Enter The Haggis Soapbox Heroes CD

MUSICIANS are: Bonnie Rideout, fiddle & viola with Sue Richards, Celtic harp;Hesperus: Scott Reiss, pennywhistle; Tina Chancey, viola da gamba & Grant Herreid, lute;Karen Ashbrook, wooden flute & Paul Oorts, musette accordeon;Maggie Sansone, hammered dulcimer;Paula Glendinning, Highland bagpipe;William Taylor, Wire harp (Clarech) & Gothic "bray" harp;Carolyn Surrick, viola da gamba. NOTES ON THE MUSIC:[Track 1] features Bonnie Rideout and the early music ensemble, Hesperus, presenting music from some of the earliest sources of Scottish, English, and Irish traditional folk music. For centuries the fiddle and the pipes have shared repertoire, complementing each other with similar ornamentation and the use of drone notes, as in these three tunes. MacDonald of the Isles is a pipe march, followed by a strathspey, which is the dance form most identified with Scottish traditional music. The Source of the Spey and The Periwig are reels first published in the Captain Simon Fraser Collection (1815). [Track 2] Bonnie joins four-time National Scottish Harp Champion, Sue Richards, on Seal Songs. These haunting melodies are from the Patrick MacDonald Collection (1784). ...