Tam McSpew, I Knew You
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. I know a Tam McSpew or two (and so do you). Why, you may have even had a…
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. I know a Tam McSpew or two (and so do you). Why, you may have even had a…
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Members of the Oran Mor Pipe Band kick it last week with the Erin Harkes Band at Savannah’s in Albany, NY. Excellent holiday fun.
More from “The Highland Sessions.” Your regular dose of piping video medicine.
“The Highland Sessions” by the BBC are several years old now, but a wealth of great musical sets await the canny video seeker. Here is the inimitable Allan MacDonald performing “Duncan MacCrae of Kintail’s Lament” whilst making the smooth transition into the Irish tune “The March of the King of Loais.” The piobaireachd stands as one example in MacDonald’s thesis of the relationship of many piobaireachd to the song traditions of the Highlands and Ireland, even going so far as making the claim that these two tunes are one and the same. Watching this it is hard to argue.