Episode 19. A Day At Dunvegan Castle.
Sunday, 20th May 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
Waulking songs, milking songs, laments, pibroch, a lullaby, a banishment and a repetitive strain injury all feature in a day's music at the seat of the MacLeods on Skye in 1667. John Purser talks us through it.
Episode Playlist
- Trad - MacLeod’s Salute
Allan MacDonald
BBC recording - Mary MacLeod - Crònan an Taibh
Alyth McCormick
BBC recording - Trad – Gentle Lady
Kate Nicholson
LP Heather and Glen
Ember FA 2055 - Trad - Is moch an diugh a rinn mi gluasad
Mrs Flora Boyd and Chorus
CD Scottish Tradition 3 - Waulking Songs from Barra
Greentrax CDTRAX 9003 - Trad - Lament for the Earl of Wigton
Bonnie Rideout
BBC recording - Trad – Cumh Ioarla Wigton
Alison Kinnaird
CD The Silver String
Temple COMD 2096 - Trad - Òran talaidh na Mnà-sìdhe
Kathleen MacInnes
CD Òg-Mhadainn Shamhraidh
Greentrax CDTRAX 294 - Trad - Dh’fhag a ludag mi
Allan MacDonald
BBC recording - Trad arr. Yeats - Clarsach Féachain Gléas
Grainne Yeats
CD The Belfast Harp Festival
Gael-linn CEFCD 156 CD1 Track 1 - Trad - Laoidh Fhraoch
William Matheson (North Uist 1965)
CASSETTE Scéalamhráin Cheilteacha, European Ethnic Oral Traditions
[Language and Communication Centre: Trinity College, Dublin] - Trad - Cumha Dhomhnaill an Lagain
Barnaby Brown
CD Classical Gaelic Piping of the 17th & 18th centuries
[privately produced CD]
