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John Ellis and his Highland Country Band

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great band session from our archives, featuring John Ellis and his Highland Country Band.

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great band session for you from our archives, featuring John Ellis and his Highland Country Band, which was first broadcast in 1990. As guest, Gary is joined by fiddle player, teacher and composer, Graham Mackenzie.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sat 6 Jul 202419:00

John Ellis & The Highland Country Band

John Ellis – Fiddle
Douglas Muir - 1st Accordion
Irene Dear – 2nd Accordion
Douglas Cargill – Bass
Chick Bonnar - Piano
George Boath - Dums

TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) Isla Cottage [Angus Lawrie]
b) A Mile Aboon the Kellis [Douglas Muir]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Lady Louisa MacDonald’s Strathspey
a) Original [Robert Mackintosh] 
b) Auld Luckie [Trad] 
c) Mrs MacLeod [Trad] 
d) Bonnie Bessie Lee [Trad] 
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: The Queen’s Bridge
a) Original
b) Old Highland Air [Trad] 
c) Elegant Esther Gray [Lindsay Ross]
d) Original 
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Mrs Stewart’s Jig
a) Captain Charles Stewart’s Jig [Malcolm MacDonald]
b) Joe Foster’s Jig [Lindsay Ross]
c) The Family Pride [Lindsay Ross] 
d) The Wind that Shaks the Piggery [Lindsay Ross] 
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Waltz
a) Come Over the Stream Charlie [Trad] 
b) A Hundred Pipers [Trad] 
c) The Skye Boat Song [Trad] 
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Pipe Medley
a) Calum Campbell’s Memories of Kyle [Evan Gare]
b) Mary Gare’s Ruby Wedding [Evan Gare]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Chapman
a) Miss Macpherson of Gillieston [Trad] 
b) John MacDonald’s Reel 
c) The Rae Rant 
d) Miss Macpherson of Gillieston [Trad]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recordin

TITLE: Barn Dance
a) Miss Nancy Mackay [John Mackay]
b) Portree Highland Games [P/M Donald MacLeod]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Espie McNabb
a) Joyce Meiklejohn’s Jig [Frank Moy]
b) The Man From North Connell [Calum MacLean]
c) Jim McAllister’s jig [Calum MacLean]
d) Jig for Jen [Andy Bathgate]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Highland Medley
a) Glenprosen Ghillies Ball [Douglas Muir]
b) Walking the Floor [John Chisholm]
c) Highland Pibroch [Trad] 
d) The Brolum [Dr Charles Bannatyne]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Scottish Walz
a) Bonnie Gallowa’ [George Hornsby]
b) Scalloway Voe [Ronnie Cooper]
c) Rothesay Bay [Alfred Scott-Gatty]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) Camerons Of Sheildaig [Ken C Mackay]
b) Malaclete [Freeland Barbour]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Eight Men of Moidart
a) I’ll Gang Nae Mare tae Yon Toon [Trad] 
b) Burnhervie Picnic [Jock Morgan]
c) Cumberland Reel [Douglas Muir]
d) Orkney Reel
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Eva Three Step
a) John Mathieson of Nairn [Evan Gare] 
b) Fiona Gilfinnan [Douglas Muir]
ARTIST: John Ellis & The Highland Country Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: The Waverley Polka
TRK: 1
ARTIST: The Clydesiders
CD: Scottish Folk Songs of the West
LABEL/CAT NR: Scotdisc – 191018051822

TITLE: Shetland Reels:
Tilly Plump / Ahint Da Daeks o' Voe / Da Scallowa Lasses / Donald Blue
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Amy Laurenson
CD: Strands
LABEL/CAT NR: Amy Laurenson

TITLE: Iain Ghlinn' Cuaich
TRK: 10
ARTIST: Capercaillie
CD: ReLoved
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical

TITLE: Bridge Street Reels:
Mario's Cap / The Lass From Skye / Reelin' Doon Bridge Street
TRK: 3
ARTIST: Graham MacKenzie
CD: Dawning
LABEL/CAT NR: Blue Door Music - BDM002CD

TITLE: The Love of The Isles
TRK: 7
ARTIST: Willie Hunter
CD: The Willie Hunter Sessions
LABEL/CAT NR: Greentrax – CDTRAX144

TITLE: Forgotten Daze / Cottesloe Beach / The Honesty Bar
TRK: 5
ARTIST: Michael McGoldrick
CD: Wired
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical records - VERTCD074

TITLE: Steady !
John MacFadyen of Melford / Centenary Jewel
TRK: 2
ARTIST: Tom Orr Scottish Dance Band
CD: Off The Beaton Track
LABEL/CAT NR: CPR002 

TITLE: The Contradiction Reels:
The Nine Pint Coggie / The Greenfields Of Glentown / The Contradiction
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Graham MacKenzie
CD: Dawning
LABEL/CAT NR: Blue Door Music - BDM002CD

TITLE: Calum’s Road
TRK: 14
ARTIST: Capercaillie
CD: ReLoved
LABEL/CAT NR: Vertical Records

TITLE: Reels
The Drunken Piper / Far From Home / Jackson’s Number Two / Reevies’s Number Nine
TRK: 11
ARTIST: Iain Anderson Scottish Dance Band
CD: The Stanley Ceilidh Volume 1
LABEL/CAT NR: Coinsby Music – CONISB02

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Jul 202419:00