TWO LOVES

Bonny at Morn; Hybrid Set; Duplin House; Wandering Willie; Temple Locks; Canongate Breeks; Cruel Mother / Around Dawn; Bobbin John; Poppies from the Somme; Church on Sunday / Two Loves; Laughter in the Gallery; Whistle O’er the Lave O’t; Hold Back The Tide.

Wendy Weatherby (cello, voice) James Ross (piano, accordion) Stevie Lawrence (guitar, bouzouki, small pipes, percussion, cabassa, shaker)

A BREATH ON THE COLD GLASS

John Anderson My Jo; Miss Norma McIntosh / Prestonfield Johnny; Gloomy Winter; Coilsfield House; Badenoch / Willie Martin’s Farewell to Blackford Glen; Happed in Mist; Miss Katie McKenna / Wee David the Drummer; The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry;  Moleskin Joe; The Learig; Ballachulish Tango; Fair Annie; A Breath on the Cold Glass

Wendy Weatherby (cello, Starfish electric cello, voice) Brian McAlpine (accordion, piano) Stevie Lawrence (baritone guitar, bouzouki, cittern, manocello, percussion, Scottish small pipes) Ken Campbell (Northumbrian pipes) Bill Martin (trumpet, side drum).

SUNSET SONG

The Land (Strathspey and Reel); Blawearie (narrative); Chris Guthrie’s Tune; Two Chrises; Love (narrative); Ewan’s Tune; I Came Out of the Darkness; Sweet and Wild His Kiss; Winter Wedding (narrative); Dunnotter Castle / Tavendale’s Reels; The Floo’ers  o’ the Forest; Sweet and Wild His Kiss; Out of the World and into Blawearie; Chris’s Secret (narrative); Young Ewan; War (narrative); Aberdeen; War Letter (narrative); Only the Land Endures; Ewan’s Tune (reprise); Shot at Dawn (narrative); The Floo’ers o’ the Forest; The Land (reprise); I Will Give You the Morning Star.

Mairi Macinnes, Rod Paterson (voice); Pete Clark, Chris Stout, Jon Beales, Lawrence Dunn (fiddle); Alison Lucas (viola); Ron Shaw, Wendy Weatherby (cello); James Ross (piano); Leo McCann (button box); Julie Fowlis (oboe, whistle); Stevie Lawrence (bouzouki); Frank McLaughlin (Scottish small pipes, guitar).

DAYBREAK ON THE WORLD’S EDGE

The Tryst; Cadger Jimmy; Cadger Jimmy’s Reel; Sang; The Permanence of the Young Men; Evelyn’s Tune; Lauch When Ye Can; Saint Dodd; The Moment; Unicorn; Gang Down wi’ a Sang; Tradition; Autobiography; A Whigmaleerie; Auld Wife’s Sang.

Wendy Weatherby ( multi-tracked cello); Rod Paterson, Mick West, Lester Simpson (voice)

Daybreak on the World’s Edge

Musical settings of some poems of

WILLIAM SOUTAR

by

WENDY WEATHERBY

and the voices of

ROD PATERSON          MICK WEST

LESTER SIMPSON

RECORDINGS

Listen to sample tracks by clicking on the relevant album. The tracks are:

The Land on Sunset Song, featuring Julie Fowlis (oboe).

Happed in Mist on Breath on the Cold Glass, featuring Wendy (voice, cello) and Bill Martin (trumpet).

Church on Sunday on Two Loves, featuring Wendy (voice, cello), Stevie Lawrence (guitar) and James Ross (piano).

Evelyn’s Tune on A Breath on the Cold Glass ­­­– Wendy multi-tracked cello.

Langspoon Festival 2007

Wendy above, and with James Ross below

A SHIRT OF SILK OR SNOW

Helen O’ Kirkconnel; The Riccarton Tollman’s Daughter; Willie Wastle; Stratus; The Gardener; The Bonny Hind; Paldy Parish / Alick’s Reel / Jim Trease’s; Sir Patrick Spens; Alison Gross; The Wars O’ Germanie; John Hielandman; Yet Shall You Live; Tam’s Swagger / Time or Tide / Witches’ Dance; I’ll Lay Me on the Wint’ry Lea.

Wendy Weatherby (voice, cello), Stevie Lawrence (bouzouki, guitar, whistle, percussion), James Ross (acoustic piano), Pete Clark (fiddle, viola), Bruce Adams (trumpet, flugelhorn), Linda Adams (guitar, banjo, concertina (track 5), voice (tracks 5, 7).