
David Cunningham 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 2005, from David Cunningham and his band.
For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We treat you to a great band session from 2005, from David Cunningham and his band. Gary is then joined by this week's guest, Mike Vass. A member of Malinky, an accomplished solo musician and composer, and now the new Head of Plockton Music School, Mike chats about his career so far, and how he is faring in his new role.
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David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
David Cunningham Lead accordion
Neil Galloway 2nd accordion
Fiona Leggat Fiddle
Graham Berry Keyboard
Ian Adamson Drums
TITLE: The Blooms Of Bon Accord
Original: Cocker’s Roses (Trad)
Carol the Pointer (Robert Black)
Deveron Reel
Loch Torridon
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Haddo House
Miss Gordon of Haddo (Alice MacLennan)
Warwick’s Land (A. Rankine)
Lauren Rose Patrick’s Jig (I. Holmes)
Strawberries Galore (D. Ridley)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Monymusk
Original (Trad)
Jessie Smith (Trad)
South of the Grampians (James Porteous)
Blin’ Jamie (Trad)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Trip To Aberdeen
Original – The Braes of Elchies (Charles Grant)
Miss Katrina Margaret Douglas (John Douglas)
The Fourth of February (C.F.Sherrit)
A Tune for Derek (D. R. Cunningham)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
Gold and Silver (Franz Lehar)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Gay Gordons
Miss Linda MacFarlane (R. Brock)
Crossing the Alps (Trad)
Leslie Angus (Jim Halcrow)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Elphinstone Jig
The Laird of Cockpen (Trad)
The Ruby Wedding (N Barron)
Drookit Donald (C.F Sherrit)
The Parson (Trad)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: The Belle Of Bon Accord
Original: The Bonnie Lass of Bon Accord (Skinner)
Christine (The Bash) (Bobby Brown)
Memories of George Haining (G. Shand)
Chapelhouses (Dennis Morrison)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Cadgers In The Cannongate
John McNeil’s Reel (Peter Milne)
Homeward Bound (Rory MacDonald)
The Well Wynd (Jim Johnstone)
Swinging on a Gate (Trad)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Eva Three Step
10th Battalion HLI Crossing the Rhine (P/M Donald Shaw Ramsay)
Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray’s Wedding March (Aeneas Rose)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Jean Martin Of Aberdeen
Original (M. Johnstone)
The Dingle’s Eightsome Room (M. Johnston)
Paxton House (M. Johnston)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance
Beaumont Hummel (Trad)
Mike and Jenny Shaw, Strathpeffer (G. Mitchell)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Follow Me Home
Miss Catherine Stewart, Pettyvaich (W. Marshall)
The Coldside Jig (A. Fitchet)
Bonnie Cluden Mill (M. Houliston)
Miss Campbell of Monzie (Robert MacIntosh)
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: John Of Bon Accord
John of Bon Accord (G. Meikle)
Hamish Renton (John Renton)
The Celtic Steps (unknown)
Jenna Reid of Quarff
ARTIST: David Cunningham Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: The Weary Pund O' Tow
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Fiona Hunter
CD: Fiona Hunter
LABEL/CAT NR: Rusty Squash Horn
TITLE: Hugh Dan The Shinty Man
ARTIST: Fergie MacDonald
Private Recording
TITLE: Orcadian Strip the Willow
a) Cronin's Favourite [trad]
b) Seamus O'Sullivan's Jig [Ian Thomson]
c) Thomson's Irish Jig [John Renton]
d) The 2am Turtle Patrol [Alistair McCulloch]
ARTIST: The Crynoch Ceilidh Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Chevy Chase
a) Mike Hardie [Sandy Nixon]
b) Elegant Esther Gray [Lindsay Ross]
c) The Key of the Door [David Findlay & David Cunningham]
d) Milton Bridge [Jim Johnstone]
ARTIST: Sandy Nixon and his Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording
TITLE: Air A' Ghille, Tha Mo Run
TRK: 3
ARTIST: Joy Dunlop
CD: Dusgadh
LABEL/CAT NR: Sradag Music - SRM001
TITLE: Prisms on the Dark Sea
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Mike Vass
CD: Decemberwell Decade
LABEL/CAT NR: Self-released - UR007CD
TITLE: Melting
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Karen Tweed & Timo Alakotila
CD: May Monday
LABEL/CAT NR: Fyasco Records – FYCD003
TITLE: Dh’ èirich Mi Moch Maduinn
TRK: 10
ARTIST: Martyn Bennett & Margaret Bennett
CD: Glen Lyon (A Song Cycle)
LABEL/CAT NR: Foot Stompin' Records
TITLE: Everybody wants to be like Mary
ARTIST: Mike Vass & Maireard Green
CD: A.D.A.M
LABEL/CAT NR: Not yet released
TITLE: Da Laird O Gulberwick / St. Anne's Reel / Calum Donaldson / Sleep Soond in Da Mornin /
The Shetland Fiddler
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Sandy Legget & The Carseloch Ceilidh Band
CD: Ceilidh Capers
LABEL/CAT NR: Sandy Legget & The Carseloch Ceilidh Band
Broadcast
- Sat 18 Nov 202319:00BBC Radio Scotland