Uiseag Aiseig, pronounced "ooshak ashik", means skylark of Ashaig. This album is a collection of tunes and songs I’ve been playing and singing with friends in the last few years, inspired by my home village of Ashaig in south Skye and my travels to North Carolina.

Am Bàta Uaine

A' Chiad Bhalsa

The Jigs - Uiseag Aiseig / Manus Lunny's Terracotta Plower Pop

Màiri Ruadh a' Dannsa An Nochd

The Most Beautiful Scottish Song Ever! LIVE Cuillins of Rhum On Stage Singers and Celtic Band

Enjoy the serenity of this beautiful song from Scotland, uniquely performed as a vocal duet with Celtic band including vocal harmonies, accordion, guitars, bass, percussion, penny whistle and piano. This heartfelt selection is from our performance of all Scottish music and dance in celebration of the birthday of Robert Burns at Marquette Michigan's Peter White Public Library. 

Performers:
Maija Niemi, fiddle
Mary Kay Aufrance, vocals and accordion
Tom Aufrance, vocals and guitar
Warren Hantz, bass guitar
Pierre Ogea, percussion
Bruce Irving, guitar
Carol Irving, penny whistle
John Kibit, piano

This serenely lovely traditional folk song "Cuillins of Rhum" first appeared in the historic book "Songs of the Hebrides Collected and Arranged for Voice and Pianoforte With Gaelic and English Words" by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth Macleod (Boosey & Hawkes, 1909 & 2022). It's an important scholarly work that includes not only music scores with lyrics in both Gaelic and English, but also musicology and presentations describing pronounciation, and music history.

Our arrangement is by Tom Aufrance, who added our harmony line sung here by Mary Kay Aufrance.

For more music by Tom and Mary Kay Aufrance https://www.aufrance.com/music You can view the video of this performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcpU87pPtlU

Cuillins of Rhum

Cuillins of Rhum LIVE PERFORMANCE

Tachérie's Celtic Trance set at Krème, AfrikaBurn 2025 - Friday/Saturday night 12am-2am

Come jigging and river dancing through this unique blend of traditional Celtic Irish music and high energy electronic music

Tachérie @ Kreme AfrikaBurn (CELTIC TRANCE)

This is a quick arrangement and cover of the famous Scottish song, the poem is by Robert Burns.

Composer: Traditional
Text: Robert Burns
Arranger: Brandon K Smith
Vocals: Brandon K Smith
Production and Mixing: Brandon K Smith

Oh my luv is like a red red rose

Life’s a puzzle with missing pieces
A storm that comes and never ceases
But through the dark I’ll try to see
A brighter world that waits for me

Life is a puzzle

It could be that, in your domicile these days, there is a certain focus on "spring cleaning."  Sometimes this is simply a focus for conversation and good intentions.  Though occasionally, it may actually materialize into concrete actions such as sweeping under the couch or washing the wall behind the fridge or checking through the cans well beyond their best-before dates in the back of the cupboard.  Here at Routes & Branches & Beyond, it means cleaning off a shelf and playing the music that I've been meaning to get to all winter.  

I'll have incessant and driving Cape Breton fiddle (just like the rain there...), legendary Irish quartets devoted to your own good health, traditional government rams, celtic punk attitude from the suburbs, deep folk from the west, Scottish moist-eyed tributes, heavy wood from a guitar guru, lush love fiddles, thrift store americana, NL cultural anthems, and old-timey chamber music from York County.  All from musicians such as Andrea Beaton, Planxty, The Government Rams, The Swinish Multitude, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dougie Maclean, Don Ross, Jay Ungar & Molly Mason, The Rough & Tumble, Tarahan, Shane MacGowan & the Popes, and The Creaking Tree String Quartet.  Get out a new broom and join me.


Routes & Branches & Beyond show # 369 2025 05 08

Psalm 16
Verses: 7-11
Sing psalms 
Tune: Old 134th 



I'll praise the LORD my God, whose counsel guides my choice;
And even in the night, my heart recalls instruction's voice.
Before me constantly
I set the LORD alone.
Because he is at my right hand
I'll not be overthrown.
Therefore my heart is glad;
my tongue with joy will sing.
My body too will rest secure in hope unwavering.
For you will not allow my soul in death to stay,
Nor will you leave your Holy One to see the tomb's decay.
You have made known to me the path of life divine.
Bliss shall I know at your right hand; joy from your face will shine.

Psalm 16, Old 134th (Sing Psalms)

"Tha mo rùn air a’ ghille", "Tha'm buntàta mór", "Leis a bhrioguis uallach ho ri o ri", "Ruighleadh mo Nighean Donn", "Daddy Long-legs": Tunes from the Scottish Gaelic tradition, mostly.  Rough translations are "My young man that I love," "The potatoes are big", "The burdensome trousers", "The brown haired girl's reel", and "breabadair".  The first four tunes are traditional, but the last tune is my own composition.  The middle three tunes are Puirt à beul, or mouth music.  I picked up the first tune off a recording by Mary Jane Lamond and Wendy MacIsaac.  I found the second, third and fourth tunes in a manuscript written down in the middle of the 19th century.  The last tune celebrates one of the creatures, a species of pholcid, we find skulking in dark corners in the PNW as well as the British Isles.  You will find all of these tunes in the book I published in 2010.  
This is my imperfect homage to Gaelic piping.  I don't pretend to be a "Gaelic Piper" or to have even a passing understanding of Scottish Gaelic.  I am not even a Scottish piper.  These days it's common for pipers who have no cultural connection to Cape Breton, for example, to call themselves Cape Breton pipers, so it's important to identify just what I am, a piper from Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest, nothing more.  I'm not appropriating Scottish Gaelic culture here, or pretending to participate in it.  I am trying to make interesting music that doesn't depend on identity.  
These wonderful pipes were made by Murray Huggins in Oregon, the state in which I was born, with a substantial history of Scottish piping.  Murray makes instruments of the highest quality and his silver engraving is in demand by pipe makers all over the world.  No matter how bleak the state of the world, playing these pipes always makes me happy.  Making music, being creative, being thoughtful is the best way I have found to respond to the seemingly inexorable madness around us.

Gaelic air and puirt a beul: Highland bagpipes

© Sleipnir's Rest 2025 - David & Laiyee Jamieson
Ruith an Uisge
A lively and uplifting jig that captures the untamed spirit of a journey down Scotland’s breathtaking Caledonian Canal. With each swirling note, the tune evokes the rhythm of oars in water, the call of distant hills, and the joy of adventure through one of the Highlands’ most storied waterways. A celebration of movement, nature, and the timeless magic of a Scottish voyage.

Ruith an Uisge

© Sleipnir's Rest 2024 - David & Laiyee Jamieson
Mairidh Gaol agus Ceòl
A lively celebration of love and tradition, this spirited jig, whose Gaelic title means "Love and Music Will Endure", is a heartfelt tribute to the love of my life, Laiyee. Infused with joy, rhythm, and the timeless warmth of the Highlands, it dances with the promise that true love and the power of music will outlast all else.

Mairidh gaol agus ceòl

Scent of Heather

DanMcK & McMullan - Anthem1 [25] - Fur DHaicH & Jonesy!x

BassPipes

Highland Hardcore

Bagpipe Blitz

This is a popular session tune.  It’s a very old tune, dating back to at least the early 18th Century, and has taken root in musical communities all over the British Isles, and the diaspora.  Like most old, timeless tunes it is known by a lot of different names and has many versions in several different keys.  “Jenny’s Chickens”, “John Byrne’s Cake”, “Drowsy Maggie”, “Noel Hill’s reel” and “Jenny’s Rambles” are some of the names given this melody.  It lends itself well to variations, so I added a few of my own.  No one owns a traditional tune like this or even a part in it, no matter how hard some people try.  These tunes are elemental like trout in a primordial river.  The pipes were made for me by Murray Huggins of Colin Kyo Bagpipes in Oregon.

Sleepy Maggie - Highland bagpipes

*For tunes copyright struck on here visit: https://whyp.it/users/431/djmcmullanx

Pcdj McMullan as heard in:-

*Team Effect - November Mega'24
https://soundcloud.com/john-fagan-48624738/team-effect-november-mega24

*Helfy Rapid - Summer Megamix (22)
https://soundcloud.com/pcdj22/helfy-rapid1-summer-mega-22-for-damoramsey-jonnym-kierankimmit?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=ED2C9D087CCF449EAC6B37BE6DB28AC4&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

*TeamIllusion - TheSummerJam [21] - EddieKingsBirthdayTune!x
https://soundcloud.com/user-258480948/teamillusion-thesummerjam-21-eddiekingsbirthdaytunex?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=EF1CC9C1F463433F8542FC3754CEAB46&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

*Acid Pros - Summer Set Baby (For The Masters)21
https://soundcloud.com/user-836066026/acid-pros-summer-set-baby-for-the-masters?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=7F7277D6517645F08A19BF96EBD98C84&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

*Mix Mysters - Halloween Mega - For Gg
https://soundcloud.com/pcdj1/mix-mysters-halloween-mega-for-gg?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=FC81B5166B7848DF9F227135E20C11F5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

*TeamIllusion - OctoberMegamix [Granty’sTune]!
https://youtu.be/tVqXwjeKR-c

*Helfy Rapid - Summer Megamix 18
https://soundcloud.com/pcdj1/helfy-rapid-summer-megamix-18?ref=clipboard&p=i&c=0&si=E350EE012E774635AC491D997A983D1D&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

For more PCDJ goodness just like this please visit YouTube.Com/@MadBuzzPcDj where I upload videos of music from myself and others in the PCDJ community. Any requests, drop me a message on here or on YouTube.

Into deep techno, heavy drops, and late-night sounds.
Always experimenting, always learning. Just here to share what I love.
Here to build a community!

Member of the Free Church of Scotland
 Lover of Psalmody, Amateur Precentor  

Posting some recordings of psalms most are taken in congregations or meetings within the Free Church and are mostly my own recordings or from live streams of services I have attended

PLEASE NO PROMOTERS or VIDEO PLEASE. I DO MY OWN ! 
Mairidh Gaol is Ceòl: A well-known Scottish Gaelic proverb that translates to "The world will end, but love and music will endure”
Collabs welcome. I’ll provide the lyrics if you would like to provide the music and vocals ? 
Scottish born and bred. Just exploring some ideas spinning round in my head and putting them up here. Various styles of music and trying to find my niche ! Songs are ai assisted. All the songs are written solely by me. Music and singers are ai assisted

Sleipnir's Rest is a dynamic group of singer-songwriters fronted by David & Laiyee who have recently made Inverness their home. Their unique blend of musical talents and creative synergy, producing original contemporary Scottish Folk songs.

Iseabail Strachan is a community musician, accordionist, banjo player and singer from Ashaig in the Isle of Skye.

Brandon K Smith (b. 1994) is a composer and arranger based in Atlanta, Georgia. In November 2021, he was selected as the 2022 commissioned composer for the Georgia Music Teachers Association, where he will present a suite for flute and harp at the association’s annual conference. In November 2019, He was commissioned to write a choral/orchestral composition for Coro Vocati, a professional choir based in Atlanta. The piece “Starry Night” was premiered February 2020 and was also featured on NPR “City Lights”. In April 2020, he received first place in the musical composition category of the Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference, for a composition dedicated to mathematical techniques in traditional flamenco music. He has also received commissions from acclaimed ensembles Memoduo and Libertalia Philharmonic. He received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees at the Georgia State University School of Music.

Brandon is also an avid performer, teacher, and director in the Atlanta area. In 2019 he founded Leading Tone, Georgia State’s first chamber choir and he currently serves as the group’s artistic director and primary vocal arranger. Performing credits include concerts with acclaimed composers Eric Whitacre and Caroline Shaw, and acclaimed ensembles Georgia State University Singers and the University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club. Teaching credits include piano and voice lessons with Play More Music in Atlanta and Bach to Rock Music School in Alpharetta. He currently serves as the artistic operations coordinator for the Georgia Symphony Orchestra, the tenor section leader at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and on the advisory board of the Peach State Opera. He has also written articles that have been featured in the periodical The Collective. Upcoming projects include A Late Bloom-an album of original art songs, and an original chamber opera.

Sound Creater / Solo Musician

Lives and works in Kyoto,Japan. Making ambient instrumental music by midi instruments and some samples. Especially, almost every works was based on impressions of asian landscapes,cultures,atmospheres and so on. I keep in mind to create music that can relax for all listeners.

I play several different kinds of bagpipes, including Northumberland smallpipes, Scottish smallpipes, Lowland pipes, Highland pipes, as well as the two row button accordion, whistles and geegaw.  I live on Vashon Island in Puget Sound near Seattle and Tacoma in Washington State.  The wonderful singer-song writer, Kat Eggleston, is my wife.

New tracks tagged #Scottish