Scottish Music News

Transatlantic Sessions 5 DVD - In Stock Now

2012-01-26T21:28:00.000Z

DVD of the complete fifth TV series, screened on BBC Scotland and BBC Four in October / November 2011.

Transatlantic Sessions once again brings together the best of Nashville, Ireland and Scotland in an award-winning format that affords, in the words of one critic, a unique insight into the sheer joy of making music.

Recorded in a beautiful old hunting lodge at the entrance to Glen Lyon near Aberfeldy in the Perthshire Highlands, top vocal and instrumental exponents of the Country and Celtic traditions gathered to rehearse and play together with no audience except themselves and a resident house-band of their peers. As with previous series, music co-directors were Nashvilles Jerry Douglas
and Shetlands Aly Bain.

Leavening the intimacy of the music-making through each of the six programmes in the series is a strong element of spectacular Highland scenic photography while this time around a greater emphasis on informal backstage conversations and stories serves to highlight the series genuinely historic qualities of collaboration and performance.
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Music In Scotland on Facebook

2012-01-24T16:34:00.002Z

Find www.MusicInScotland.com on Facebook at:

http://www.facebook.com/musicinscotland

Jim Lindsay Scottish Dance Band - The Black Watch Ball [CD]

2012-01-06T15:58:00.000Z

Jim Lindsay Scottish Dance Band - The Black Watch Ball - Available at Music In Scotland

A double-CD of the finest Scottish Country Dance Music by Jim Lindsay and his band. The Black Watch Ball features the Kandahar Reel and a selection of dance favourites.

1. Dashing White Sergeant
Length: 4:37

2. Dashing White Sergeant Encore
Length: 4:35

3. Duke Of Perth
Length: 5:45

4. Duke Of Perth Encore
Length: 5:41

5. Eightsome Reel
Length: 8:13

6. Foursome Reel
Length: 3:02

7. The Duke &Duchess Of Edinburgh
Length: 7:09

8. The Duke &Duchess Of Edinburgh Encore
Length: 7:05

Album 2

1. Reel Of The 51st Division
Length: 5:45

2. Reel Of The 51st Division Encore
Length: 5:44

3. Hamilton House
Length: 5:34

4. Hamilton House Encore
Length: 5:34

5. Speed The Plough
Length: 5:41

6. Speed The Plough Encore
Length: 5:39

7. The Kandahar Reel
Length: 5:49

8. The Kandahar Reel Encore
Length: 5:40

Ted Christopher - A Million Smiles [CD]

2011-12-21T22:03:00.000Z

Ted's new album "A Million Smiles (with Scotland's Tartan Army)" 14 tracks of TA favourites.

1. Wild Mountain Thyme
2. Caledonia
3. Bonnie Dundee
4. Scotland Forever
5. Massacre of Glencoe
6. I'm Coming Home
7. Killiecrankie
8. The Lion Roars
9. On My Way to Balamory
10. Sailing
11. Scots Wha Hae
12. Loch Lomond/ Dignity
13. Flower of Scotland
14. Shang-a-doh-a-sausage road

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Scottish Music For Christmas

2011-12-08T21:40:00.000Z

A large selection of CDs and DVDs available for Christmas.

Full winners list for 2011 MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards

2011-12-05T21:46:00.000Z

The MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards were held in the Perth Concerts Hall on Friday 3rd December. A great evening of entertainment provided by a range of young and more experience artistes.

The Full List of deserving winners is as follows:

Album of the Year sponsored by Birnam CD Manran – Manran
Gaelic Singer of the Year sponsored by Macmeanmna Norrie MacIver
Instrumentalist of the Year sponsored by Temple Records Innes Watson
Music Tutor of the Year sponsored by Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative Mairi Campbell
Composer of the Year sponsored by PRS for Music Aidan O’ Rourke
Coda Music Venue of the Year Award Ben Nevis
Event of the Year sponsored by VisitScotland Orkney Folk Festival
Up and Coming Artist of the Year sponsored by The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Rura
Trad Music in the Media sponsored by ScottishCultureOnline.com Transatlantic Sessions
Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year sponsored by Traditional Music and Song Association Siobhan Miller
Community Project of the Year sponsored by Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust Blazin in Beauly
Live Act of the Year sponsored by Greentrax Recordings Skerryvore
Scottish Folk Band of the Year sponsored by All Celtic Music Battlefield Band
Pipe Band of the Year Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band
Scottish Dance Band of the Year sponsored by National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs Robert Nairn
Club of the Year sponsored by Royal Scottish Country Dance Society Leith Folk Club
Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame sponsored by Fèisean nan Gàidheal

2011 Inductees
John Watt
Pipe Major Ian Duncan
Billy Thom
Alasdair Fraser
Bert Jansch
Donald MacLeod, Islay
Tannahill Weavers
Bobby MacLeod

Services to Gaelic Music sponsored by Bòrd na Gàidhlig – Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches

Hamish Henderson Services to Traditional Music Award
Arthur Cormack

Maggie Adamson & Brian Nicholson - Hame Aboot [CD]

2011-12-01T23:40:00.000Z

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The champion fiddle player from Shetland Maggie Adamson works beautifully with the experienced guitar player Brian Nicholson to produce another stunning album. Nineteen toe-tapping tracks, with tunes new and old.

Bruce MacGregor and Christine Hanson - Kissin' Is the Best of A' [CD]

2011-11-23T11:04:00.000Z

New CD from Bruce MacGregor (Fiddle) and Christine Hanson ('cello). Two fine musical talents almost joust with one another getting the best from each. The fiddle & cello and occasionally joined by piano or guitar adding extra rhythm as if that were needed.

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June Imray - The Best Of The Torry Quine

2011-11-21T11:23:00.000Z

Best Of The Torry Quine CD and Book featuring June Imray.

Legendary north-east humourist/songster June Imray

Jambouree Choir

2011-11-11T09:10:00.000Z

New CD from the Jambouree Choir - A Song In Our Hearts (With John Scrimger and Edna Auld). 18 songs from the Perth based choir.

Lillias Scott Forbes - View From The Bench (My Life In Poetry)

2011-11-08T23:06:00.000Z

Lillias Scott Forbes - View From The Bench (My Life In Poetry)

Poetry in English & Scots. "Lillias Scott Forbes is one of Scotland's national treasures, a vivid and bright personality, a nonagenarian whose memory is magnificently stocked with perceptive accounts of a generation almost lost to our contemporaries." Prof. Alan Riach.

Edinburgh Military Tattoo

2011-11-02T16:11:00.000Z

Buy the 2011 Edinburgh Military Tattoo DVD and any any other Edinburgh Tattoo product available at www.musicinscotland.com to receive £1.00 off your order. Offer closes 11th November 2011.

New CD from Haddington Pipe Band

2011-11-01T21:59:00.000Z

This 30th anniversary 14 track CD showcases the band and a few guests, and the title track was the winning entry in a competition to find a pipe "anthem" for East Lothian.

Buy The Haddington Turnpike CD

Brandon McPhee is Scottish Junior Accordion Champion

2011-10-31T11:30:00.000Z

Congratulations to Brandon MacPhee on winning the Scottish Junior Accordion championship at Perth.

Transatlantic Sessions 2

2011-10-30T10:51:00.000Z

The Transatlantic Sessions 2 DVD continues to be our best selling DVD of 2011. It is jam packed with the best traditional music artistes from both sides of the Atlantic. Thoroughly recommended!

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Gordon Pattullo - Out Of My Hands [CD]

2011-10-28T19:41:00.000Z

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"Sometimes you have to go backawards to go forward" says Gordon, and that is just what he's done with this recording. Most of the tunes have been heard by Gordon many times before and now he has got around to recording them. Several of them have become standards and are well known to musicians and listeners alike. Gordon has chosen music from many traditional music locations from Tayside to Tennessee and also includes two of his most recent compositions.

Gordon Pattullo: Accordion
Angela MacEachern: Fiddle
John Crawford: Piano
Brian Cruickshank: Bass Guitar
Billy Young: Guitar & Banjo
Lucien Desharnais: Pedal Steel Guitar

1. Matthew & Karen’s Wedding March
2. Da Shetland Set (Dr James Robertson, Chadwick's Bog, The Kiwi Reel)
3. Medley (Amy's Waltz, Hunter's Hill, Willie Hunter's Compliments to Dan R MacDonald, Jackson's Bottle OF Claret, John McNeil)
4. Lady Elizabeth’s Air
5. Bagpipe Medley (Castle Dangerous, Arthur Bignold of Lochrosque, MacLeod Of Mull, The Train Journey North, Padruig Og)
6. The Tennessee Waltz
7. Edwin Flawes of Wyre
8. Water Sound Shore
9. Irish Hornpipes (The Golden Eagle, The Galway Hornpipe, The Quarrelsome Piper, Kitty's Wedding)
10. Up Beat (Airlie Bobbies, Anneliese)
11. Celtic Connections (Andy De Jarlis, The Telephone Box, The Idle Road, Trip To Wnidsor)
12. To The West (Calum's Road, The Islay Ranters, Frank's Reel)
13. Waltzes (The Boys Of The Mhari, Stewart & Margaret MvKay's Ruby Wedding)
14. French Canadian Polka

Royal National Mod Winners

2011-10-21T10:32:00.001Z

Congratulations to Catriona Watt and Niall Caimbeul for winning the ladies and mens An Comunn Gàidhealach Gold Medals.

For full results see Royal National Mod Results

Edinburgh Military Tattoo - 2011 [DVD]

2011-10-20T20:44:00.000Z

Buy Now - The 2011 Edinburgh Military Tattoo DVD

PLEASE NOTE that this DVD is dual format and is playable on any machine Worldwide.

The DVD features the full 90-minute show, including incredible performances by: the Massed Pipes and Drums, The Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments, The Brazilian Marine Corps Martial Band, The German Mountain Army Band, The Lone Piper, and The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.

The show reaches its crescendo during the Finale piece, which features the Massed Bands and Massed Pipes and Drums with music from the film How to Train Your Dragon.

Transatlantic Sessions 2 DVD - Buy Now

2011-09-12T14:49:00.000Z

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This DVD is playable only on machines which support the PAL format. Region 0 (worldwide).

The long awaited complete second series of The Transatlantic Sessions.

MUSIC DIRECTORS ALY BAIN & JERRY DOUGLAS

FEATURING

PAUL BRADY Vocals / Guitar / Mandolin
RONAN BROWNE Whistles
ROSANNE CASH Vocals / Guitar
RADNEY FOSTER Vocals / Guitar
JAMES GRANT Vocals
NANCI GRIFFITH Vocals / Guitar
BOO HEWERDINE Guitar
FIONA KENNEDY Vocals
JOHN LEVENTHAL Guitar
ISHBEL MACASKILL Vocals
IAIN MACDONALD Pipes
JOHN MARTYN Vocals / Guitar
KAREN MATHESON Vocals
MAURA O'CONNELL Vocals
EDDI READER Vocals / Guitar
SHARON SHANNON Accordion
DONALD SHAW Accordion / Keyboards
RICKY SKAGGS Vocals / Guitar
SHARON WHITE Vocals

TRANSATLANTIC HOUSE BAND
ALY BAIN Fiddle
JERRY DOUGLAS Dobro / Lap Steel Guitar
MICHAEL DOUCET Vocals / Fiddle
RUSS BARENBERG Guitar / Mandolin
BREDA SMYTH Fiddle / Whistles
DANNY THOMPSON Bass
TOMMY HAYES Percussion

PROGRAMME ONE

THE BLUE TRAIN
(Comp. Jennifer Kimball/Tom Kimmel)
MAURA O'CONNELL
with James Grant & Nanci Griffith

A SIMPLE LIFE / including a traditional Reel
(Comp. Mac McAnally) / (Trad. Arr. Bain)
RICKY SKAGGS

PIOBAIREACHD DHÒMHNAILL DHUIBH
(Trad. Arr. Aly Bain)
ISHBEL MACASKILL
with Iain MacDonald

HE GOT ALL THE WHISKEY
(Comp. B. Charles)
JOHN MARTYN
with Eddi Reader

MAGIC FOOT
(Comp. Russ Barenberg)
SHARON SHANNON
with Russ Barenberg

BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER
(Comp. Bob Dylan)
NANCI GRIFFITH

EUNICE TWO-STEP
(Trad source -. A Ardoin - Arr. Beausoleil - Orange Skies Music BMI)
MICHAEL DOUCET
with Sharon Shannon

PROGRAMME TWO

WAITING FOR THE FEDERALS
(Trad. Arr. Bain)
ALY BAIN

WHO KNOWS WHERE THE TIME GOES
(Composed. Sandy Denny)
NANCI GRIFFITH
with Karen Matheson, James Grant & Maura O'Connell

VIOLET TULLOCH - QUEEN OF LERWICK
(Composed. Phil Cunningham)
ALY BAIN
with Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg & Donald Shaw

THE WORLD IS WHAT YOU MAKE IT
(Comp. Paul Brady)
PAUL BRADY
with Karen Matheson & Fiona Kennedy

EVANGELINE
(Composed. James Grant)
JAMES GRANT
with Karen Matheson & Maura McConnell

JOLIE BLONDE
(Trad. Arr. Doucet)
MICHAEL DOUCET

TALK ABOUT SUFFERING / including a traditional Reel
(Adapted by Ricky Skaggs - Hall-clement publications (BMI) & Ricky Skaggs Music Arr. Ricky Skagg) / (Trad. Arr. Bain)
RICKY SKAGGS with Aly Bain

PROGRAMME THREE

TROUBLE IN THE FIELDS
(Comp. Nancy Griffith)
MAURA O'CONNELL
with Nancy Griffith

BACHELOR'S WALK / THE CONGRESS
(Comp. Breda Smyth / Trad. Arr. Smyth))
BREDA SMYTH

FOOTSTEPS FALL
(Comp. Boo Hewerdine / Bjergfeldt)
EDDI READER
with Boo Hewerdine

BONAPARTE'S RETREAT
(Trad. Arr. Bain)
ALY BAIN

SEVEN YEAR ACHE
(Comp. Rosanne Cash)
ROSANNE CASH

EXCUSE ME MISTER
(Comp. Ben Harper)
JOHN MARTYN

THERE'S ALWAYS SUNDAY
(Comp. James Grant)
KAREN MATHESON
with James Grant

PROGRAMME FOUR

HUMMINGBIRD
(Comp. Boo Hewerdine)
EDDI READER
with Boo Hewerdine

ROAD TO ABERDEEN
(Comp. Nanci Griffith)
NANCI GRIFFITH

URBAN AIR
(Comp. Ronan Browne)
RONAN BROWNE

STORMS ARE ON THE OCEAN
(Comp. A P Carter)
SHARON WHITE
with Ricky Skaggs

LA DANSE DE LA VIE
(Comp. Michael Doucet)
MICHAEL DOUCET
with Sharon Shannon

AE FOND KISS
(Robert Burns)
KAREN MATHESON
with Paul Brady

GOD KNOWS WHEN
(Radney Foster)
RADNEY FOSTER

PROGRAMME FIVE

NACH TRUAGH LEAT MI STÚN EIRINN
(Trad. Arr. Kennedy)
FIONA KENNEDY
with Karen Matheson

WESTERN LIFT / GLASS OF BEER / UNNAMED REEL
(Trad. Arr. Shannon)
SHARON SHANNON

CURE FOR LIFE
(Composed.James Grant)
JAMES GRANT

MARRIAGE MADE IN HOLYWOOD
(Composed.Paul Brady / Michael O'Keeve)
PAUL BRADY
with Karen Matheson

A TRIBUTE TO PAEDAR O'DONNELL / TAKARASAKA
(Composed.Dónal Lunny / Composed. Jerry Douglas)
JERRY DOUGLAS

GOD SPEED
(Composed. Radney Foster)
RADNEY FOSTER

PROGRAMME SIX

FORTY SHADES OF GREEN
(Composed. Johnny Cash)
ROSANNE CASH

PASSING THE BAR
(Composed. Jerry Douglas)
JERRY DOUGLAS

MY FATHER'S SON
(Composed Ricky Skaggs / George M Green)
RICKY SKAGGS

LES VEUVES DE LA COULEE (Windows of The Creek)
(Trad. Arr. Russ Barenberg)
RUSS BARENBERG

ALWAYS WILL
(Composed Nanci Griffith)
NANCI GRIFFITH
with Ricky Skaggs & Sharon White

NOBODY WINS
(Composed Radney Foster/Kim Richey)
RADNEY FOSTER
with Eddi Reader

PROGRAMME SEVEN

RETURN TO THE BRANDYWINE
(Composed. Russ Barenberg)
RUSS BARENBERG

SEPTEMBER WHEN IT COMES
(Composed. Rosanne Cash / John Leventhal)
ROSANNE CASH
with John Leventhal

'SANSEPTIQUE' SET:
DOMHNALL DUBH AN DOMHNALLAICH / THOIR A NALL AILEAN THUGAM / SANSEPTIQUE
(Trad. Arr. Haynes Kennedy) / (Trad Arr. Hayes/Kennedy) / (Composed Tommy Hayes)
TOMMY HAYES with FIONA KENNEDY & KAREN MATHESON

DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS
(Trad. / Lyrics. W.B. Yeats / Arr. O'Connell)
MAURA O'CONNELL
with Karen Matheson

THE MANSION ON THE HILL
(Composed. Hank Williams)
SHARON WHITE
with Ricky Skaggs

SOLID AIR
(Composed. John Martyn)
JOHN MARTYN
with Danny Thompson

'PUERT A BEUL' SET:
O MHISG A'CHUIR A NOLLAIG OIRNN / CAPE BRETON PORT A BEUL / ANN MACKEACHNIE'S FAVOURITE / BEALACH A'CHARA
(Trad. Arr. Iain MacDonald)
IAIN MACDONALD

Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory - Live In Concert [CD]

2011-09-06T20:59:00.000Z

Shetland fiddler Chris is joined for a live concert by musical friends from home and Brazil for a heady cocktail of innovatively fused styles and traditions. Scottish fiddle, harp and melodeon blend with Brazilian rabeca, sax, guitar & bass. Uplifting!

Chris Stout's Brazilian Theory MP3 samples

Kirriemuir Festival - 2,3,4 September 2011

2011-09-02T06:31:00.000Z

One of Scotland’s longest running traditional music festivals. A splendid weekend of ceilidhs, concerts and competitions with a lively session scene.

Tel. 01575 540 261
info@kirriefesttival.org
www.kirriefestival.org

Willie Lawrie - Gleann Bhaile Chaoil

2011-08-24T21:13:00.000Z

This CD includes 21 tracks of mostly Traditional Scottish Accordion Music by Willie Lawrie on piano accordion, Jimmy Cassidy on 2nd accordion, bass and keyboards and Graham Sherrit on drums.

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Edinburgh Military Tattoo - 2011 [CD]

2011-08-17T20:40:00.000Z

Recorded live on the Castle Esplanade, the stunning music from The 2011 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Featuring performances by the Massed Pipes and Drums, The Band of the Royal Netherlands Army Mounted Regiments, The Brazilian Marine Corps Martial Band, The German Mountain Army Band, The Lone Piper, and The Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines.

The show reaches its crescendo during the Finale piece, which features the Massed Bands and Massed Pipes and Drums with music from the film How to Train Your Dragon.

Buy Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2011 CD

Scottish Fiddle Orchestra - 30 Glorious Years CD

2011-08-10T21:12:00.000Z

A set of 3 CDs each covering a different decade and featuring some of the highlights of the Orchestra's successful reign as Scotland's premier Fiddle Orchestra. Beautiful traditional Scottish tunes, fast and slow, along with newer compositions.

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New CD - Concerto Caledonia & Guests - Revenge Of The Folksinger

2011-08-07T14:09:00.000Z

Concerto Caledonia teamed up with Alasdair Roberts, Mairi Campbell, Olivia Chaney, Jim Moray & David McGuiness to create an innovative mix of nu-folk with an early music sensibility which defies categorisation.

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