Orkney: The Voice Of The People

Orkney: The Voice Of The People
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The BBC, for whom Peter Kennedy was working part-time in 1955, had more or less left Orkney alone in its recording activity, except for some recordings about local customs and beliefs made on location in 1954. At the time, Orkney was seen as being at the extreme edge of Great Britain, and was virgin territory for a music collector such as Peter, who travelled there in 1955, recording singers and musicians in informal circumstances, amassing a wealth of songs, dances and some speech excerpts that still exist, and this CD presents a representative selection of the instrumental pieces from that treasure trove of traditional music. Track Listing: Disc 1: The GARSON TRIO - The Greeny Hill March The GARSON TRIO - King William’s March The GARSON TRIO - The Victoria Waltz JOHN FRASER - Napoleon Crossing The Rhine JOHN FRASER - (Jig) Rory O’More JOHN FRASER - The Foursome Reel JOHN FRASER - Two Wedding Marches THE ANDERSON BROTHERS’ BAND - Scapa Flow BILLY & JIMMY MELL - Untitled Waltz The ORKNEY STRATHSPEY & REEL SOCIETY - (Hornpipes) Byrne’s / The Elk’s Festival The ORKNEY STRATHSPEY & REEL SOCIETY - (Polkas) Untitled / Untitled PETER PRATT - Two Quadrille Tunes PETER PRATT - Miss Brown’s Horning PETER PRATT - The Morning Star PETER PRATT - (Strathspey) Kitty My Navel PETER PRATT - (Barndance) Paddy Carter BILL GRIEVE - Bob Johnstone’s Stathspey & Reel TOM THOMSON - Deerness Quadrille Tune The GARSON TRIO - The Venus Polka The GARSON TRIO - (Jigs) Off She Goes / Dumfries House / Unidentified JIM LESLIE - The Red House JIM LESLIE - The House On The Hill RONNIE AIM - The Glimps Holm March RONNIE AIM - Untitled March The ORKNEY STRATHSPEY & REEL SOCIETY - The Grand March JOHN BURGESS , MARY ORMAND & TOM THOMSON - (Strathspey) Smith’s A Gallant Fireman JOHN BURGESS , MARY ORMAND & TOM THOMSON - (Two Quicksteps) Unidentified / Patience Quadrille JOHN BURGESS , MARY ORMAND & TOM THOMSON - The Grand March No. 2 PETER PRATT - (Stathspey) Archie o’ Lamb Holm / (Pipe March) Unidentified PETER PRATT - The Bride’s Reel PETER PRATT - Tune for the quadrille (The Rose Tree) The GARSON TRIO - (Strathspeys) The Monymusk / The Iron Man The GARSON TRIO - (March) The House of Skene / (Strathspeys) The Four Stringer / MacDonald Black