Take the Floor Boxing Day Party
For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for a Boxing Day party on Take the Floor.
For the very best in traditional music and song, join Gary Innes for a Boxing Day party on Take the Floor. We have a festive session recorded in 2016 in our Aberdeen bistro studio from Nicol McLaren and his band. The perfect session to get you dancing round the living room with plenty of Christmas tunes.
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Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
Nicol McLaren Lead Accordion
Gordon Howe Fiddle
Hamish Smith Accordion
Isobelle Hodgson Piano
John Sinton Double Bass
David Bell Drums
TITLE: Kate Dalrymple
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Set of Reels
a) Santa Claus is Coming to Town [Trad]
b) Go, Tell it on the Mountain [Trad]
c) Ding Dong Merrily on High [Trad]
d) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen [Trad]
e) Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly [Trad]
f) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer [Trad]
g) Good King Wenceslas [Trad]
h) Santa Claus is Coming to Town [Trad]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Jigs 4X40
a) In Dulci Jubilo [Trad]
b) Fairytale of New York [Jem Finer & Shane MacGowan]
c) The Snowmen's Dance [Howard Blake]
d) Saviour's Day [Chris Eaton]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: White Heather Fox Trot
a) It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas [Meredith Willson]
b) Eveytbody's Waiting For the Man With The Bag [Irving Taylor, Dudley Brooks, and Hal Stanley]
c) Let it Snow [Jule Styne]
d) Winter Wonderland [Felix Bernard]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Gaelic Waltz
a) My Mother [Trad]
b) Leaving Skye [Trad]
c) Sine Bhan [Trad]
d) My Beloved Uist [Trad]
e) Fair Haired Lad [Trad]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Stirling at 90
a) New Brig o' Ayr [Trad]
b) Marie MacLean's Reel [Dan R MacDonald]
c) Astryd's Peerie Tune [Ronnie Jamieson]
d) Laxo Burn [Arthur Scott Robertson]
e) Bill Morris of Bressay [Ian R Muir]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Strathspey
a) The Christmas Song [Mel Torme & Richard Wells]
b) Walking in the Air [Howard Blake]
c) I Believe in Father Christmas [Greg Lake]
d) White Christmas [Irving Berlin]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Two Step
a) I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas [John Rox]
b) Gee, I Wish I Was Back in the Army [Irving Berlin]
c) Christmas in Killarney [John Redmond, James Cavanaugh & Frank Weldon]
d) The Old Man [Irving Berlin]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: 8x32 Reels
a) I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus [Tommie Connor]
b) Stop the Cavalry [Jona Lewie]
c) Wonderful Christmas Time [Paul McCartney]
d) Merry Christmas Everyone [Bob Heatlie]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Fiona's Polka
a) I Wish it Could Be Christmas Every Day [Roy Wood]
b) All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth Donald [Yetter Gardner]
c) Rocking Around the Christmas Tree [Johnny Marks]
d) Jingle Bell Rock [Joseph Carleton Beal and James Ross Boothe]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Waltz - Tribute to Jim MacLeod
a) Its Christmas in Dornie [Jim MacLeod]
b) Sad Songs of the Islands [Unknown]
c) My Wee Laddie [Jim MacLeod/Moira Kerr]
d) Whisky on a Sunday [Glynn Hughes]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: 4x32 Jigs
a) Joy to the World [Trad]
b) I Saw Three Ships [Trad]
c) We Three Kings of Orient Are [Trad]
d) When Santa Got Stuck Up the Chimney [Trad]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: 4x32 Reels
a) Six White Boomers [Rolf Harris & John Brown]
b) Jingle Bells [Trad]
c) Here Comes Santa Clause [Trad]
c) Frosty the Snowman [Trad]
ARTIST: Glencraig Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Welcome Christmas Morning
TRK: S2 B6
ARTIST: Jimmy Shand Junior
LP: The Magic of Shand
LABEL/CAT NR: GES 1207
TITLE: In The Bleak Midwinter
TRK: Single
ARTIST: Iona Fyfe
CD: Single
LABEL/CAT NR: Cairnie Records
TITLE: When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney / Frosty the Snowman
TRK: 13
ARTIST: John Carmichael Band
CD: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Scotland
LABEL/CAT NR: Crimson - CRIMCD07
TITLE: The Christmas Eve Waltz
TRK: 4
ARTIST: Marie Fielding
CD: An Seisiun
LABEL/CAT NR: RUMFORDCD03
TITLE: Bha Buachaillean An Duthaich Shear
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Julie Fowlis
CD: Brigh Na Nollaig
LABEL/CAT NR: Eyeline Media- HH2011001
TITLE: Christmas Reels
TRK: 7
ARTIST: Jim Lindsay and his Band
CD: Scottish Christmas Dance Party
LABEL/CAT NR: Highlander Music – HRMCD015
TITLE: It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
TRK: 5
ARTIST: Karen Matheson
CD: Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical Records - VERTCD103
TITLE: The Christmas Song / Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
TRK: 10
ARTIST: Gordon Pattullo
CD: The Accordion at Christmas
LABEL/CAT NR: GPCD 008
TITLE: Christ Child Lullaby
TRK: S 1 B 3
ARTIST: Kenneth McKellar
CD: Famous Sacred Song
LABEL/CAT NR: SW 99601
TITLE: Christmas Medley
ARTIST: John Burns and friends
John Burns Recording
TITLE: Little Donkey
TRK: 10
ARTIST: Tim Edey
CD: The Sleeping Tunes Vol 2
LABEL/CAT NR: Gnatbite Records
TITLE: Twentyplenty
TRK: Single
ARTIST: Anna Massie
CD Single
LABEL/CAT NR: Aye Like Music
TITLE: Silent Night
TRK: 14
ARTIST: Daniel O’ Donnell
CD: Christmas with Daniel
LABEL/CAT NR: RITZ BCD 704
TITLE: A Christmas Special
Jingle Bells / Grand Old Duke of York / Loch Lomond / Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
TRK: 12
ARTIST: Fergie MacDonald
CD: The Ceilidh King
LABEL/CAT NR: Rannoch Music Moidart – CD106
TITLE: Chickadee's Christmas, 365 Days Till Christmas, A Tribute To Larry Reynolds
TRK: 6
ARTIST: Phil Cunningham And Friends
CD: Phil Cunningham's Christmas Songbook
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical Records - VERTCD103
Broadcast
- Boxing Day 202019:00BBC Radio Scotland
