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‘Banks of Inverurie” by Iona Fyfe – Available Now<\/p>\n
Taken from the album ‘Away From My Window’ out 24th March 2018 Produced by Jani Lang (www.dallahanmusic.com)<\/p>\n Iona Fyfe – vocals, harmonium Video by Graeme MacDonald \u00a9 Cairnie Records I first heard this song from fellow Huntly singer, Shona Donaldson, when she was a guest at Cullerlie Traditional Singing Week- end in 2016. Shona attributed it to the singing of Gordon Easton, who, at 84 years old, recorded it on his Springthyme album, The Last of the Clydesdales. It was also sung by Jock Duncan who recorded it on his 1996 album Ye Shine Whar Ye Stan! Jock learnt it from itinerant farm worker Jimmy McBeath in 1971. Aberdeenshire folksinger, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland\u2019s finest young ballad singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. At twenty, Iona has established a strong voicing of place in her repertoire and was a nominee for Scots Singer of the Year at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards. A finalist in the BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2017, Iona has been described as \u201cone of the best that Scotland has to offer.\u201d (Global-Music.de) and was the winner of the Molloy Award at The Trip to Birmingham Irish Trad Fest 2017. Artist website:<\/strong> http:\/\/www.ionafyfe.com<\/a><\/p>\n Single title:<\/strong> Banks of Inverurie Search Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Follow these topics: Featured release<\/a>, fiddle<\/a>, folk band<\/a>, Guitar, banjo etc<\/a>, miscellaneous<\/a>, piano<\/a>, Releases<\/a>, Scots language song<\/a>, Scottish songs<\/a>, Scottish Traditions and Culture<\/a>, songwriter<\/a><\/p> ‘Banks of Inverurie” by Iona Fyfe – Available Now Taken from the album ‘Away From My Window’ out 24th March 2018 Pre-order the full album: www.ionafyfe.bandcamp.com Produced by Jani Lang (www.dallahanmusic.com) Iona Fyfe – vocals, harmonium Luc McNally – guitar Charlie Grey – fiddle Simon Gall – piano Callum Cronin – double bass Video by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":4187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,44,47,49,11,4,52,54,55,62],"tags":[195,106,105,196],"class_list":{"0":"post-4186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-release","8":"category-fiddle","9":"category-folk-band","10":"category-guitar-banjo-etc","11":"category-miscellaneous","12":"category-piano","13":"category-member-releases","14":"category-scots-language-song","15":"category-scottish-songs","16":"category-scottish-traditions-and-culture","17":"category-song-writer","18":"tag-aberdeen","19":"tag-aberdeenshire","20":"tag-doric","21":"tag-folksong","22":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-19-at-15.20.04.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4243,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPre-order the full album: www.ionafyfe.bandcamp.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLuc McNally – guitar
\nCharlie Grey – fiddle
\nSimon Gall – piano
\nCallum Cronin – double bass<\/p>\n
\nRecorded at Gran\u2019s House Studio
\nProduced, engineered and mixed by Jani Lang
\nMastered by Chris Waite at Gran\u2019s House Studio<\/p>\n
\nwww.ionafyfe.com<\/p>\n
\nA song of rejection, the Banks of Inverurie, echoes\u2019 the form and structure of the American folksong, The Lakes of Pontchartrain. The de nite origins of the song remain unknown, but it is thought that it originated in Scotland and was brought to America by soldiers ghting for the British army in Louisiana and Canada in 1812. It could be argued that Aberdeenshire is the source region of the localised song, by its inclusion in Greig-Duncan and the song being set on the banks of the River Ury. It is also printed
\nin two Broadside forms: The Banks of Inverury and The Banks of Inveraray. The prints are the same, with the place name the only di erence. Until half way through the 19th century, Inverurie was spelt as Inverury. One version of the broadside uses the historical spelling of Inverury, which proves that the song existed before 1866, when the town clerk made the spelling change to Inverurie o cial, after post (and songs) got mixed up between Inverury and Inveraray, in Argyll. The Gaelic title for Inverurie is still Inbhir Uraidh, meaning \u201cCon uence of the Ury\u201d.
\nFound in Robert Ford\u2019s Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland, John Ords, Greig Last Leaves, Greig-Duncan (6:1263) Roud 1415<\/p>\n
\nIona\u2019s 2018 debut release, \u201cAway From My Window\u201d is a concept album, inspired by the source and revivalist singers of Aberdeenshire. Featuring archive clips of singers such as Stanley Robertson and Lizzie Higgins, Iona aims to showcase revivalism in folksong by creating a programme of modern interpretations of old ballads and self-penned songs in a traditional style. Whilst drawing on the work of Scottish songwriters such as Michael Marra and Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap), Iona aims to showcase the universalism of folksong in an inter-genre manner. Iona will be touring her album throughout the UK in March and will perform in Fergus, Ontario in April before a tour of Germany, Austria and Italy in October.<\/p>\n
\nAlbum title:<\/strong> Away From
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> 24\/03\/2018
\nSingle artist:<\/strong> Iona Fyfe
\nSingle duration:<\/strong> 5:32
\nRecord Label:<\/strong> Cairnie Records
\nCatalogue No:<\/strong> IF18AWAY
\nWriters:<\/strong> Trad
\nPublishers:<\/strong> N\/A
\nExplicit?: No<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"