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Bothy songs and Scottish country music have been a part of life at the Foundry Bar in Arbroath ever since the time when the only customers were the foundry workers from over the road (the foundry has long since gone), the fisher fowk from the town, and the fairm chiels in from the Angus countryside for the weekly fairs and markets.
In 1975 some of the Foundry Bar musicians got together, entered and won the Ceilidh Band competition at the Kinross festival – and so was born ‘The Foundry Bar Band’. This, their first album, was issued in 1981 and it has been a top selling album ever since - first as an LP, then on cassette and now remastered in CD format.
Since then, many of the regular musicians at the Foundry Bar have taken a turn in the band – playing at concerts, ceilidhs and dances throughout the area, and at festivals up and down the country.
Few bands, professional or otherwise, can so well convey the essential lilt of Scottish music with such enjoyment and enthusiasm.
The fame of ‘the foondry’ as a musical gathering place has spread far and wide, and on a couple of nights a week the back room is filled to capacity with musicians and enthusiasts from near and far.
Song texts and notes and can be accessed from the Track List below.
For pictures of the band and the Foundry Bar go to Pictures below.
Other albums from the Foundry Bar Band include Rolling Home and On the Road.
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Track List:
1. Marches: 3.11
WILLIE JOHN McAULAY (H. Troup)/ BENAWE HIGHLANDERS (trad. arr. Dewars)
2. Song (Scottish Waltz): 2.14
AUCHMITHIE (J. Reid/ N. Buick) Link to Song Text
3. Strip the Willow (Jig time): 4.37
HOT PUNCH/ FAREWELL TO THE TAY (trad. arr. Dewars)/ BEARSDEN FIDDLER (J. Mason)/ DONALD’S AWA TAE THE WAR (trad. arr. Dewars)
4. Scottish Waltz: 2.59
O NAGH AGHMOR (trad. arr. Dewars)/ KAREN ANN (B. Dewars)
5. Bothy Ballad: 2.47
GUISE O TOUGH (trad. arr. J. Reid) Link to Song Text
6. Irish Jig: 1.46
OUT ON THE OCEAN (trad. arr. P. Forbes)
7. Eightsome Reel: 3.20
ROXBURGH CASTLE/ MRS MacLEOD/ FAIRY DANCE (all trad. arr. Dewars)/ THE BROLUM (C. Bannantyne)/ HIGH ROAD TO LINTON (trad. arr. Dewars)
8. Pipe Marches: 4.50
Mrs H. L. MacDONALD OF DUNACH (W. Lawrie)/ LOCHABER GATHERING (G. S. MacLennan)/ SWEET MAID OF MULL (A. C. Beaton/ J. MacFadyen)
9. March and hornpipe: 2.07
GRANT FARQUHARSON OF INVERAVON (C. Geddes)/ BELLA AND ROY (C. Geddes)
10. Song (Scottish Waltz): 2.36
CATHERINE STREET (J. Reid) Link to Song Text
11. Barn Dance (2/4 marches): 4.11
RHODESIAN REGIMENT (P. R. MacLeod)/ WILLIE GRAY (trad. arr. C. Geddes)/ LEWIS AND HARRIS GATHERING (P. R. MacLeod)
12. Song (Scottish waltz): 3.29
TRAMPS AND HAWKERS (trad. arr. J. Reid) Link to Song Text
13. Gay Gordons (6/8 marches): 2.56
WEE TOD/ KENMURE’S UP AN AWA/ ATHOLL HIGHLANDERS/ BONNIE DUNDEE (all trad. arr. C. Geddes)
Pictures
The Band and the Foundry Bar in Arbroath.
The Band on Angus McPherson's cart with Clydesdale horses outside the Foundry Bar in Arbroath.
The Band as they were on their first album: Jim Reid (guitar, vocals, mouthorgan), Terry Beattie (button key accordion), Bob Reid (guitar, mothorgans), Chae Geddes (fiddle), Jim Gray (fiddle), Geordie Anderson (fiddle) and Bobby Dewars (piano accordion).
In the Bar: Peter Forbes, Jim Reid, Helen Forbes, Jim Gray, Chae Geddes, Bobby Dewars, Bob Reid, Terry Beattie
and Bella and Roy (the hosts).
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