Bonnie Rideout - Soft May Morn

A treasure of ancient Scottish melodies unearthed by Bonnie Rideout while in residence at Scotland's Armadale castle on the Isle of Skye. These rare tunes from the North Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland (from the Patrick McDonald Collection) are performed in elegant classical style on fiddle, with piano and guitar. Includes haunting airs, lively reels and a virtuosic lament in the "Pibroch" Highland bagpipe style.

1) The Seagulls of Scarba/How I Passed the Winter/Fair John's Sister
2) Oh Tis Me That Is Wounded/Lament for Clan Ranald
3) They Stole My Wife from Me Last Night
4) Sad Is My Soul/A Doo-A-Dee I Went/The Battery Rock/The Red Brook
5) My Sleep Is Heavy/One Day I Travelled the Moor
6) Dargo
7) Soft May Morn/Islay and Kintyre/Early on a May Morning
8) Joyful Is the Crossing/Gloom Upon My Soul/Och O Ro U
9) The Vale of Keppoch/Clay Port
10) Lord Reay/Ha-Da-Lolal/The Lad's Cairn/Hoblin/Gruagach
11) Rocks of the Peak/The Maid of Edin
12) Cold Night/Shrieks and Cries of Woe/Noon in the Deep Blue Sky
13) The Man of Corrie/My Love Is Fixed on Donald
14) I Am a Thrush of Clan Donald/My Sleep Is Sound
15) Brown Haired Madien of the Ghost/The Tower/Beloved Little Sister/Neither Shall I Go to Loch Broom
16) McIntosh's Lament