FIFE TRADITIONAL SINGING WEEKENDHere's a Health to the Company |
The Songs 1: Bonnie Lass o Fyvie - Gordon Easton This song telling of the dragoon captain who died for the love of the bonnie lass o Fyvie has been and still is widely popular. There are over 20 versions in the Greig-Duncan Collection (GD 1:84) with considerable variation in text and tune. It is clear from the song and local tradition that Fyvie was a staging post on the military route from Aberdeen to Fort George on the Moray Firth. 1: Gordon Easton Barnyards o Delgaty 4:09 2: Anita Best In Bristol there lived a Fair Damsel 3:51 3: Bob Blair The Collier Laddie 6:12 4: Maureen Jelks Bonnie Susie Cleland 6:40 5: Geordie Murison Atween Stanehive and Laurenkirk 2:51 6: Ellen Mitchell Young Johnstone 6:19 7: Anita Best The Bonnie Banks o Fordie 4:03 8: Ron Bissett Amang the Neeps and the Barley 2:22 9: Margaret Spiers A Fair Maid in her Garden Walking 4:02 10: Gordon Easton Briggie's Gerse Park 3:42 11: Duncan Williamson John Barleycorn 3:53 12: Anita Best The Union from St John's 4:48 13: Hamish Grant The Lassie and the Butcher 4:02 14: Susan McClure Traiveller's Joy 6:18 15: Gordon Easton The Beggar Man 5:14 16: Henry Douglas The Brundenlaws 3:59 17: Maureen Jelks Bonnie Glenshee 4:15 Credits The Fife Traditional Singing Weekend is organised and promoted by The East of Scotland Traditional Song Group - a ‘not for profit’ organisation born in 2003 specifically to run the Fife Traditional Singing Weekend and with aims now extended to cover the general promotion of enthusiasm for Scots traditional song. |