Tag Archives: other instruments groups and bands

1997.236.1.1

Audio cassette recording of two ceilidhs.

“Am phiob an bosca `s am fhidheal” (1979). Murray Omand and Gordon Connel on accordions, John Currie on the bagpipes, songs by May Margaret MacDonald, Iain MacLeod, Lachie MacFarlane and Archie MacEachern. Side A: P.M. Willie Gray, Lady Lever Park, Miss Mary Douglas, Miss Campbell of Saddel, Angus MacLeod, A Chailean Mhaiseach Dhonn, Fagail Braigh Bhalla, Tir mo Graidh, Dornoch Links, Ter-Bus, Balachan Ban, Castle Kennedy, Battle of the Somme. Side B: Soraid Leis an Ait, Fagaiv an Bata a Phort-righ, Mull of the Cool High Bens, Farewell to the Tay, P.M. Iain Maclennan, Scottish Horse, Whistling Rufus. “Ceum Ur” (1978) Campbell Brown, Ewan MacKinnon, Neil MacLean and Angus MacPherson on accordions, Come by the Hills, Castle Dangerous. Song by Myra Gillespie (Brown): Cadal Cha Dean Mi. Side B: Murray Omand and Gordon Connell on accordions (other musicians not identified).

1997.240.1

Audio cassette recording of Alasdair Sinclair of Greenhill, Hugh MacLean of Barrapol and Hector MacPhail of Ruaig recorded by Dr John Holliday on 9/11/1995.

Angus and Hugh MacLean, Hector MacPhail, Alasdair Sinclair and Dr John Holliday ceilidh in Greenhill in November 1995 and discuss the genealogy of the MacLeans of Rossdhu, Cornaig and Middleton and the MacDonalds of Kilmoluaig, the poems of William MacPhail of Croish and of John MacDonald of Heanish, the genealogy of the MacKinnons of Odhnasgair (Orisgeal), fiddler and clarsach player Kate Orisgeal; Hector and Hugh tell sea-faring stories and Alasdair quotes numerous riddles. Tha Aonghas agus Eòghann MhicIllEathain, Eachann MhicPhàil, Alasdair Mac na Cearda agus an Dotair Iain Holliday air chèilidh ann an Grianail anns an t-Samhain 1995, a’ rannsachaidh sloinnearachd muinntir MhicIllEathain a Rossdhu, Còrnaig agus am Baile Meadhanach agus na Dòmhnallaich a Cill Moluaig, òrain Uilleam Mhic Phàil as a’ Chrois agus Iain Dòmhnallach a Hianais, sloinntearachd clann MhicFhionghain a Odhrasgair, Ceit Odhrasgair, cluicheadair fidheall agus clàrsach; tha Eachann agus Eòghann ag innse sgeulachdan fairge agus Alasdair a’ cur iomadach toimhseachan orra.