Written by Ben Kelly.

New and original, these songs were inspired by stories old and new and reflect something of contemporary Highland life. Included is the acclaimed Highland Cathedral together with 9 more popular songs from this talented singer.

Highland Cathedral has soared to world-wide popularity since it was written by two German composers, Michael Korb and the late Uri Roever, in 1982, in the style of a traditional pipe tune.

The tune was first recorded by the Royal Highland Fusiliers, when they were stationed in Berlin in the early 1980s. Ben Kelly first heard it at the Berlin Tattoo in 1982, and soon sought out the composer’s agents.

"I was trying to get words that weren’t anti-English because there’s too much of that," he says. "I was trying to get words that were more in the future because there’s too much anchoring on the events of the past."

" I was trying to write a Scottish national anthem, to have it sung at the Commonwealth Games, anywhere that Scots actually achieved something, anywhere that someone from Scotland has won something or is standing on a rostrum."

Kelly, who started his career at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, has sung tenor with Scottish Showtime in Inverness for about twenty years.