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Brìghde Chaimbeul’s Carry Them With Us

Brìghde (BREE-cha) Chaimbeul’s second album Carry Them With Us is a masterful, exhilarating melange of traditional and modern music for the Scottish smallpipes. It’s definitely not for the traditionalists among piping fans, but what Chaimbeul is doing with Scottish smallpipe … Continue reading

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Battlefield Band’s Time & Tide

One of the longest running Scottish folk bands, Battlefield Band celebrates three decades of music touring and recording. Time & Tide, their latest album, again sees a change in the lineup with the departures of Karine Polward and John McCusker. … Continue reading

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Celtic Fiddle Festival’s Play On, Drones & Bellows/Dragseth Duo’s Hiimstoun, Smoky Finish’s Tune the Speed, various artists’ The Independence Suite, and various artists’ A Highland Journey in Music

Alistair Brown wrote this review. Play On is the fourth release from a group of musicians who had no real intention of continuing as such beyond a one-off concert series in 1993. The project featured three of the Celtic world’s … Continue reading

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John G. Gibson’s Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 – 1945

There are several traditions regarding the history of Scottish bagpiping that have been passed down from piper to piper over the last few hundred years. These doctrines are that the Disarming Act following the Battle of Culloden was responsible for … Continue reading

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Various artists’ The Kilmartin Sessions: The Sounds of Ancient Scotland

I understand that a review copy of Kathryn Tickell’s new album which features a Pict instrument called the carnyx, is on its way to GMR from Park Records, but I have an album that our Music Editor will find even … Continue reading

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Willie Clancy’s The Pipering Of Willie Clancy Volumes 1 & 2, Tommy Martin’s Uilleann Piper, Brian McNamara’s A Piper’s Dream, Kevin Rowsome’s The Rowsome Tradition, and various artists’ World Pipe Band Championships 2000, Volumes 1 & 2 

Tim Hoke wrote this review. I was a little intimidated when a package of seven bagpipe CDs arrived at my house. Now, I love bagpipes in all forms as much as anyone who doesn’t actually play them can, but a … Continue reading

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John O’Regan’s Massive Piping Omnibus Review

Various artists’ Glenfiddich Piping Championship – March, Strathspey and Reel (Lismor, 1999) Various artists’ Glenfiddich Piping Championship – Piobaireachd (Lismor, 1999) Various artists’ Glenfiddich Piping Championship – Ceol Mor Piobaireachd (Monarch, 1991) Various artists’ Dr Dan Reid Memorial Solo Piping … Continue reading

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The Scottish Power Pipe Band’s Cathcart, and Manawatu Scottish Pipe Band’s The Calling

There exist in the piping world today two kinds of Scottish pipe bands: those that play by the rules of repertoire and those that have an adventurous streak. This review highlights one very ambitious pipe band open to contemporary sound … Continue reading

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Aly Bain & Ale Möller’s Beyond the Stacks

One of the finest concerts my wife and I ever saw was Aly Bain and Ale Möller at the Center for Cultural Exchange in Portland, Maine, several years back. Like the music of Frifot, of which Ale is a member, … Continue reading

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Aly Bain and Ale Möller at the Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Maine, May 12, 2005

Donna Bird and Cat Eldridge co-wrote this review. Maine-dwellers will remember May 2005 as the month of ceaseless rain, wind and unseasonably cold temperatures. The weather was at its worst on the weekends. Most of us were house-bound against our … Continue reading

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