Scottish Folk Music
Turaloora
Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
or just more folk like Scottish music! Any reccomendations? Thank You
Tura
Tom
What a question!!
There are so many possibilities. For instance, for traditional-style
Celtic music, I'd recommend Silly Wizard's "Live Wizardry," the
Tannahill Weavers' "Cullen Bay" and "Dancing Feet," and pretty much
anything by Dervish, Deanta and a host of others.
For more of a "plugged" sound, a la Wolfstone and Runrig, then I'd
suggest More Power to Your Elbow, Fairport Convention, Leahy, the Oyster
Band, Tempest, etc.
The list could go on and on.
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GreeneKing
My top two recommendations (note these are more traditional than Wolfstone
or Runrig) would be Silly Wizard and The Old Blind Dogs. Hope that helps!
Craig Cockburn
Ann an sgriobhainn <341F54...@hotmail.com>, sgriobh Turaloora
<Tura...@hotmail.com>
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>Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
>and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
>Tura
I'd suggest "Crosswinds" and "Sidewaulk" and "Cascade" by Capercaillie
as well as anything by Sileas. You might also like "An unfair dance" by
Ceolbeg.
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SGPRetc
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>Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
>and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
>or just more folk like Scottish music! Any reccomendations? Thank You
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You'd love the Temple Records collection. You can get their catalog on
line at:
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple
or through Rounder Records in Cambridge, Mass.
If you need further information, contact me:
sandy_g...@hotmail.com
Temple Records has been issuing the best Scottish Music for the past 20 years.
The incredible Battlefield Band is on that label. If you've not heard
them, check out their webpage at:
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.html.
Happy Listening!
Sandy Goldfarb
Publicist for Temple Records & Battlefield Band (N.A.)
Lorraine Rollo
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> >and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
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> You'd love the Temple Records collection. You can get their catalog on
> line at:
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> or through Rounder Records in Cambridge, Mass.
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> If you need further information, contact me:
> sandy_g...@hotmail.com
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> Temple Records has been issuing the best Scottish Music for the past 20 years.
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> The incredible Battlefield Band is on that label. If you've not heard
> them, check out their webpage at:
> http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.html
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> Sandy Goldfarb
> Publicist for Temple Records & Battlefield Band (N.A.)
>ALSO TRY TANNAHILL WEAVERS AND SILLY WIZARD. FOR GREAT IRISH TRY ALTAN AND BOTHY BAND AVAILABLE THRU GREEN LINNET RECORDS. greenlinnet.com
Timothy Jaques
Archie Fisher is well worth a listen, although he cannot be classed as
Manic Celtic in his style.
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Timothy Jaques
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
"Men's evil manners live in brass: their virtues we write in water."
SGPRetc <sgp...@aol.com> wrote in article
<19970921173...@ladder01.news.aol. quoting someone named Tura who
posted originally,
Dr John Barrow
SGPRetc (sgp...@aol.com) wrote:
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: >Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
: >and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
: >or just more folk like Scottish music! Any reccomendations? Thank You
: >Tura
Check out GREENTRAX RECORDINGS - some 150 or so albums
in the catalogue including Dick Gaughan, Sileas, Deaf
Shepherd, Burach, McCalmans, Eric Bogle, along with
fiddlers, pipers, accordionists, Gaelic singers -
"the lot", in other words.
Also, Lismor Records springs to mind. And Lapwing.
Surf for Capercaillie, Silly Wizard too.
jb
:-)
Craig Cockburn
Ann an sgriobhainn <19970921173...@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
sgriobh SGPRetc <sgp...@aol.com>
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>>Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
>>and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
>>or just more folk like Scottish music! Any reccomendations? Thank You
this may help
[4.23] Scottish Groups/Folk Groups/Artists and Bands
Alphabetic order by artist (Surname) or group
Aly Bain http://www.ticketserver.co.uk/cgi-bin/client.pl?action=
parse&verifyfor=startup&session=38716&file=aly_bain/default.htm&time=867
185314
Battlefield Band http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.ht
ml
Eric Bogle http://www.windbourne.com/ebogle/
Borrovan http://freespace.virgin.net/stewart.mackay/
Boys of the Lough http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/ob
m/botl1.htm
Art Cormack http://www.gael-net.co.uk/music/arthur1.html
Capercaillie http://www.colloquium.co.uk/capercaillie/
Ceolbeg http://celtic.stanford.edu/artists/Ceolbeg.html
Corries http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Gavin_Browne/
Phil Cunningham http://www.philcunningham.com/
Ivan Drever http://www.highland-explorer.co.uk/wolfstone/drever.
htm
Gaberlunzie http://www.demon.co.uk/gaberlunzie/
Dick Gaughan http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/
Mary Jane Lamond http://www.chatsubo.com/mjlamond/
Dougie MacLean http://www.dunkeld.co.uk/dougie%20maclean/dougie.
htm
Brian McNeill http://www.b-mcneill.demon.co.uk/
Old Blind Dogs http://lummi.stanford.edu/users/b/r/brod/WWW/OBD/
OldBlindDogs.html
Poozies http://www.cutting-tweed.demon.co.uk/poozies.htm
Rock Salt & Nails http://www.collins-peak.co.uk/rsn/
Runrig http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/scotz/runrig.htm
Janet Russell http://www.rootsworld.com/harbourtown/russell.html
Sileas http://www.fb15.uni-dortmund.de/voelker/poozies/sileas.ht
ml
Silly Wizard http://www.rootsworld.com/harbourtown/silly_wizard.
html
Tannahill Weavers http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/tanna
hill_weavers/
Whistlebinkies http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/binkies/
Wolfstone http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/howl/
See also
Folk Music Home Page http://www.jg.org/folk/info/artists.html
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Country_or_C
ulture/Celtic/
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Entertainment/Music/Artists/By_Genre/Folk/
There is a specifically Scottish page on the Ceolas site at:
http://celtic.stanford.edu/artists/index-sc.html
Rootsworld http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/artists.html
General Links and Music Magazines
http://celtic.stanford.edu/ceolas.html Ceolas celtic music archive
http://www.celticmusic.com/ Celtic Music Magazine Online
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/2030/indexe.html The Mollis (Folk
Music Links)
http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/ Dirty Linen--Folk and World
Music
http://www.iol.ie/hotpress/ HOT PRESS Home Page
http://www.cityscape.co.uk/froots/ Folk Roots Home Page
http://webzone1.co.uk/www/scotsweb/ Scotsweb--Scottish Music on
the Internet
http://www.collins-peak.co.uk/celtic/ Celtic Music at Collins Peak
Tune and Song Sources
http://www.deltablues.com/dbsearch.html Digital Traditions Folksong
Database Search Page
http://celtic.stanford.edu/tunes/fc/ Ceolas: The Fiddler's
Companion
http://psa-usr12.ucdavis.edu/richard/music/tuneweb/ The TuneWeb
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/1690/lyrics.html Scottish Song
Lyrics
Music Venues and Concert Schedules
http://www.gigguide.co.uk/ Live Music Listings in Scotland
http://www.scotnet.co.uk/grch/ The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
http://www.bbc.co.uk/aberdeen/lemtree/lemnhome.htm Live at The Lemon
Tree
http://www.doughill.demon.co.uk/brenn2.html
An 'Irish' pub but supports mostly Scottish celtic acts.
Performers
http://www.ticketserver.co.uk/cgi-bin/client.pl?action=parse&verifyfor=s
tartup&session=38716&file=aly_bain/default.htm&time=867185314 Aly
Bain's Home Page
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.html Battlefield Band
http://ourworld.compuserve.com:80/homepages/obm/botl1.htm Boys of the
Lough
http://www.demon.co.uk/gaberlunzie/ Gaberlunzie
http://tigermoth.aero.gla.ac.uk:8080/TheLand/TheLand.html The Land -
The Dougie MacLean Homepage
http://www.dunkeld.co.uk/dougie%20maclean/dougie.html Dougie MacLean
http://lummi.stanford.edu/users/b/r/brod/WWW/OBD/OldBlindDogs.html
Old Blind Dogs Home Page
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/ad653/runrig.htm Unofficial
Runrig Page
http://www.mindspring.com/~cwalters/rovers.html The Ramblin' Rovers
(Home page of the Silly Wizard mailing list)
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~android/rnoakes.html
http://dim.chemie.uni-bielefeld.de/~nsg/index.html
Musical Styles and Cultural Connections
http://www.electricscotland.com/dalriada/culture/music/index.html
Dalriada Celtic Heritage Trust: Music
http://maya.lib.utk.edu/celtic.html Celtic Culture, Languages and
Music
http://calligrafix.co.uk/burns/ Robert Burns, poet (1759-96)
http://www.innotts.co.uk/~asperges/burns.html Robert Burns page
Instruments
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/
Lark In The Morning
http://www-th.phys.rug.nl/~nijhof/accordions.html Accordion links
http://pipes.tico.com/pipes/ The Bagpipe Web
http://www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/~bdaye/bagpipes.html David Daye's
Bagpipe Page
http://celtic.stanford.edu/instruments/bodhran/bodhran.html The
Bodhran Page
http://www-openmap.bbn.com/users/gkeith/fiddles/Fiddle.html Georgi's
Home Page of the Fiddle
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~arte/celtic.html Celtic Fingerstyle
Guitar Page
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Art
TransFlute Transverse Flutes: An Overview
http://www.mhs.mendocino.k12.ca.us/MenComNet/Business/Retail/Larknet/Art
FlutesWhist FLUTES AND PENNYWHISTLES
http://infomatique.iol.ie:8080/Ceiliweb/whistle.html The Whistle Web
http://www.mindspring.com/~whistler/tutor.html Mike Simpson's Tin
Whistle Guide
Record labels
http://tayberry.com/ Tayberry Music - Celtic Music
http://www.goodnet.com/~slywiz/ Divine Celtic Sounds
http://www.dunkeld.co.uk/ Dunkeld Records
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/2030/labele.html Folk Labels
online
http://www.gael-linn.ie/welcome.html Gael-Linn
http://www.gael-net.co.uk/eisd/index.html Eisd
http://www.greenlinnet.com/ Green Linnet/Xenophile
http://www.rounder.com/ Rounder Records Catalogue
http://www.dmn.com/shanachie/ Shanachie
http://www.rootsworld.com/harbourtown/ Harbourtown Records
http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/labels.html Trad music record labels
donovan
Craig- that was very thorough except you left out my favorite- Ossian (no
URL I guess).
Brent Rutherford
> Just started listening to scottish folk music such as Runrig wolfstone
> and others but i am interested in picking up some good traditional folk
> or just more folk like Scottish music! Any reccomendations? Thank You
> Tura
I am certain all of the artists listed are good examples of Scottish
folksong. Of those mentioned almost everyone agrees that Dick Gaughan
is an immense talent. Besides Gaughan I also very much enjoy
Jean Redpath, Heather Heywood and Sheena Wellington. They all
sing a fair number of Child ballads along with some fine lyric songs.
Charles R. Fowler
In article <brent-24099...@pm25-1-men-a21.mcn.org>,
br...@mcn.org (Brent Rutherford) wrote:
Someone to keep your ears open for is a new artist, Paddy Roy, who is
singing many of the tarditional Scottish tunes in gaelic. At the moment she
is on a recording as guest artist singing four tunes.
You can check out the recording and I know there is at least one tune sample
that can be downloaded as wave sample or listen to on realaudio 3.0.
The Strayaway Child
http://www2.netcom.com/~crfowler/record.htm
The tune sample of Paddy Roy is
Oran gillean Alasdair mhor
Mar sin leat,
Chas.
L Hay
also try out Capercallie.. they're pretty good too.
Brent Rutherford <br...@mcn.org> wrote in article
<brent-24099...@pm25-1-men-a21.mcn.org>...
RArmstr859
Definitely check out The Best of Silly Wizard and the Tannahill Weavers,
also The Dougie McLean Collection for more folky stuff.
Colin R. Paton
L Hay wrote:
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> also try out Capercallie.. they're pretty good too.
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night. They were brilliant! The last couple of times I heard them, I
thought they'd lost the place a bit, but they're right back on top form
now that they have a new player (Malcolm McGoldrick I think - apologies
if I've got that wrong) on flute, whistle and Uillean pipes. They also
brought along the two women from Sibeba - that was an inspired move! See
them if you can... their current tour is coming to an end, but I'm sure
they'll be on the road again shortly.
Cheers,
Colin.
Allen Garvin
In article <01bcc87e$48337e60$a232...@koyote.koyote.com>,
donovan <don...@koyote.com> wrote:
>Craig- that was very thorough except you left out my favorite- Ossian (no
>URL I guess).
http://www.lismor.co.uk/ossian.html
Ossian is great. I discovered them by complete chance when I bought an album
of theirs in London, on the grounds that it had a single Robbie Burns song
I liked (Corn Rigs are Bonny). They need a really good US distributor, though.
--
Allen Garvin kisses are a better fate
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http://faeryland.tamu-commerce.edu/~earendil e e cummings
Robin Morton
Battlefield Band one of the Scotland's leading bands will be
touring the US in November/December. If you check out their
webpage, you will get full details. The url is:
http://www.rootsworld.com/temple/battlefield.html
Hope you get a chance to see them, as I am sure you will enjoy
them.