Scottish Ballads & Folk Music

[elderpiano]

[Taggart]

Dowie Dens of Yarrow by Karine Polwart

[Ella Beck]

Ah, Taggart - I love that tragic ballad, and I love Karine Polwart's voice.

Here's another of hers, a Burns song, that certainly echoes my own sentiments.

[Ella Beck]

What a great thread this is - thanks so much for starting it, elderpiano.

I love Dougie Maclean too - here's his version of a lively eighteenth-century song written by the displaced Episcopalian minister, John Skinner.

Tullochgorum!

[Taggart]

he Battle of Harlaw - Old Blind Dogs

[elderpiano]

Sir Peter Maxwell Davis, Farewell to Stromness, a beautiful lilting ballad. I so wish I could play this.
I think this version is actually played by Peter Maxwell Davis himself. But there are other very nice versions out there.

[elderpiano]

My other favourite version.

Taggart, Have you played this? .

[Ella Beck]

As I came in by Fisherrow - I was hoping for the Dick Gaughan version, but this is still nice.

[Ella Beck]

Andrew Lammie - Child Ballad 233 - a tragic ballad that may be based on a historical event.
Sung here by Dick Gaughan.

The lyrics and recording background can be found here -
https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/andrewlammie.html

[Ella Beck]

Johnny o' Breadislee - Child Ballad 114 - Sung by Hamish Imlach.



More about the song here:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/june.tabo...bredislee.html

[AlderonFrederic]

Here is the lovely playlist for the Ballads of the Scotish ballads....some of them are one of the best in the series.

[Ella Beck]

Here is the lovely playlist for the Ballads of the Scottish ballads....some of them are one of the best in the series.

This is a video of an Irish song sung by an Irish group.
Just saying!

[Ella Beck]

Back to Scotland now for a modern performance of the Burns song 'A man's a man for a' that.'