Listed to the strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra playing traditional dance music, arranged and conducted by Ian Whyte. More to follow later:
BBC Scottish Orchestra Strings play traditional music, 1937
Listed to the strings of the BBC Scottish Orchestra playing traditional dance music, arranged and conducted by Ian Whyte. More to follow later:
RareTunes is now 10 years old. We are still uploading tracks from our original system and have recently added fiddlers, singers, pipers and folk groups. Happy listening! Many, many more still to come!
Hear forgotten button accordionist Davy Hutchison here. With supporting biographical information and memoirs.
We have now added video content of included performers served from our rareTunes and other’s youtube.com channels. As videos are added they will be announced via posts such as this. Click here.
A precious recording of a song dedicated to footballer John Thomson, ‘The Laddie frae Cardenden’ recorded shortly after his tragic death in 1931. Click here.
Lyndsey Porteous of Culross, Fife, plays trump (jew’s harp) on a suite of recordings made in 2009 and 2010. Click here.
Six sides from 1931 of Joe Corrie’s Players presenting The Miner’s Saturday Night now added. Click here to hear.
Just added: Four tracks of Edinburgh-based Chilean singer Carlos Arredondo recorded in 2008. Other tunes from Carlos to follow.
Thanks to listener Glenice we have now swapped two of the George F Davie tracks that were wrongly assigned. We greatly appreciate such feedback and help.
Two tracks and a book of music by clarsach player and singer Patuffa Kennedy-Fraser now included here.