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Lydia Byard

A Peculiar Sense of Humor

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Gillie Mackenzie

Griais (Gree-Ash)

Griais comprises trad and self-penned Scottish Gaelic songs, influenced by the songs, stories, landscape & culture of Lewis, Western Isles where Gillie grew up. On Griais she has stellar accompaniment from Scotland's finest trad. musicians.

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Fyfe Penni Piece

Scottish Record Attempt

Instruments and voices in harmony in this beautiful delivery of 12 traditional Scottish songs and 2 new songs written by the band.

Folk: Scottish Traditional

The Campbells

Fonn

An album of songs and mouth music from the Campbell family of singers from Greepe in the Isle of Skye. ‘Bha ceòl cho nàdarra ri tarraing anail’ - ‘Music was like drawing breath’.

Folk: Scottish Traditional

The Duplets

Leverage

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Vivien Hamilton & Len Vorster

Burns and Beyond: Songs of Robert Burns

This recording comprises a selection of artsongs and arrangements for voice and modern piano which use ancient tunes and poems of Scotland as inspiration.

Folk: Scottish Traditional

The House of Scotland Pipe Band

Taigh na h-Alba

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Jack Foster

An Hour Before the Dawn

A collection of traditional, predominantly Scottish ballads, whose subject matter ranges through themes of (amongst others) sex, jealousy, infidelity, murder, revenge, blackmail and farming (there's probably even one or two that cover all of the above).

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Quirky Jade

Quirky

This trio of singers sing mainly unaccompanied. Five Burns songs are interspersed with an eclectic mix of mediaeval, African, Finnish and, of course, Scottish traditional folk songs with a couple of contemporary songs added to the mix.

Folk: Scottish Traditional

Various Artists

The Boy and the Bunnet (feat. James Ross & James Robertson)

Folk: Scottish Traditional

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Brobdingnagian Bards

Real Men Wear Kilts

Scots-Irish folk songs from award-winning Celtic American folk music group.

The latest CD from the Brobdingnagian Bards, "Real Men Wear Kilts", is six years in the making. I remember how it started too. We were in Salado playing an evening party for Clan Gunn when our friend Royce implanted the idea that we should do a Scottish CD. We had just finish "Songs of Ireland", and I was already thinking about it too. I'm Scots-Irish but never really embraced my Irish half until recently. To me, I was all Scottish! I've long wanted to record more Scottish songs, but somehow fate intervened and most of the music I learned was Irish. Who am I to go against fate? That didn't stop this idea. We didn't know many Scottish songs back then. But I had quite a few I wanted to learn. So we started learning them. Shortly after that I designed some free Real Men Wear Kilts stickers to giveaway. Then my friend Jen Clower-Brown redesigned them to the current style. Time passed and still we hadn't touched this CD idea. Finally in January of 2007, something clicked inside us. We learned and accepted something about us as a band. You see the Brobdingnagian Bards are not a typical Celtic music group. I love keeping traditional songs alive, but as a group we, well, we have fun with the music. We play around with the lyrics pronunciations. I can't begin to tell you how many people have emailed and said, "It's TROOSERS, not TROUSERS!" Other Scots laughed when I sang "Loch Lomond" with an Irish accent a few years back. Well, we don't sing with accents nearly as much as we did, but when you're an American singing songs written in the Scots dialect, you have to make a few decisions. Do you rewrite songs? Do you use them as is? For us, nothing is sacred we do what we do without apology... with one caveat. We want you to know what to expect. If you're expecting some contemporary Celtic sound from Scottish musicians, listen to Ed Miller. He's outstanding. If you're expecting us to not screw up the Scottish dialect, think again. All in all, I think Andrew said it best, "We're not Scottish. So we're crap!" That said, our eleventh album, "Real Men Wear Kilts" is here. It is an album of Scots-Irish music for people like us. Photo is by Jen Clower-Brown.

Folk: Scottish Traditional