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Songs in Gaelic, Scots and English all featuring warm-hearted choruses sung by the village of Aberfeldy Gaelic Choir and students from the RSAMD in Glasgow. Both delicate and robust accompaniments on clarsach, piano, cello, smallpipe and fiddle, with a few a capello, this is a real singer’s album inviting you to join the chorus. Tracks: The Singing Bird / Gaol ise gaol I / The Spinning Wheel / Hi Horo ’s na Horo Eile / A Chailinn Dhuinn & Miss Lyle / Mary Mac / Gur Milis Mòrag / Bu Chaomh Leam Bhith Mireadh with the Glasgow City Police Pipers / The Pressers / Ailein Duinn & My Bonnie Light Horseman / Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh
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MARGARET BENNETT - Take The Road To Aberfeldy "When it comes to singing," says Margaret in her lovely, companionable booklet note, "the road to Aberfeldy takes on a special meaning for me". This refers specifically back to her experiences of "singing together" with the "welcoming, enthusiastic, warm-hearted and versatile" Aberfeldy & District Gaelic Choir, whom she first encountered at the opening of Perth's new concert hall in 2005. Yet Margaret's latest record is effectively a celebration of the glorious process of "singing together" with others, which has been a feature of every stage of her life: it's tapestry of songs shared with some of the people who've been special to her. And a very special musical experience it proves for the listener too. Accompaniments are sensibly varied, with the aforementioned choir joining Margaret on five of the eleven tracks (even indulging in some triumphant tongue-twisting wordplay on Mary Mac!), and an altogether sparser backing for the remainder (Seylan Baxter's cello and Cheyenne Brown's clarsach on three, Ruaridh MacMillan's fiddle on two, Stuart Peters' border pipes on the delicious courtship song Bu Chaomh Leam Bhith Mireadh). The disc opens with a delightful rendition of The Singing Bird (learned from a recording by Belfast's McPeake family) which benefits from Heather Downie's sensitive piano accompaniment. Margaret's singing of both Hi Horo's Na Horo Eide (the famous, and beautiful, love song composed by Tiree bard John MacLean) and the poignant lament Tuireadh Iain Ruaidh is exemplary in its pace and phrasing, and clearly much inspired by her choir backing on the chorus. Review by David Kidman
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