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Compilation Programme

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great programme for you filled with music from some of your favourite Scottish dance bands.

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We have a great programme for you filled with music from some of your favourite Scottish dance bands. Gary is then joined by the one and only Julie Fowlis to hear about her latest album releases and tours, and her upcoming gig in the Carnegie Hall in New York.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Compilation Programme

TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) Far O'er The Sea
b) Sheriff A.C. MacPherson Of The Glasgow Highland Club [James Cameron]
c) Jocky Campbell's Accordion March [John Burns]
ARTIST: John Burns and his Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Frisky - Jig
a) Humber Jumber [trad arr N Barron]
b) Off She Goes [trad arr N Barron]
c) The Runaway Bride [trad arr N Barron]
d) Jolly Companions [trad arr N Barron]
e) Humber Jumber [trad arr N Barron]
ARTIST: Neil Barron Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance
a) Major Manson's Farewell to Clachantrushal [Donald MacLean]
b) Donald MacLean of Rothesay [Peter R MacLeod]
ARTIST: The Crynoch Ceilidh Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Pride of Erin Waltz
a) A Waltz for Issy’ [Michael Phillip]
b) Stornoway Waltz [James D Mackenzie]
ARTIST: Rory Matheson and His Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) Original
b) Babes In the Wood
c) My Love She’s But a Lassie Yet
d) The Rose Tree
ARTIST: Fin Hope Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording


TITLE: Boston Twostep
a) Out at the Meadowbank Inn [Lindsay Ross]
ARTIST: Jim Lindsay Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Water of Leith
a) The 2014 Games [Graeme Munro]
b) Lady Isle [Ian T Muir]
c) Wee Mary's Strathspey [Ian T Muir]
d) The Ross Strathspey [Ian T Muir]
ARTIST: David Oswald Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Inverness Country Dance
a) Speed the Plough [Trad]
b) Rachel Rae [Trad]
c) The Borestone [Jim Johnstone]
d) Loch Leven Castle [Trad]
e) The Fair Maid of Perth [Trad]
ARTIST: Matthew Maclennan Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Eva Three Step
a) Mrs Lily Christie [Donald Shaw Ramsay]
b) Kirkhill [James Ross Riddell]
ARTIST: Nicol McLaren Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Barn Dance
Pipe Major Willie Gray
The Skye Gathering
ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Cumberland Reel
a) Bag O’ Plums [John McCusker]
b) Bobby Crowe of Balmullo
c) Gordon’s Cockroaches [Colin Dewar]
d) Ian and Ishbel Crichton [Colin Dewar]
ARTIST: Marian Anderson Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Edinburgh Mixture
a) Iris Nicolson's Favourite [Jock Linklater]
b) Ingrams 35 [Freeland Barbour]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway and his Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Gaelic Waltz
a) An T-Eilan Aluinn (The Island I Left) [Traditional]
b) An T-Eilan Muileach (The Isle of Mull) [Traditional]
c) Fagail Nis (Leaving Ness) [Traditional]
d) Maighdean na H-Airidh (Mary of the Shieling) [Traditional]
ARTIST: James Coutts Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) Calum Beag [Trad]
b) Mullin Dhu [Trad]
c) Ubhaidh Abhaidh [Trad]
d) Fear A Fhige [Trad]
ARTIST: Iain MacPhail and his Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Flowers of Edinburgh (8x32R)
a) Flowers of Edinburgh [Trad]
b) Waverley Steps [Trad]
c) Victoria Hornpipe [Trad]
d) Kirk’s Hornpipe [Trad]
e) Storers Hornpipe [Trad]
ARTIST: Steven Carcary & His Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Shining Star
TRK: 12
ARTIST: Eddi Reader
CD: Love Is The Way
LABEL/CAT NR: Rough Trade - RTRADCD454

TITLE: Back Up and Push
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Leonard Brown and Maggie Adamson
CD: Shades of Shetland

TITLE: Donald Iain Rankine/Tam's Hunting Horn/The Wind that Shaks the Piggery
TRK: S 1 B 6
ARTIST: Ross, Lindsay & His Scottish Dance Band
LP: Lindsay Ross & his Scottish Dance Band
LABEL/CAT NR: Ross Records - WGR 056

TITLE: A Phiuthrag's A Phiuthar (Oh Sister, Beloved Sister)
ARTIST: Julie Fowlis
CD: Alterum
LABEL/CAT NR: Machair Records - MACH008

TITLE: Cuimhne
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Allt - Julie Fowlis/Eamon Doorley/Zoe Conway/John McIntyre
CD: Cuimhne
LABEL/CAT NR: Machair Records - MACH011

TITLE: Gradh Geal Mo Chridhe
TRK: 1
ARTIST: Mary Chapin Carpenter, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart
CD: Looking for the Thread
LABEL/CAT NR: Lambent Light Records

TITLE: Stonemason
ARTIST: Niall McCabe
CD: Single
LABEL/CAT NR: Craggy Records

TITLE: Trish Trash Polka
TRK: S 1 B 3
ARTIST: Paddy Neary
LP: Accordion Magic

TITLE: The Kansas City Hornpipe
ARTIST: Fred Morrison
CD: Outlands
LABEL/CAT NR: Ridge Records - RR057

Broadcasts

  • Sat 29 Mar 202519:00
  • Sat 29 Mar 202520:00