[scots-l] Re: Song Request

2001-06-04 Thread Keith W Dunn
Hello Nigel; Concerning the trad. song These are My Mountains, there's a very good version sung by Alex Beaton @ http://www.alexbeaton.com/ Here is a list of the tracks on his album Beaton's Best. Twa Recruiting Sergeants Loch Lomond A Scottish Soldier The Skye Boat Song The Massacre Of

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Minstrelsy Bicentenary 2002

2001-06-04 Thread David Kilpatrick
W. B. OLSON wrote: Can I try again to do that 5 verse version of John Anderson, my Jo from 'Philomel', 1744, that I sang last Friday night? That verse where the reciter of the traditional text in 'Philomel', forgot the 3rd and 4th lines of one verse and just repeated the 1st and 2nd, sort

Re: [scots-l] Lochaber No More

2001-06-04 Thread W. B. OLSON
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Can some one recommend a good recording of Lochaber No More? I once heard it on a long out of print album called _Songs and Music of the Redcoats (1642-1902)_ sung (I believe) by Martin Wyndham Read. Actually I'd really like to get a copy of the LP

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Minstrelsy Bicentenary 2002

2001-06-04 Thread George M R Duff
Hi David, Serendipity or what?,I've just been asked this week to record an album of Hogg's songs with Tony McManus,John Martin,Ian McInnes and Marc Duff as backing musicians.I'll keep ypu informed of developments. Regards to Shirley, Slainte, George Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional

[scots-l] McKenzie Highlanders (for Philip)

2001-06-04 Thread Nigel Gatherer
Philip W said: Help, please! I was looking a tune for a set of pipe tunes. This one came into my mind. Except I have no idea what it is called and how the next part goes. X:257 T:McKenzie Highlanders B:Master Method for Highland Bagpipe (1953) Z:Nigel Gatherer M:2/4 L:1/8 K:A mixolydian

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Minstrelsy Bicentenary 2002

2001-06-04 Thread W. B. OLSON
George M R Duff wrote: Hi David, Serendipity or what?,I've just been asked this week to record an album of Hogg's songs with Tony McManus,John Martin,Ian McInnes and Marc Duff as backing musicians.I'll keep ypu informed of developments. Regards to Shirley, Slainte, George Posted

Re: [scots-l] Scottish Minstrelsy Bicentenary 2002

2001-06-04 Thread David Kilpatrick
George M R Duff wrote: Hi David, Serendipity or what?,I've just been asked this week to record an album of Hogg's songs with Tony McManus,John Martin,Ian McInnes and Marc Duff as backing musicians.I'll keep ypu informed of developments. Hogg's songs are nearly all later than his

[scots-l] Edinburgh Fiddle Festival 2001

2001-06-04 Thread Stuart Eydmann
Just a short note to say that preparations for the annual Edinburgh Fiddle Festival (Fiddle 2001 this year!) are well underway and that a programme should be available during the summer months. Meanwhile, a new charity The Scots Fiddle Festival Ltd has been established to run the festival this

Re: [scots-l] Trad Scots?

2001-06-04 Thread David Kilpatrick
Keith W Dunn wrote: Just what would be the deciding factor that would make it Scots Fiddle music if you didn't know the origin or author? a) the tune b) the style of playing In the first case you have total crossover and sharing anyway, but there are trademarks of Irish tunes and