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Scotland – Free Again! composed by Colin Crombie
A song for for Scottish independence. Partly inspired by being part of the great All Under One Banner independence march through Glasgow in May 2018. A little before that, too, a letter in The National newspaper had commented that there was a dearth of songs for these gatherings. This is my contribution to the cause, […]
Fu o Sang the Day composed by Colin Crombie
An article in the pro-independence magazine iScot in early 2018 was headlined "Fu o Sang the Day" – an inspiring line for a song if ever I came across one. It comes from a poem "The Coming of Spring" by Alicia Spottiswoode (aka Lady somethingorother), better known perhaps for the tune and version of Annie […]
Lovely Lebs composed by Trevor John Wilkinson
I am the only Eb Tenor Horn player in the world regularly playing folk music – mainly Scottish and I am undertaking a large project to make a lot of Scottish Gaelic music available for my Tenor Horn. My piece ‘Lovely Lebs’ is very much influenced by Scottish Gaelic Airs. Composer website: Publisher: Tune type: […]
The Queen o Sorrow composed by Colin Crombie
Winner, Original Song in Scots competition at the 48th (2017) Newcastleton Folk Festival. A short song about impending environmental catastrophe, the imagery builds from apparent unrelated vanity and a farewell to natural beauties, turning gradually to disastrous man-made calamity and catastrophe, with no hope of turning the tide, or of redemption, to facing a bleak, […]