Pictish Players - Honky-tonk Chateau

(June 2005) Inverness Country Dance * Eightsome Reel * Foursome Reel * Reel Of The 51st * encore * Duke & Duchess Of Edinburgh * encore * Hamilton House * encore * Duke Of Perth * encore * Careless Love * Christopher Columbus * It Don't Mean A Thing * Makin' Whoopee * Pinetop's Blues * I've Found A New Baby * Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You * Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out * China Boy * Honky-Tonk Chateau * Hobo's Blue.

Class, brass, oomph and swing! A grand value double CD perfect for a reel party with style! One CD of classic reels * and one of Jazz for the foxtrots, quicksteps and jives to spice up the evening. Violins, accordion, keyboards, clarinet, trumpet, sax.. .

The Pictish Player, the Scottish Country Dance/Jazz Band, have been providing music for Highland balls, private dances, weddings etc.. Since 1960. In spite of other commitments and wide geographical spread, the Players have at last got together in a remote corner of Scotland for long enough, just, to produce this recording of their unique sound.

Hamish Leslie Melville - keyboards
Charles Bell - piano accordion
Johnny Stirling - trumpet
Bill Lovelady - guitar, vocals, bass
Jim Tomlinson - saxophone, clarinet
Austin De Lone - bass
Fiona Brodie - violin
Julia Robinson-Dean - violin
Clare Gorner - violin
Julian Cann - violin
Jeremy Davidson - clarinet
Rodolphe d'Erlanger - drums