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Rosss’s Reel
8 x 32 Reel
Four tunes by Marian Anderson to get the CD off to a great start!
A Babbling Brooke
8 x 32 Jig
Appropriate for this CD to include the traditional Haste to the
Wedding! Two more tunes from Marian and finally Ian Muir’s Paula’s
Party
Susie From Penilee
8 x 32 Strathspey
3 of Muriel Johnstone’s compositions are teamed with another from
Marian
Butterfly
4 x 32 Reel
Joyce MacLeod
5 x 32 Jig
Again 3 tunes from Muriel Johnstone, and then 2 from fiddler Marie
Fielding
The Musicians’ Wedding
4 x 32 Strathspey
Roddy Matthews’ Leaving Lordenshaw opens this track, to be followed
by two recognisable Muriel tunes sandwiched around one of Marian’s
new tunes - Sunset Over Connel Bridge
Easy Peasy Rights + Lefts
4 x 32 Jig
Pipe Major Robert Mathieson Rules OK!
Dancing the Baby
1 x 72 Reel
A dance written for the named tune!
Dancing the Baby
72 Reel + 72 Strathspey
Starting as a repeat of the previous track, moving into a strathspey
arrangement of Cauld Kail and Dancing the Baby
The Flowering Heather
3 x 32 Strathspey
3 more of Marian’s own compositions
A Little Bit of Monty
8 x 32 Jig
A Band Members’ Special, with 3 of Marian’s personal tunes followed
by Kevin Lees’ Deb’s Christmas Cracker
St. Aidan’s Church Hall
4 x 32 Strathspey
Begins with Gordon Shand’s The Maid of Glencoul, and followed by
three more Muriel Johnstone tunes
Chain Lynx
8 x 32 Reel
Muriel followed by Gordon Shand for the last dance in the book
Marches - Warm Up
Stirring tunes - Tug Argan Gap by Dr A. C. Fisher and Donald Shaw’s
Calum’s Road
Caledonia
Sung by Alex Hodgson
Track listing
The cover of this CD and third book of dances from Gaye Collin (New Zealand) is self-explanatory!
The
dances
in
the
book
are
mainly
devised
for
friends
and
family,
with
others
remembering
places
visited or simply to teach formations.
There
are
12
new
dances
(4
jigs,
4
reels
&
4
strathspeys)
with
the
72-bar
reel
recorded
as
a
medley
as
well,
a
Warm-up
March
and
the
CD
finishes
with
Alex
Hodgson
singing
Caledonia.
The
sheet
music
for
the
original
lead
tunes
is
printed
in
the
book,
and
a
loose
sheet
includes
Keith
Rose’s
diagrams.
All
tracks
are
played
at
a
steady
pace
and
other
than
the
72-bar
Dancing
the
Baby,
all
other
dances
are
multiples of 32 bars.
The
recording
line-up
is
Marian
Anderson
(accordion),
Graham
Bell
(2
nd
accordion),
Marie
Fielding
(fiddle), Isobelle Hodgson (piano & bass) & Max Ketchin (drums), with Alex Hodgson (vocals).