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Fon a Bhord recording once more from 2002 .... I remember really enjoying putting this together. Helen Mike and Ian came up with the tunes

Donalds (male hen) Lady Grey Drive Home The Mainlanders Miss Girdle

A sampler of songs by Swami Kriyananda. Includes "spiritual folksongs," an Oratorio ("Christ Lives"), and others. Kriyananda has written 300+ pieces - "I've never written a note that I didn't feel was inspired from above." The tagline (When I Live...) is from a children's song included here, "All The World Is My Friend."

New dawn - with Derek Bell of The Chieftains, Alasdair Fraser on violin

From the 2011 Sgoil Chiuil na Gaidhealtachd album.  'A Quiet Autumn' - Sarah Allen, 'This is Your Present' - Ally Forsyth, '£50 Cashback' - John Somerville, Kevin O'Neill, Fraser Shaw

Jigs

From the 2011 Sgoil Chiuil na Gaidhealtachd album.  'Lexy MacAskill' - Dr John MacAskill

Lexy's

Silly Wizard - Donald McGillavry - O'Neill's Cavalry March

MARGARET'S WALTZ/ LAIRD O DRUMBLAIR/ DEIL AMONG THE TAILORS

Aly Bain's brilliant fiddle playing has won him wide acclaim and brought new audiences to traditional music. Here he leads a tour of Scotland with Scotland's Young Champions. Aly Bain on fiddle with the Young Champions and Violet Tulloch on piano play a finale set: Margaret's Waltz/ Laird O Drumblair/ Deil Among The Tailors - recorded in Ballachulish Community Hall.

The album was recorded live during a week long tour by Aly with some of the finest of Scotland's younger generation of musicians and singers, travelling from Arbroath to Glasgow, Strathdon to Thurso and down the west coast to Ballachulish and Oban -- to packed houses all the way. Some of the best times were those spent by the Young Champions playing tunes together and with Aly on the coach on the long road north. A new tune was even composed for Hamish the driver!

Tracks include an opening set composed by Aly Bain's fellow Shetlander Ronnie Cooper - Dr. Donaldson and The Anvil; several Scottish folk songs The Pear Tree and A Wee Burr Stuck tae Ma Apron; a Gaelic song An Ataireachd Ard from Vicki Ferguson with clarsach accompaniment. Instrumental sets include Scott Williams on tin whistle, Russell Kostulin on fiddle, Bruce Lidsay on accordion, a set of tunes from Martyn Bennett on cauldwind pipes and finishing with Margaret's Waltz made famous by Aly in earlier recordings.

This is a track from the album: <a href="http://www.springthyme.co.uk/1032/" target="_parent">Aly Bain & Young Champions</a>.

Aly Bain: Margaret's Waltz/ Laird O Drumblair/ Deil Among The Tailors

Donall Donnelly - Fiddles
Karl Nesbitt - Bodhran

Recorded and mixed by Donncha Moynihan
Produced by Donall Donnelly and Karl Nesbitt
Mastered by Ruairi O'Flaherty

08 Tommy's Tarabukas(Alasdair Fraser)/Janine's Reel - Donall Donnelly & Karl Nesbitt 2012

Sung by Jim Reid on his album I Saw the Wild Geese Flee. Jim Reid's 'Wild Geese' album, first issued in 1984, immediately established him as one of Scotland's finest singers. The song has since been recorded by numerous other singers.

This poem, set to music by Jim, comes from the pen of the late Helen Cruickshank who published the piece under the title Shy Geordie. The Noran Water flows into the South Esk near Brechin. 

Words arranged and music by Jim Reid/Springthyme Music © 1984


1: Up the Noran Water
In by Inglismaddy,
Annie's got a bairnie
That hasna got a daddy.
Some think it's Tammas's
An some think it's Chay's;
An naebody expectit it,
Wi Annie's quiet ways.

2: Up the Noran Water
The bonnie little mannie
Is dandlit and cuddled close
By Inglismaddy's Annie.
Wha the bairnie's faither is
The lassie never says;
But some think it's Tammas's,
And ithers think it's Chay's.

3: Up the Noran Water
The country folk are kind:
And wha the bairnie's faither is
They dinna muckle mind.
But oh! the bairn at Annie's breist,
The love in Annie's ee
Wad mak me wish wi aa ma micht
That the lucky lad wis me!

4: And oh! the bairn at Annie's breist,
The love in Annie's ee
Wad mak me wish wi aa ma micht
That the lucky lad wis me!


Jim Reid - I Saw The Wild Geese Flee

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Sung by Jim Reid on his album I Saw the Wild Geese Flee. Jim Reid's 'Wild Geese' album, first issued in 1984, immediately established him as one of Scotland's finest singers. 

This traditional song has rarely been published, but is in fact widely known in a number of different versions and must date back at least to the 1700s. Around 1820, Thomas Lyle of Paisley used the tune for his famous song Kelvingrove. 

Before the days of mechanical harvesting of the corn/ wheat/ barley, the day's work would be done by the men and women, boys and girls as a 'band of shearers' using the hand held sickle or 'heuk'. Here, the singer suggests that the lassie, who is shortly expecting his child, is not fit for the day's work and reminds her, perhaps with love but perhaps rather cruelly, of the changes that this will bring to her life.

1: "Oh the shearin's no for you ma bonnie lassie O,
Oh the shearin's no for you ma bonnie lassie O,
Oh the shearin's no for you for yer back it winna boo,
And yer belly's rowin fu ma bonnie lassie O."

2: "Dae ye mind yon banks o Ayr ma bonnie lassie O?
Dae ye mind yon banks o Ayr ma bonnie lassie O?
Dae ye mind yon banks o Ayr when ye held me in yer snare,
And yer love ye did declare ma bonnie lassie O?"

3" "Tak the buckles frae yer sheen ma bonnie lassie O,
Tak the buckles frae yer sheen ma bonnie lassie O,
Tak the buckles frae yer sheen for ye've married sic a loon,
And yer dancin days are deen ma bonnie lassie O."

4" "Tak the ribbons frae yer hair ma bonnie lassie O,
Tak the ribbons frae yer hair ma bonnie lassie O,
Tak the ribbons frae yer hair and let doun yer ringlets fair,
For ye've noucht but want and care ma bonnie lassie O."

5: "Oh the shearin's no for you ma bonnie lassie O,
Oh the shearin's no for you ma bonnie lassie O,
Oh the shearin's no for you for yer back it winna boo,
And yer belly's rowin fu ma bonnie lassie O."

winna - will not; boo - bend; rowan - rolling; fu - full; sheen - shoes; sic - such; loon - young man; deen - done, past; noucht - naught.

The Shearin's No For You

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A set of clips featuring the inductees of the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame

Silly Wizard

Ewan MacPherson's fantastic Folktronica project Rough Coast Audio

Naomi Harvey - On the Mountain - with RoughCoastAudio

When dinosaurs ruled the earth I played in a band with Mike Ward, Barbara Dymock, Helen Forbes, Ian Kinnear Patsy Reid and Declan Hegerty. It was fun. This I think was one of the best things we did. The picture is I think is the only one ever taken of us altogether. Copyright of Fon a Bhord and 2 trad Tunes. Dont know origin of Kings taxes. though seem to remember it being a Piobaireachd ground. No doubt a Piper will tell me I'm wrong. Hope you enjoy.

Fon a Bhord : Lady Keith   Kings taxes

Bellowhead - Roll The Woodpile Down

Gilmore & Roberts - Doctor James

Karine Polwart - King Of Birds

Treacherous Orchestra - Sea Of Okhotsk

A tune by Sarah Naylor, followed by Mcleods farewell by Donald Shaw and then Backwatersville by Lesley Thompson

Skyrie : The Mamm

More from our trip to the studio in December

Skyrie : Mrs MacGlashan

The opening track from Battlefield Band's 'Room Enough For All' album, which sets to music the words of a famous poem written by Irish born poet Louis MacNeice in the 1930s.

Room Enough For All' will be released on Temple Records (Temple Records COMD2106)
Info to follow at: www.templerecords.co.uk

Release Dates:
19th March 2013 on CD in the USA, then worldwide on CD & digital download on 8th April 2013

Words: Louis Macneice
Music: Trad. Arr. Battlefield Band
Pub: Kinmor Music

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