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Various Artists
The Music And Song Of The Great Tapestry Of Scotland
[CDTRAX372] - 2 in Stock
This album is being released in association with The Great Tapestry Of Scotland which is currently being stitched on panels designed by the artist Andrew Crummy, and will go on exhibition in 2013.
The Tapestry, which will be longest in the world when complete, has been given the stamp of approval by The Scottish Parliament. Greentrax was invited to release a double album of songs and music representing forty of the panels.
Disk 1 : Orkney (Gordon Gunn), O Pater Patriae - (The Monks of Pluscarden), Clann Domhnaill An Cogadh Righ Tearlach; MacDonald's March To The Wars (Margaret Stewart), Bannockburn (Skyedance), Leaving Lerwick Harbour (Willie Hunter), Flowers o' The Forrest (Corporal Neil McNaughton), The Toun O' Prestonpans (The Infants of Prestonpans Primary School), Kinmont Willie (Ross Kennedy), The Massacre of Glencoe (Alastair McDonald), Dreams of Darien (The Paul McKenna Band), Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation (Rod Paterson), 'S Muladach Mi's Air M' Aineol/Walking Song (Bannal), Bonnie Prince Charlie (The McCalmans), Duthaich MhicAoidh; Mackay Country Sutherland (Kathleen Macinnes), Burke & Hare (Robin Laing), Ae Fond Kiss (Gill bowman), Old Minmore (Robin Laing), The Forth Bridge Song (Robin Laing), Flower of Scotland (The Scottish Rugby Grand Slam Team of 1990), Muir and The Master Builder (Brian McNeill)
Disk 2 : Coinneamh Nan Croitearan - (The Crofter's Meeting) (Catherine-Ann Macphee), Tusitala (Benny Gallagher), If It Wisnae For The Union (Hamish Imlach), No Man's Land; The Greenfields of France (Eric Bogle), Oran Nan 'Iolaire'; Song of The Iolaire (Catherine-Ann Macphee), The Beaches of St Valery/Elizabeth Clare (The Battlefield Band with Davy Steele), The Ballad of The D-Day Dodgers (Rod Paterson), The Hebrides - Fingal's Cave - Overtire (The Scottish National Orchestra), The Jeely Piece Song (Adam McNaughtan), Who Pays The Piper (The McCalmans), Letter From America (The Proclaimers), Pack UP Your Tools and Go (Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor), Our Glens (Scotland the What?), Both Sides The Tweed (Dick Gaughan), Ally's Tartan Army (Andy Cameron), Blantyre (Alex Hodgson), Canan Nan Gaidheal; Language of The Gael (Catherine-Ann Macphee), A Man's a Man For A' That (Sheena Wellington), The Wild Geese (Jim Reid), An Ataireachd Ard; The Eternal Surge of The Sea (Ishbel MacAskill)