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Orkney: Traditional Dance Music from Orkney
Orkney: Traditional Dance Music from Orkney
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Release Date: Apr 28, 2014
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Liner Note Author: Reg Hall .
Recording information: Orkney, UK.
Photographer: Peter Kennedy.
Traditional Dance Music from Orkney is a collection of field recordings made in Northern Scotland's Orkney Islands in 1955. London's Peter Kennedy was a contemporary of well-known American field recordist and folklorist Alan Lomax, and spent nearly four decades documenting the rural traditional folk music of the British Isles. At the time he made these recordings, Kennedy was working part-time for the BBC, which had taken little interest in documenting these remote islands on the far edge of the U.K. Kennedy took it upon himself to travel north and capture the local traditions by recording musicians and singers in their own homes or other informal settings. Of the music he recorded, 33 tracks of instrumental traditional songs are featured on this disc, which is part of Topic Records' Voice of the People series. ~ Timothy Monger
Recording information: Orkney, UK.
Photographer: Peter Kennedy.
Traditional Dance Music from Orkney is a collection of field recordings made in Northern Scotland's Orkney Islands in 1955. London's Peter Kennedy was a contemporary of well-known American field recordist and folklorist Alan Lomax, and spent nearly four decades documenting the rural traditional folk music of the British Isles. At the time he made these recordings, Kennedy was working part-time for the BBC, which had taken little interest in documenting these remote islands on the far edge of the U.K. Kennedy took it upon himself to travel north and capture the local traditions by recording musicians and singers in their own homes or other informal settings. Of the music he recorded, 33 tracks of instrumental traditional songs are featured on this disc, which is part of Topic Records' Voice of the People series. ~ Timothy Monger
Tracks:
1 - Greeny Hill March
2 - King William's March
3 - Victoria Waltz
4 - Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
5 - Rory O'More: [Jig]
6 - Foursome Reel
7 - Two Wedding Marches
8 - Scapa Flow
9 - Untitled Waltz
10 - Byrne's/The Elks' Festival [Hornpipes]
11 - Untitled/Untitled [Polkas]
12 - Two Quadrille Tunes [Jigs]
13 - Miss Brown's Hornpipe
14 - Morning Star
15 - Kitty My Navel [Strathspey]
16 - Paddy Carter [Barndance]
17 - Bob Johnstone's Strathspey & Reel
18 - Deerness Quadrille Tune
19 - Venus Polka
20 - Off She Goes/Dumfries House/Unidentified [Jigs]
21 - Red House
22 - House on the Hill
23 - Glimps Holm March
24 - Untitled [March]
25 - Grand March
26 - Smith's a Gallant Fireman [Strathspey]
27 - Unidentified/Patience Quadrille [Quicksteps]
28 - Grand March, No. 2
29 - Archie O' Lamb Holm [Strathspey]/Unidentified [Pipe March]
30 - Bride's Reel
31 - Tune for the Quadrille (The Rose Tree)
32 - Moneymusk/The Iron Man [Strathspeys]
33 - House of Skene [March]/The Four Stringer/MacDonald Black [Strathspeys]
2 - King William's March
3 - Victoria Waltz
4 - Napoleon Crossing the Rhine
5 - Rory O'More: [Jig]
6 - Foursome Reel
7 - Two Wedding Marches
8 - Scapa Flow
9 - Untitled Waltz
10 - Byrne's/The Elks' Festival [Hornpipes]
11 - Untitled/Untitled [Polkas]
12 - Two Quadrille Tunes [Jigs]
13 - Miss Brown's Hornpipe
14 - Morning Star
15 - Kitty My Navel [Strathspey]
16 - Paddy Carter [Barndance]
17 - Bob Johnstone's Strathspey & Reel
18 - Deerness Quadrille Tune
19 - Venus Polka
20 - Off She Goes/Dumfries House/Unidentified [Jigs]
21 - Red House
22 - House on the Hill
23 - Glimps Holm March
24 - Untitled [March]
25 - Grand March
26 - Smith's a Gallant Fireman [Strathspey]
27 - Unidentified/Patience Quadrille [Quicksteps]
28 - Grand March, No. 2
29 - Archie O' Lamb Holm [Strathspey]/Unidentified [Pipe March]
30 - Bride's Reel
31 - Tune for the Quadrille (The Rose Tree)
32 - Moneymusk/The Iron Man [Strathspeys]
33 - House of Skene [March]/The Four Stringer/MacDonald Black [Strathspeys]