Sea & Skye
Sea & Skye
Castlebay - 1988 The Long Isle - 1989 The Peat Fire Flame - 1990 Down To he Shore - 1991 Harvest - 1992 Angels We Have Heard (1)- 1994 Faeries Hornpipe - 1994 Looking Home - 1995 The Skye Suite - 1996 Angels We Have Heard (2) 1997 Song of the Sea - 1998 The Ballad of Cappy John - 1999 Ladies - 1999 In a Garden Green - 2000 Sea & Skye - 2001 Gentlemen - 2002 Yuletide Treasure - 2002 Cottage & Castle - 2003 Ae Fond Kiss - 2003 Imram - 2004 The Night the Whiskey Froze - 2004 Islands In Time - 2006 Banks & Braes - 2007 The Grand Design* - 2007 Harvest Home - 2007 Going Home - 2008 Rantin', Rovin' Robin - 2009 Bards & Blarney - 2009 2010 Yuletide Revelry - 2010 Imbolc - Rekindling the Flame* - 2010 Festival of Faeries - 2011 John Earthy's Tavern* - 2012 Bound Away - 2015 Samhain - Banking the Fire - 2017 Winter Moon - 2019 Bygone Ballads of Maine, Vol I (book) 2021 Sundrie Aires - 2023 The Maid on the Shore - 2024
* These recordings have extensive notes.
Julia Lane - Celtic Harp, Voice
Fred Gosbee - Violin, Viola, Woodwinds, Guitar, Concertina, Voice
Setting Sail for Iona / Aran Boat Song /The Cuillins of Rhum (8:10)
Traditional Scottish
On a beach in western Scotland, Setting Sail for Iona, we hear sailors singing the Arran Boat Song. Further on our journey north, mist shrouds The Cuillins of Rhum. All are melodies of Hebridean boat songs.
The Water Kelpie/ Mermaid Song (5:59)
Legends abound in the Western Isles of The Water Kelpie (Isle of Mann) and the Mermaid Song (Scotland) which will lure the unwary to a watery doom.
Mackerel Jig / Out on the Ocean (3:02)
Mackerel Jig © Nick Apollonio
Fresh fish are a staple of coastal people and what better way to spend the day than to Mackerel Jig / Out on the Ocean! The first of these tunes was made by our friend Nick Apollonio, the second is traditional Irish.
Isle of St Kilda / Eilean Mo Chridh (4:45)
Far out in the north Atlantic lies the Isle of St Kilda now a bird sanctuary. The human residents of this remote community were removed in Victorian times Songs like Eilan Mo Chridh (Isle of My Heart) might remind them of their homeland
My Love Across the Water (4:55)
© 1999 Julia Lane
The ocean has always been the cause of both connection and separation. My Love Across the Water iwas composed for the Sang of the Solway suite and tells of lovers separated by the Irish Sea.
Adrift (6:21)
© 1998 Julia Lane
Weather changes rapidly on the water and the fog can mysteriously envelope everything, confounding all sense and logic- one feels Adrift.
The Dark Island (3:19 )
©Iain MacLachlan
Out of the mist rises The Dark Island
Sullivan's Fancy / Muscongus Hornpipe (3:43)
Muscongus Hornpipe © 1999 Fred Gosbee
Back on shore, sailors dance to Sullivan's Fancy, inspired by Sir Arthur Sullivan's Ruddigore, and the Muscongus Hornpipe, about an island near our home. Hornpipes were invented by British naval officers to keep their sailors fit.
Three Sea Captains (2:36)
In the tavern,Three Sea Captains might be seen comparing charts and raising a glass or two.
Doreen Conboy, cello
Shenandoah / The Water is Wide (5:57)
In the harbor, a ship leaves again. The crew sings the old chantey Shenandoah while onshore wives and sweethearts lament that The Water is Wide. These last two are traditional, American and Scottish respectively. They are favorites of Julia's parents and are played for them.
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