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Take the Floor at Lochaber Live Festival

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We take you back to Take the Floor's family ceilidh at Lochaber Live Festival from September.

For the very best in traditional music, join Gary Innes for Take the Floor. We take you back to Take the Floor's family ceilidh at Lochaber Live Festival from September, with great tunes from some well-known local musicians. First onstage is Martainn Skene and his Highland Dance Band, then followed by the Robert Robertson Dance Band - both bringing you some of your favourite tunes and dances.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Take the Floor at Lochaber Live

MARTAINN SKENE AND HIS HIGHLAND DANCE BAND
Martainn Skene Lead accordion
Sarah-Jayne Shankland Fiddle
Wullie Scott 2nd accordion
Colin Garvin keyboard + bass
Nicky McMichan snare + hi-hats
Calum MacColl vocals

THE ROBERT ROBERTSON DANCE BAND
Robert Robertson Accordion
Iain Cathcart 2nd accordion
Graham MacKenzie Fiddle
Fraser MacInnes snare & Hi Hat
Ross Wilson Keyboard


TITLE: The Gay Gordons
a) Corriechoille's 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting [PM Willie Ross]
b) Campbell's Farewell to Redcastle [Traditional]
c) Miss Ishabel T MacDonald [John MacDonald]
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance
a) Donnie MacGillivray's Welcome to the 21st Century [Fergie MacDonald]
b) The Lochaber Gathering [PM G. S. MacLennan] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Dashing White Sergeant
a) The Drunken Piper [Alexander MacLeod] 
b) The Piper of Drummond [Trad] 
c) C ta M r Ealasaid [Trad] 
d) Mo Chuachag Laghach [Trad] 
e) Ruidhlidh Mo Nighean Donn [Trad] 
f) The Drunken Piper [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: St Bernard's Waltz
a) Loch L obhann (Loch Leven) [Alasdair Rankine]
b) Gruagach Dhonn a' Bhroillich Bh n [Unknown]
c) Tha Mo Ghaol air ird a' Chuain [Eanraig MacIlleBh in]
d) Buain na Rainich ri taobh Loch ite [Iain Cameron]
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) John McAlpine [Trad] 
b) Bodach Beag Obar Itheachain [Trad] 
c) Sabhal Iain 'ic isdein [Trad] 
d) Innis Dhomhsa C il thu Cadal [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Virginia Reel
a) M iri Bh n [Trad] 
b) Buain na Rainich [Trad] 
c) Hebridean Milking Song [Trad] 
d) Chan eil mo leannan ann an-seo [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Boston Two-Step 
a) Loch Maree Islands [Fergie MacDonald]
b) Kishorn Commandos [Gordon MacKenzie] 
c) When I Came Out to Glasgow First [William Marshall] 
d) The Garden Where the Praties Grow [Johnny Patterson] 
e) The Ramblin' Rover [Andy M Stewart]
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Bandleader's Choice 1 Song
a) Lovely Stornoway [Calum Kennedy]
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Bandleader's Choice 2 - song
a) Fear a' Phige [Trad]
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Postie's Jig 
a) Maureen's Jig [Fergie MacDonald] 
b) The Price of a Pig [Fergie MacDonald] 
c) Ness Bothan [Fergie MacDonald]
d) No 12 [Patrick McDonald] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Circassian Circle 
a) The Barrowburn Reel [Addie Harper]
b) The Banshee [Trad] 
c) The Hohner Highlander [Martainn Skene]
d) The Reconcilliation [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Strip the Willow 
a) Thief of Lochaber [Trad/ Donald MacLeod]
b) Old Woman's Dance [Trad] 
c) The Hen's March [Donald MacLeod]
d) Alan MacPherson of Mosspark [Angus MacDonald] 
ARTIST: The Martainn Skene Highland Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) Jim Barrie [Jimmy Shand]
b) The 79th Farewell to Gibraltar [Pipe Major John MacDonald]
c) Murdo MacKenzie of Torridon [Bobby MacLeod] 
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Gay Gordons - Encore
A) The Hills of Argyll [George McIntrye]
B) The Dark Waters of Loch Shiel [Fergie MacDonald]
C) Angus MacKinnon [P/M Donald Shaw Ramsay] 
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance
a) The Braes of Castle Grant [Donald MacDonald 3rd and 4th parts P/M George S McLennan]
b) Mrs MacDonald of Dunach [P/M William Lawrie]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance - Encore
a) Captain Carswell [P/M William Lawrie] 
b) Centenary Jewel [Phil Cunningham]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Gleann Bhaille Chaoil Song [Iain Cameron]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Boston Two Step
a) Wi a Hundred Pipers [Caolina Nairne]
b) Home Boys Home [Trad]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Boston Two Step
a) John D Burgess [George Cockburn]
b) Braemar Gathering [P/M George S McLennan] 
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Gaelic Waltzes
a) Maighdeanan na h- irigh [Iain Mac Ille Brath]
b) Br igh Loch Iall [Gun Urra]
c) Th id Mi Null [Neil MacQueen]
d) Teann a-nall [Archibald MacDonald]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) S iomadh rud a chunna mi [Trad]
b) Dh fhuillt am bodach fodar dhomh [Trad]
c) L rach do Thacaidean [Trad]
d) Sabhal Iain ic Uisdean [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Homeward Bound [Robert Robertson]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) Original [Trad]
b) Frank s Reel [John McCusker]
c) The Blackberry Bush [Trad]
d) Och gur duine truagh mi [Trad]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Britannia Two Step
a) Bonawe Highlanders [P/M John MacColl] 
b) The Heights of Cassino [D MacRae]
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Orcadian Strip the Willow
a) Lisnagun [Trad]
b) The Seagull [Trad]
c) Jig of Slurs [P/M George S McLennan]
d) Itchy Fingers [P/M Robert Pinkman]
 e) Dick Gossip s [Trad]
f) MacArthur s Road [Trad] 
ARTIST: The Robert Robertson Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

Broadcasts

  • Sat 4 Oct 202519:00
  • Sat 4 Oct 202520:00