Mairi's Wedding 2009 Remembrance Day "Oates Rock"

Brad and I have played this song together since the late 1990's, I first heard it sung by Eric Sutak at the 135th Gettysburg Civil War Reenactment in 1998. Most memorably Brad and I performed this for John, Pat, George and Mary when the two couples renewed their wedding vows at St. Brendan's Church in the small town of Birr, County Offaly Ireland in July of 2000.

Mairi's Wedding is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by Johnny Bannerman for Mary McNiven in 1935, the song is played to a traditional Scottish tune. It was first played at the Old Highlander's Institute on Glasgow's Elmbank Street, the Gaelic version was translated to English in 1936.

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• Gettysburg
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• Civil War
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• County Offaly
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