Scottish Tradition

7: Calum Ruadh, Bard Of Skye

Greentrax

Several stretches of conversation, mainly in English, and eight songs in Gaelic composed by the crofter — who died in 1978 — accompanied by Roy Williamson and John Mackinnon, on flute and violin.

• Calum Ruadh
• The Old House
• Crofter and Landlord
• Eviction
• It's All Gone
• The Ruination of the Highland
• The Church and The Bard
• The Sabbath Ferry
• Lament For Archie
• Composition
• The Fairy Variation - A Series of Variations
• The Process of Composing
• Song to The Children
• Reciting Chanting Singing
• The Series of Variants Concluded
• The Message and The Audience
• Exposition