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Recordings
"Margaret One of the major figures of the modern Scottish revival"
— Hamish Henderson
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A' The Bairns O Adam -Hamish Henderson Tribute Album -The CD features a selection of his wonderful songs and poems. Interpreted by Rod Paterson, Alison McMorland, Adam McNaughtan, The Corrie Folk Trio, Margaret Bennett, Geordie MacIntyre, Dick Gaughan, Gordeanna McCulloch, Allan MacDonald & Dr Fred Freeman, Eurydice Choir, Jeannie Robertson, Hamish Henderson... read more |
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LET SCOTLAND FLOURISH - Bands, fiddlers and pipers, tunes and songs from the bright young stars of Scottish traditional music, who represent a rich musical heritage and thriving culture.
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SCOTTISH WOMEN-The popular Gaelic and Scots songs on this album were recorded from live concerts during the Scottish Women tour of 2002.
The cast of singers included Sheila Stewart, Sheena Wellington, Ishbel McAskill, Elspeth Cowie, Corrina Hewat, Annie Grace, Karine Polwart, Emily Smith, Mairi MacInnes, Anna Murray, Ray Fisher, Margaret Bennett, Maggie MacInnes and MacKenzie .
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Orain nan Gaidheal— The Song of the Gael, was the title given to a series of seven concerts and a church service of praise featured at the Fiftieth Anniversary of The Edinburgh International Festival in 1997. Featuring Ishbel MacAskill, Mary Ann Kennedy, Mary Smith, Margaret Stewart, Catherine-Ann MacPhee, Kenna Campbell, Maggie MacInnes, Margaret Bennett, Flora MacNeil, Rona Lightfoot, Fred Morrison and others.
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GAELIC SONGS OF SCOTLAND - From Alan Lomax’s Hebridean odyssey in the summer of 1951 comes this selection of songs habitually used by women to accompany daily or seasonal toil: the tending of cattle, the carding and spinning of wool, the shrinking of tweed through the communal task of waulking. All the tracks from the original field recordings, made in the islands of Barra, South Uist and Benbecula, with an additional two recorded in Glasgow from a Lewis singer plus one from a woman brought up in Moidart on the West Highland mainland. CD Notes of Margaret Bennett , 2006.
Contact Lomax Archives at http://www.culturalequity.org
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WORLD LIBRARY OF FOLK AND PRIMITIVE MUSIC- SCOTLAND-
Recorded 1951 by Alan Lomax, with assistance from the Macleans of Raasay, Hamish Henderson, William Montgomerie, and the cooperation of BBC . Introduction by Hamish Henderson, Margaret Bennett and John MacInnes. This first recorded survey of Scottish folk song documents moving renditions of ancient ballads, Gaelic work songs, children’s songs, dance and piping tunes, and contemporary folk songs performed by figures central to Scotland’s traditional musical heritage: Ewan MacColl, Hamish Henderson, Jimmy Shand, Flora MacNeil, and Jimmy MacBeath. "... the [Lomax] recordings remain as a testimony to the new generation...” —Hamish Henderson and Margaret Bennett
Contact Lomax Archives at http://www.culturalequity.org
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SALM & SOUL - "RARELY has Celtic Connections’ name seemed more apt than while witnessing this encounter between the singing congregations of Back Free Church, Lewis, and the Mount Zion Church in Killin, Alabama.
It arose from the theory that the call-and-response structures of African-American gospel music derived in large part from traditional Gaelic psalm singing, brought over by Scottish immigrants to the American South. Other hypotheses concerning this uniquely Hebridean form, where members of the kirk "line out" the texts in response to a precentor’s cues, suggest further intriguing connections, possibly to the very earliest forms of Christian music... read more . The CD is dedicated to the memory of Martyn Bennett (1971 - 2005). Produced by Calum Martin. Recorded live in Glasgow Cathedral, 2005.
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