Music

“Leth Linn” is a collection of traditional songs in Gaelic and English, recorded in 2010, marking both Linn’s half century – and her passion for traditional music, with half a lifetime of song in English and half in Gaelic. Some of the tracks in English are accompanied on the fiddle.

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Full track list from the album “Leth Linn”:

1. Gur trom an t-eallach an gaol
2. Hug òrann ò rò
3. Cumha bràthar
4. Ceòl nan crunneig
5. Nochd gun chadal (Catrìona Dhùghlas)
6. Il a bholagain, Il a bho m’ aghan (Carmina Gadelica)
7. An t-oighr’ òg
8. Mo chasan dubh
9. A Mhaighdeann Bharrach (Father John MacMillan)
10. Tionndaidh am bàt’ (Murchadh Iain Macillemhoire, Na Còig Peighinnean, Nis)
11. Eilean beag donn a’ chuain (Dòmhnull ‘an Moireasdan, Bragar)
12. The Snow It Melts the Soonest [Roud 3154]
13. The Cuckoo [Roud 413]
14. Fair Rosamund [Roud 3729]
15. The Whitsun Dance (Austin John Marshall)
16. The Lady Leroy [Roud 1889, Laws N5, Henry H214] (trad/Battlefield Band version ”At the Front” 1978)
17. The Slave’s Lament (Robert Burns)
18. Willie o’ the Winsbury [Child 100] (trad/Pentangle version “Solomon’s Seal” 1972)
19. Young Tambling [Child 39] (trad/Annie Briggs version, “Annie Briggs” 1971)

The three songs written by Harry Robertson are made available by kind permission of Evan and Lyn Mathieson, of The Rita and Harry Robertson Archive, who maintain this wonderful resource, www.harryrobertson.net.  Harry Robertson (1923-1995) was born in Barrhead near Glasgow, and later became a proud Australian, raising a family in Queensland.  In the course of his lifetime he was a seaman and ship’s engineer, a singer songwriter and folk activist. He became a key figure in the development of the Australian folk music tradition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Robertson_(folk_singer)

More information on Ewan MacColl songs is at https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com.

Additionally Linn and Luciano performed versions of Lucho Quequezana songs Chaska, Camino al Carnival, Caminos de Nieve, and Distancias; and La Partida, to a cover by the band Illapu.  Recordings of these will be uploaded as mp3s as and when permission is received.  Or they are available as a Promotional Copy/CD (not for sale or resale) for festival promoters etc please contact me for a copy.

With grateful thanks to the following for convening wonderful zoom sings and permission to extract and post songs recorded on their Zoom sings:

Jerry O’Reilly, Máire Ní Chróinín, and Antaine Ó Faracháin and the An Góilín Traditional Singer’s Club, Dublin and the Sean-Nós Cois Life weekend

John Murphy and the Cork Singers Club

Lynn Noel and The Mermaid’s Tavern Ballad, Tavern and Chantey sings, Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA, http://www.lynnoel.com, https://crosscurrentsmusic.bandcamp.com/music

Pamela Reinagel, transatlantic Traditional Singers Session

Fay Hield, Soundpost

Casey Casebeer, Ballad Zoom

Amanda MacLean, Sharps in Isolation