Mason Brown performs "The White Cockade" by Jed Marum

I met Mason Brown while performing at Dollywood during the Festival of Nations. This is Mason Brown performing "The White Cockade" by Jed Marum and is joined my Brian Fleming. A fantastic percussionist and director from Clair, Ireland. I recorded this at one of the many sessions we put together almost every night.

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[TexasScottishFestiva]

This song adapts the 18thC lyrics to an entirely new melody - written by Jed Marum and published on his MILES FROM HOME album (Boston Road Records, 2004).

As stated below; the original lyrics were written in Irish Gaelic and translated into English.

[TexasScottishFestiva]

Burns is credited with a song called The White Cockade - but not this one. These lyrics were translated from Irish by J.J.Callanan in the late 18th Century.

[TheMadFifer]

It was written by Robert Burns in 1790.

[rmulkere01]

I came across this after reading a book my brother gave me about Irish regiments that went and fought in France in the years following the failed Jacobite rebellion in Ireland. At the battle of Fontenoy as they prepared to go into the British and Hanoverian flank and avenge their forefathers, they sang the White Cockade, a Scottish song that had been banned in Ireland at the time.

I much prefer this to the original though. Was it not written sometime in the first years of the 18th century?

[MementoMori88]

very pleasant to listen to :) had this song stuck in my head the past few days lol

[fuerstF]

The white cockade was used in the Scottish Jacobite rebellion of 1745, there' also a dance called the reel of the white cockade, which I wish some would put up. The white signfies the purity of royalty.

[Sopwithsnoopy]

This is sweet, Mason! Sure beats all the garage-band stuff we were doing back in the 80's at your moms, or Jacks basement. (J here)

I still play (badly, heh)but I do like me some Irishy folk like the Chieftains, Solas, Tempest, etc.

I'll look for some of your stuff, I like it :)

-J

[jedmarum]

Woo Hoo! I love it! Great version! Nice slow groove ... it was great playing it with Mason last weekend in Dallas too. Looking forward to doing more ... thanks for posting the vid.

[fancypicker]

Nice Job, Mason!

It was great to hang with you guys at Dollywood this year!

[masbrow]

Thanks, Jason! This song is by Jed Marum and is based on an Irish Jacobite poem.

Mason