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‘Guise of Tough’ by Iona Fyfe – Available Now<\/p>\n
Taken from the album \u2018Away From My Window\u2019 out 24th March 2018
\nPre-order the full album: www.ionafyfe.bandcamp.com<\/p>\n
Produced by Jani Lang (www.dallahanmusic.com)<\/p>\n
Iona Fyfe – vocals
\nLuc McNally – guitar
\nTim Edey – melodeon, nylon guitar
\nJani Lang – fiddle
\nGraham Rorie – mandolin
\nCharlie Stewart – bass
\nCameron Nixon – vocals
\nDavid Foley – bodhran<\/p>\n
This is a song which I would often hear at singarounds, sessions and bothy ballad competitions. Growing up, I\u2019d attend many Traditional Music and Song Association and Buchan Heritage Society events, in which I met many singers such as Joe Aitken, Geordie Murison, Jim Taylor and Scott Gardiner, all of whom would often o er the audience a great rendition of this bothy ballad (and an even greater swalley of fusky!)<\/p>\n
The song is about a man who is hired by \u201cJimmy Broon\u201d, after an initial feed of bread and cheese, he soon finds that he is disappointed in the quality of his horses, and the plough doesn\u2019t work either! I met the legendary Jock Duncan in 2012 at Turriff Bothy Ballad Competition where he was adjudicating the senior bothy ballad competition, and the terrifed 14-year-old me.<\/p>\n
Found in John Ord\u2019s Bothy Songs and Ballads and in the Grieg-Duncan Folk Song Collection (3:378) Roud 3800
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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.
\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
Artist website:<\/strong> https:\/\/ionafyfe.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n Single title:<\/strong> Guise of Tough Search Terms:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Follow these topics: Accordion<\/a>, bagpipes<\/a>, Featured release<\/a>, fiddle<\/a>, folk band<\/a>, Guitar, banjo etc<\/a>, piano<\/a>, Releases<\/a>, Scots language song<\/a>, Scottish songs<\/a>, Scottish Traditions and Culture<\/a><\/p> ‘Guise of Tough’ by Iona Fyfe – Available Now Taken from the album \u2018Away From My Window\u2019 out 24th March 2018 Pre-order the full album: www.ionafyfe.bandcamp.com Produced by Jani Lang (www.dallahanmusic.com) Iona Fyfe – vocals Luc McNally – guitar Tim Edey – melodeon, nylon guitar Jani Lang – fiddle Graham Rorie – mandolin Charlie Stewart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":4303,"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":[39,21,7,12,44,47,11,4,52,54,55],"tags":[195,106,216,217,219,221,105,218,196,220,222,223],"class_list":{"0":"post-4302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-accordion","8":"category-bagpipes","9":"category-featured-release","10":"category-fiddle","11":"category-folk-band","12":"category-guitar-banjo-etc","13":"category-piano","14":"category-member-releases","15":"category-scots-language-song","16":"category-scottish-songs","17":"category-scottish-traditions-and-culture","18":"tag-aberdeen","19":"tag-aberdeenshire","20":"tag-bothy","21":"tag-bothyballad","22":"tag-bothysong","23":"tag-comedysong","24":"tag-doric","25":"tag-folksinger","26":"tag-folksong","27":"tag-humour","28":"tag-northeastfolksong","29":"tag-northeastsong","30":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/files\/2018\/03\/Away-From-My-Window-Cover.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302","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=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/folkwaves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlbum title:<\/strong> Away From My Window
\nRelease Date:<\/strong> 01\/03\/2018
\nSingle artist:<\/strong> Iona Fyfe
\nSingle duration:<\/strong> 5:21
\nRecord Label:<\/strong> Cairnie Records
\nCatalogue No:<\/strong> IF18AWAY
\nWriters:<\/strong> Trad \/ Iona Fyfe
\nPublishers:<\/strong> n\/a
\nExplicit?: No<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"