This is the popular Gaelic band Sgorrabreac's second CD, launched at Coda Music during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and already well-received by trad fans and by radio stations. As usual, Sgorrabreac's distinct hallmark is to blend in carefully crafted arrangements well-known repertoire such as Fear a' bhata and Far an robh mi'n raoir with more eclectic material uniquely covered by Sgorrabreac: songs from the bard George Campbell Hay and by the Scottish composer Alasdair Nicolson with lyrics by contemporary Gaelic poet, Aonghas MacNeacail.
Margaret Nicolson on vocals , piano and fiddle Michel Byrne on vocals, djembe and whistle Stewart McDonald on guitar and bouzouki Orna Gilchrist on fiddle.
Customer Reviews
Chaill mi mo chridhe Tony Warburton
Gaelic music and song performed with feeling and warmth,a credit to the Gaelic tradition.This review applies to the first album as well (Eadar muir is tir).Congratulations Sgorrabreac.
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