Over the Border: Scottish and American Fiddle Music |
Performing on this album:
Elke Baker, fiddle and viola
Dave Wiesler, piano
Larry Unger, guitar and banjo
Ralph Gordon, bass and cello
Sue Richards, Celtic harp
Myron Bretholz, bodhran and percussion
The program is as follows (click to download audio samples):
Marches
1 Northern March trad. Celtic
2 Prince Charlie trad. Scottish
3 Campbell's Farewell trad. American (5:10)
(Fiddle, piano, bones, bodhran, banjo)
Slow Hornpipe &
Cape Breton Reels
4 Bligh's Farewell ©Elke Baker 1995 ASCAP
MP3 or
WAV sample
5 Hughie
Shortie's Johnny Wilmot
6 Down the Broom trad. Cape Breton
7 Father Francis Cameron ©John Campbell (7:03)
(Fiddle, guitar, bass, piano)
Manx Set
8 Arrane Ghelby (Song of the Kelpie) trad. Manx
9 Ushag Veg Ruy (Little Red Lark) trad. Manx (4:14)
(Fiddle, piano)
Retreat March
10 Banks of the Lossie P.M. Donald MacLeod (1:53)
(Fiddle, harp, cello)
Strathspey & Reels
11 Ruffians Rant trad. Scottish
12 Sandy Pond Reel ©Elke Baker 1995
ASCAP
13 Wildcat
Creek ©Larry Unger 1991 BMI
(4:41)
(Fiddle, guitar)
Gaelic Air
14 'S coltach mi ri craobh gun duilleag (I am Like a Tree Without Leaves) trad. Scottish (3:56)
(Fiddle)
Scottish March,
Strathspey & Reel Set
15 Athole Volunteers March Niel Gow
16 Miss Isabella McPherson Grant of Ballindalloch William Marshall
17 The Merry Making attr. Simon Fraser (5:01)
(Fiddle, piano)
3/2 Hornpipes
18 Barham Down trad. English
MP3 or WAV
sample
19 Gin ye won na take me, ye may let me be trad. Scottish
20 Bobin John trad. Scottish (4:18)
(Fiddle, piano)
Jigs
21 Old Hag You Have Killed Me trad. Irish
22 North Highland Dance #4 trad. Scottish
23 Upper Glencoe ©Elke Baker 1995
ASCAP
(5:06)
(Fiddle, piano, bodhran)
Strathspeys &
Hornpipes
24 Dean Bridge of Edinburgh Archie Allan
25 The Marble Walk ©Elke Baker 1991
ASCAP
26
Banks Parazotti
27 Lady Eliza Lindsay Lady Balcarres (5:30)
(Fiddle, piano)
Reels in Open
Tuning
28 Foxhunter's trad. Irish
MP3 or
WAV sample
29 Reel Éboulement trad. Quebecois (5:12)
(Fiddle, guitar)
Song Air
Improvisation
30 Will Ye Go to Flanders? trad. Scottish (3:57)
(Fiddle, piano)
Viola Air
31 The Hawthorne Tree ©Elke Baker 1993
ASCAP
(2:40) MP3 or
WAV sample
(Viola, harp)
Jig, Slip Jig, and
21/8
32 Grace Hay's Delight trad. Scottish
33 New Claret trad. Scottish
34 Doon da Rooth trad. Shetland (3:35)
(Fiddle, guitar, bass)
Contradance Reels
35 Reel for Dave ©Elke Baker 1994
ASCAP
36
Spootiskerry Ian Burns
37 Star of Munster trad. Irish (5:28)
(Fiddle, piano, bass)
Waltz
38 Lillehammer Waltz ©Jonathan Jensen 1994 (4:39)
(Fiddle, piano)
11/10/06