Track listing

1. Sùilean Dubh (trad.)– 2:45
2. The Captain Campbell Medley – 4:07
   • Captain Campbell (trad.)
   • Calum Breugach (trad.)
   • Wedding Reel #1 (trad.)
   • Cui's a Christ Mhóir Mi (Wedding Reel #3) (trad.)
   • The High Road to Linton (trad.)
3. I Know Who Is Sick (trad.) – 1:50
4. The Boy's Lament Medley – 5:10
   • The Boy's Lament For His Dragon (trad.)
   • Jessie Smith (trad.)
   • A Taste Of Gaelic
     Goidelic languages
     The Goidelic languages or Gaelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland...
     
      (trad.)
   • Brenda Stubbert's Reel
     Reel
     A reel is an object around which lengths of another material are wound for storage. Generally a reel has a cylindrical core and walls on the sides to retain the material wound around the core...
     
      (Jerry Holand/Fiddlestick Music)
5. Ballinderry (trad.) – 5:33
6. The Two Brothers Medley – 5:26
   • Two Brothers (Irving Gordon/Welbeck Music Corp.)
   • O'Keefe's Slide (trad.)
   • The Tenpenny Bit (trad.)
7. Scarlet Ribbons (Segal-Levine/EMI
   EMI
   The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...
   
    Mills Music) – 3:49 - With special guest John McDermott
   John McDermott (singer)
   John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song "Danny Boy". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Ontario, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St...
   
   
8. Ciarán's Piano Medley – 5:40
   • My Lodging's On The Cold Ground/Endearing Young Charms (trad.)
   • The Lass O' The Corrie Mill (trad.)
   • The Growling Old Man And Old Woman (trad.)
   • The Golden Wedding Reel (trad.)
9. The Coulin / Hornpipes Medley – 4:52
   • The Coulin (trad.) / The Green Castle (trad.)
   • The Harvest Home (trad.)
10. The Briar & The Rose (Tom Waits
    Tom Waits
    Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
    
    /Jalma Music Inc.) – 5:09 First Single
11. The Pleasure of Home Medley – 3:28
    • The Pleasures Of Home Fackler
    • I Have A Wife Of Me Ain (trad.)
    • Gabrielle's Jig (John Morris Rankin/Ole Sound Productions)
12. Here's To Song (Allister MacGillivray/Cabot Trail Music, Socan) – 4:38 - With special guest John McDermott
    John McDermott (singer)
    John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song "Danny Boy". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Ontario, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St...
    
    
13. Kitchen Racket – 1:49

Musical Contributions

• The Cottars
  • Ciarán MacGillivray (age 13): piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
    
    , tin whistle
    Tin whistle
    The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
    
    , bodhrán
    Bodhrán
    The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
    
    , vocals, step-dancing
  • Fiona MacGillivray
    Fiona MacGillivray
    Fiona MacGillivray is the lead singer of the Celtic group The Cottars. She has toured with the band extensively through North America, Europe and Japan...
    
     (age 12): tin whistle
    Tin whistle
    The tin whistle, also called the penny whistle, English Flageolet, Scottish penny whistle, Tin Flageolet, Irish whistle and Clarke London Flageolet is a simple six-holed woodwind instrument. It is an end blown fipple flute, putting it in the same category as the recorder, American Indian flute, and...
    
    , bodhrán
    Bodhrán
    The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
    
    , lead vocals, step-dancing
  • Jimmy MacKenzie (age 14): guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
    
    , bodhrán
    Bodhrán
    The bodhrán is an Irish frame drum ranging from 25 to 65 cm in diameter, with most drums measuring 35 to 45 cm . The sides of the drum are 9 to 20 cm deep. A goatskin head is tacked to one side...
    
    
  • Roseanne MacKenzie (age 11): fiddle
    Fiddle
    The term fiddle may refer to any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music...
    
    , harmony
    Harmony
    In music, harmony is the use of simultaneous pitches , or chords. The study of harmony involves chords and their construction and chord progressions and the principles of connection that govern them. Harmony is often said to refer to the "vertical" aspect of music, as distinguished from melodic...
    
     vocals, step-dancing
• Additional Musicians
  • John McDermott
    John McDermott (singer)
    John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song "Danny Boy". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Ontario, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St...
    
    
  • Brigham Phillips
  • Gordie Sampson
    Gordie Sampson
    Gordie Sampson is a singer-songwriter and producer from Big Pond, Nova Scotia, Canada.He has written songs for Carrie Underwood , Martina McBride , LeAnn Rimes , and George Canyon and produced and sound engineered...
    
    
  • Al Bennett
  • Allister MacGillivray
  • Beverly MacGillivray
  • Patrick Kilbride
  • Deborah Quigley
  • Wendy Rose
  • Anne Lindsay
  • Claudio Bena
  • Audrey King

Additional information

• Executive Producer: John McDermott
  John McDermott (singer)
  John Charles McDermott is a Scottish-Canadian tenor best known for his rendering of the song "Danny Boy". Born in Glasgow, Scotland, John moved with his family to Willowdale, Ontario, Canada in 1965. Growing up in a musical family, his only formal musical training was at St...
  
  
• Arranger/Musical Director: Allister MacGillivray
• String Arrangements: Brigham Phillips
• Producers: Allister MacGillivray & Brigham Phillips
• Recording and Mixing Engineer: Gary Gray
• Assistant Engineers: Mike "Sheppy" "Shepherd and Nathan Handy
• Recording Studios: Lakewind Sound and Manta DSP
• Mastering: Charles Gray, Saluki Music
• Photography, Design & Layout: Carol Kennedy

All traditional songs and tunes were adapted and arranged by Allister MacGillivray and The Cottars

The Cottars

The Cottars are a Canadian Celtic musical group originating from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia- Conception to Feast :From 2000 to March 2006 The Cottars were composed of: Ciarán and Fiona MacGillivray of Albert Bridge, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and The MacKenzies of Cape Breton. In 2006, big...

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External links

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