The Highland Clearances - Miss Catherine Brosnan --- Silly Wizard

[GeXeS]

This was maybe the very first scottish song I ever heard. This version is awesome! Yeah, it is chilling...

[SemajSattler]

Theres something about Celtic music that brings out the purest of emotion.

[wyvisben]

The cleared Scots often had to join the army for lack of anything else to support, and fought in Germany for the Hanoverians (or indeed, for the French, against them). Inevitably they left many lying buried in the forests there.

[hoterebel]

Ce groupe est venu chanter dans mon village de 300 hab. en 1979, ou 1980 je crois!!! eh oui

j'étais enfant mais jamais je ne n'oublierai !! Que d'émotion pour mon 1er concert !

J'ai encore le disque ! La jacquette et celle là même (photo plus haut) : « So many partings »

Trop fun de re écouter leur album now

[heehawluck1]

Achingly beautiful...and stirring. Never heard the like.....marvelous. Thank you.

[Rexicano]

Some TRIVIA;

THE song name was misspelled on the CD file reissue.

it's ok on the Cover but coded in wrong on the digital file itself.

Some English bastard probably typed it....!

Just got done writing out a lot of charts for a lot of Silly Wizard songs; I heard them a long time ago but only recently decided to record them myself.

Simple pieces but actually harder than I thought to perfect as nicely as S.W.

[Ten7d5]

Why does this song reference Germany? just curious. And I believe Gillanders are the clan Gillander of Ross

[DantesDarkside]

@Ten7d5

I really have no idea, I was wondering about it too. But it is nice, because it is my home country :)

[manicjoe]

@Ten7d5 : it relates to the Hanoverian Kings of England in 18th and 19th century (the Clearances took place in that time)

[Tatomatic]

@Ten7d5

This refers to the First World War. What the English could not quite do to clear the glens before that war the slaughter finally did, killing off many sons of the Gael and further reducing the numbers of Gaelic speakers in many regions of Scotland. Hence "the woods of Germany grow in rows around the broken hearted."

[Hoglysis]

@Ten7d5

German trees were used to reforest the highlands after extensive logging in the 1700's. As for Gillanders, he was a particularly nasty land owner during this period.

[UberNickus]

I never noticed that these songs flow together so seamlessly. Nice job linking them.

[DantesDarkside]

@UberNickus

at the time Id listend this songs on vinyl I thought it was just one ^^.

And when the flute startet the second song it is kind of ecstatic somehow

[ladyhawk0053]

I just discovered this group and truly love them. Even though this is a sad song, it brings me a sense of peace to listen to it. Love the flute!

[LindsayCurran]

This is so beautiful gives me goosebumps - the music - Andy Stewart's voice - the measured cadence - the lyrics - the landscape: absolutely ***** Thank you!