Celtic Collections vol 10: Sandy Bell's Ceilidh - From Edinburgh's Famous Folk Bar (CD) CDGMP8010 £8.05 including 17.5% VAT for UK & EU customers only £6.85 tax-free price for USA & Rest Of World - convert to $US dollars * €Euro * $AUD * $CAD * other currency Currently 10 in stock - despatch next working day of in-stock titles.£FREE UK 1st Class delivery (1-2 working days).£2.60 / US$4.30 / €3.55 per order any number of items Airmail delivery outside UK (5-12 days). mp3 (April 2006 re-release of 1977 recording) 13 tracks: Hornpipes: An Comhra Donn / The Galway / The Strand (Bell's Big Ceilidh Band) * John Barleycorn (McCalmans) * Fort Charlotte / Calum Donaldson (Aly Bain) * The Lea Rig (Chorda) * The Cruel Brother (Dick Gaughan) * Lowlands Away (Bell's Chorus) * Sandy Bell's Man (Liz and Maggie Cruickshank) * Kirsteen (The McCalmans) * Crossing The Minch (Aly Bain) * Johnny Sangster (Chorda) * Sleepy Toon (Dick Gaughan) * Doon in the Wee Room (Bell's Chorus) * Jigs: The Lilting Fisherman / Loch Gowna / Sweet Biddy Daly (Bell's Big Ceilidh Band).
An album from the 1970s which was recorded in Edinburghs famous folk music bar Sandy Bell's (The Forrest Hill Bar), and at Pan Audio Studios.
Many of the Sandy Bells Bar regulars of the time feature on the album, including Aly Bain, Dick Gaughan, The McCalmans, Chorda, Liz and Maggie Cruickshank, plus The Bells Big Ceilidh Band - local musicians who regularly played music in the Bar - and The Bells Chorus - regulars who frequently broke into song in Bells!
The album fully captures the atmosphere of the period, and even today the Bar continues to host musical sessions, being a starting point for visitors to Edinburgh who want to seek out real Scottish traditional music.
Bell's Big Ceilidh Band are Jimmy Elliot (mandolin), Jimmy Greenan (whistle), Jock Brown (tenor banjo), Adam Jack (fiddle), Ian Hardie (fiddle), Peter McClements (fiddle), Norman Chalmers (concertina), Iain McNair (guitar), Allan Johnstone (guitar), Roy Martin (bass), Rod Paterson (bones), John Croal (bodhran) and David Baillie (bodhran).
"Sandy Bell's is unique. Nowhere else in the world is there a place where the folk music of a country is carried on in a similar manner. Someone should make a record of it." (Thorkild Knudsen)
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