For Friendship and for Harmony
The Fife Traditional Singing Weekend
2005 - Autumn Harvest AH003 CD
Track List:
Hairst o Rettie - Joe Aitken
When I Wis New But Sweet Sixteen - Stanley Robertson
The Butcher Boy - Elizabeth Stewart
Ythanside - Jock Duncan
Bold Princess Royal - Louis Killen
I am Wearin Awa John - Chris Miles
Up a Wild and Lonely Glen - Stanley Robertson
Binnorie - Norman Kennedy
Bogie's Bonnie Belle - Joe Aitken
Ferretin' - John Malcolm
The Cruel Mother - Elizabeth Stewart
Guise o Tough - Jock Duncan
When Fortune Turns the Wheel - Louis Killen
Lakes o Shillin - Sheila Stewart
Ellon Feeing Market - Joe Aitken
Yowie wi the Crookit Horn - Elizabeth Stewart
The Castlegate - Norman Kennedy
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Notes
Songs and ballads recorded at the Fife Traditional Singing Weekend in May 2005. This was the third year of the event - a gathering of many of Scotlands finest exponents of the art held at the Fife Animal Park in Collessie, Fife.
The album opens with Joe Aitken of Kirriemuir singing the majestic north-east bothy ballad The Hairst o Rettie. Other songs include Ythanside from Jock Duncan, the ancient murder ballad of the Cruel Mother from Elizabeth Stewart and Stanley Robertson's version of When I Wis New But Sweet Sixteen. Norman Kennedy, the internationally renowned traditional singer originally from Aberdeen was a special guest at the event from his home in Vermont in the USA and here he sings the classic Scots ballad of Binnorie and the infamous Aberdeen song The Castlegate. The tyneside singer Louis Killen, recently returned to our shores after many years as a professional folk singer in the USA, sings the great nautical ballad Bold Princess Royal.
Louis Killen: Born and raised in Tyneside in a musical family of Irish/Scottish extraction, Louis was a founder member of the Newcastle Folk Club in 1958 and an original member of the High Level Ranters. He recorded several seminal albums with Topic in the 1960s and then emigrated to the USA where he continued a career in folk music, joining the Clancy Brothers between 1971 and 1976. Now back on home ground, Louis is recognised as one of the most knowledgeable singers and influential voices of the folk revival, noted in particular for his knowledge of shanties and maritime songs. Here he sings Bold Princess Royal (track 5), a famous song of piracy on the high seas, and a fine convivial song When Fortune Turns the Wheel (track 13), a line from which provides the title to this album.
Source: Springthyme Records