Scotland

Jay Ungar - fiddle
Aly Bain - fiddle
Mark O'Connor - fiddle
Charlie McKerron - fiddle
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh - fiddle
Martyn Bennett - pipes
Simon Thoumire - concertina
Russ barenberg - mandolin
Cathal McConnell - flute
Phil Cunningham - piano accordion
Molly Mason - guitar
Danny Thompson - bass
Donald Sutherland - percussion

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[Mandolin1944]

The song is Scotland -- written by the great father of Bluegrass William Smith Monroe. Bill wrote this tune in the 1960's in honor of his Scottish heritage. He wrote it for a bluegrass band to capture the sound of the bagpipe. Years later (1980's), he taught the tune to Ali Bain one summer's day when the Scottish fiddler was visting Bil's farm in Kentucky.

[tomtscotland]

Thanks for background info - much appreciated.

[HenfieldWill]

Fantastic! Many, many thanks for posting this - I'd just spotted your post from the Sessions 2 - and now I've just discovered this Sessions 1 clip. Do you know what the tune is? I'd never heard Martyn Bennett before - fabulous! :-) Will

[tomtscotland]

I just assumed it was called "Scotland".

I've got a solo video of Martyn just paste into search maccrimmon's lament martyn .

Sadly he died of cancer a couple of years ago and unfortunately there seems to be very little in the way of videos.

[tomtscotland]

This one goes way back to 1995 or thereabouts and features the late Martyn Bennett - wish i had more of Martyn.

[fuckerfromfermanagh]

Amen to that man, the scots have a wonderful culture and I'm sick of them being refered to as british, they're not full stop their a celtic race like us Irish, and it's time the english stop taking credit for Scottish music by labeling it british..

[zandeman5]

Yes, they are. They come from Great Britain and are therefore British. I hope you'll think through all the ramifications before you start using ethnic origin to argue your case.

[Breitheamhnaig]

@zandeman5 but the English aren't

[Mandolin1944]

@Otaku155 Cool!!

[Otaku155]

@Mandolin1944 And Jay Ungar taught it to me hehe

[pinback10]

I don't want to sound critical but I prefer the fiddle playing version in the Documentary in High Lonesome for this song. The fiddle playing there seemed to have the feeling just right.

[agger2]

@zandeman5 I agree with you for the most part, but surely you'll agree that British carries a much different meaning today. Re-introduced with the Act of Union, British had for long not been used anymore. British today seems to take on Anglo-Saxon/English connotations.

I suppose Brythonic might be used, but the term does not give allowance to the Highlands, where it is for the most part Goidelic.

that said i'm not scottish, so i think it should be left up to the scots to decide:P

[zandeman5]

Mr Fermanagh, I recommend you read The Isles, by Norman Davies. It's an anti-teleological history of Great Britain and Ireland. Pytheas the Greek reported that the pre-Roman people of GB called themselves Pretanike. And a lot of the ancient people of Scotland were P Celts, with a language similar to that of their contemporaries in what are now Wales and England. Ancient Welsh heroes like Cadwallon were said to have been born in what's now the Scottish lowlands. So the Scots are British.

[madfortrad07]

Wonderful music played by..Aliens ! This can't be "reel" !! I love it ! Génial ! Absolument superbe ! :- Thank you for sharing this !

[offitcock]

welsh bag pipes, cool

[ricshorten]

Iiiih...iisss graaate.

It touches the Borthwick in my genes!