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John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We treat you to a great band session from John Carmichael and his Scottish Dance Band.

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We treat you to a great band session from John Carmichael and his Scottish Dance Band. This session was the first recorded for Take the Floor in BBC Scotland's new home of Pacific Quay in Glasgow in September 2007.

And Gary's guest is Gaelic singer and Celtic Harp player, Maggie MacInnes.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Sep 202119:00

Playlist

John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
John Carmichael Accordion
Marie Fielding Fiddle
Billy Thom Drums
John Sinton Bass
Denis Morrison Piano
Billy Young Banjo and guitar

TITLE: Kate Dalrymple
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) The Minstrel Boy [Trad]
b) Muirsheen Durkin
c) Whiskey in the Jar
d) Boys of Killybegs [T. Makem]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Maxwell’s Rant
a) Original [Trad]
b) Island Spinning Song [Trad]
c) Cutting Bracken [Trad]
d) Cockle Gatherers [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance
a) MacLean of Pennycross [P/M Ferguson]
b) The Cowal Gathering [J MacLellan]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Circassian Circle
a) Original [Trad]
b) Staten Island [Trad]
c) Highland Lassie [J Johnstone]
d) The Down Express [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
a) Come o’er The Stream Charlie [Trad]
b) Laird O’ Cockpen [Caroline Nairn]
c) Leezie Lindsay [Trad]
d) Sound the Pibroch [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Macdonald Of The Isles
a) Stirling Castle [Trad]
b) Earl Grey [Skinner]
c) The Miller O’ Hirn [Skinner] 
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Boston Twostep
a) Leaving Port Askaig [W Ross]
b) The Maids of Kintail [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Marie Fiddle Selection
a) Trip to Turnberry [M. Fielding]
b) County Mac Kilmoyles Reel [Trad]
c) First Century Reel [Trad] 
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Chequered Court Jig 
a) Lady Charlotte Murray [Gow] 
b) Edmund MacKenzie [A Rankine]
c) Anne Fraser Mac Kenzie [B MacLeod]
d) Maria Stewart [Trad]
e) Campbell’s Frolic [Trad]
f) John Grumlie [Trad]
g) The Weaver [A Rankine] 
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) Original [Trad]
b) Kathleen’s Reel [A Rankine]
c) Snouts and Ears [Shetland Music]
d) The Red House [Trad]
e) Far from Home [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Gaelic Waltz
a) Farewell to Ness [Trad]
b) My Beloved Isle [Trad]
c) My young maid [Trad]
d) Faithful Fair One [Trad]
e) Farewell to Gunna [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Autumn In Appin
a) Hills of Lorne [Hunter]
b) Flower O’ the Quern [Skinner]
c) Music of Spey [Skinner]
d) A Man’s a Man [Trad]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) Skye Crofter’s [Trad]
b) Leaving Lunga [J Gordon]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Gaelic Air
a) Canan Nan Gaidheal [MacFarlane]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Strip The Willow
a) The Eavesdropper [Trad]
b) Tenpenny Bit [Trad]
c) Biddy Daly [Trad]
d) Banks of the Allan [Trad]
e) Morrison’s Jig [Trad]
f) Charlie Hunter [B MacLeod]
ARTIST: John Carmichael Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Box 2 by 4s
Jennifer MacKenzie of Plockton/ Brian Bell
TRK: 11
ARTIST: Tom Orr Scottish Dance Band
CD: Off the Beaten Track
LABEL/CAT NR: CPR002

TITLE: York Boat
TRK: 4
ARTIST: Graham Rorie
CD: The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
LABEL/CAT NR: RUMS02CD 

TITLE: The Living Water- An Cuan Beo
TRK: 4
ARTIST: Ingrid Henderson
CD: Message in a Bottle
LABEL/CAT NR:

TITLE: Highland Barn Dance
John MacDonald of Glencoe/ The Portree Men
TRK: S2 B2
ARTIST: Andrew Rankine and his Scottish Dance Band
LP: Westering Home
LABEL/CAT NR: GES 1141

TITLE: Caolas Eadar mi is Iain
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Maggie MacInnes
CD: Port Bàn
LABEL/CAT NR: MARCD06

TITLE: A’ Mhic Iain 'ic Sheumais
TRK: 15
ARTIST: Flora MacNeil
CD: Orain nan Gaidheal
LABEL/CAT NR: GREENTRAX5008

TITLE: The Broom O the Cowdenknowes
TRK:
ARTIST: Silly Wizzard
CD: Caledonia’s Hardy Sons
LABEL/CAT NR:

TITLE: O Chraobh nan Ubhal
TRK: 5 
ARTIST: Maggie MacInnes
CD: Port Bàn
LABEL/CAT NR: MARCD06

TITLE: Giving Back
TRK: 11
ARTIST: Graham Rorie
CD: The Orcadians of Hudson Bay
LABEL/CAT NR: RUMS02CD

TITLE: Riverside Jig
TRK: 5
ARTIST: Alan Crookston Ceilidh Band
CD: Note Again
LABEL/CAT NR: GLRCD1701 

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Sep 202119:00