young girls’ encounter with the ‘each-uisge’ or water-horse. Featuring award winning Scottish ensemble RANT, with strings arranged by flautist and composer Tom Doorley. Brought up on North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, Fowlis has been a proud standard bearer […]
Sunday Herald CD 2014
On November 8th 2014 the Sunday Herald launched the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards with a CD of past and present Scottish traditional musicians showcasing the amazing musical talent our nation has. Forty Thousand (40,000) CDs were pressed – a record for a traditional music CDs! You can read about the CD over at our […]
Scotland’s Winter by Siobhan Miller
This track is a musical setting of the Edwin Muir poem Scotland’s Winter, by Ewan Macpherson from the debut solo album from Siobhan Miller, ‘Flight of Time.’ Recently Siobhan’s soulful and stirring renewal of traditional song has seen her voted Scots Singer of the Year in the Scots Trad Music Awards, not once but twice. […]
Bagpipe Music by Battlefield Band
The opening track from Battlefield Band’s ‘Room Enough For All’ album, ‘Bagpipe Music’ sets to music the words of a famous poem written by Irish born Louis MacNeice in the 1930s after a visit to Scotland’s Western Isles. The superficially ‘nonsense’ poem actually passes deeper comment on what MacNeice perceived as the decline of the […]
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