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Iain Cathcart    Lead Accordion
Alistair McCulloch   Fiddle
James Coutts    2nd Accordion
Graham Berry    Piano
Brian Cruickshank    Bass
Fraser MacInnes    Drums

John Carmichael as special guest  Accordion

TITLE: Glasgow Marches (6/8, 12/8 & 18/8 Pipe Marches)
a) Strathclyde Police March On [James M Cameron]
b) Glasgow Week in Hamburg [Pipe Major J MacAllister]
c) James M Cameron of Glasgow [Iain T MacPhail]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Govan Barn Dance (2/4 Pipe Marches)
a) The Atholl Highlanders’ March to Loch Katrine  [W Rose, 1859]
b) Morag Ramsay      [Pipe Major Peter R MacLeod, Partick]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Shettleston & Springburn
a) Sam the Skull    [Harry Hagen]
b) Doon in the Wee Room  [Traditional & Daniel McLaughlin]
c) Edgefauld House   [James Scott Skinner]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      Dur:  2.50

TITLE: Glasgow Waltzes
a) Kelvin Grove    [Thomas Lyle]
b) The Lass from Glasgow Town [Sir Jimmy Shand]
c) The Auld Hoose    [Lady Nairne, Carolina Oliphant]
d) I Belong to Glasgow   [Will Fyffe]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE: The Glasgow Highlanders [4×32 bar Strathspey]
a) The Original    [Traditional]
b) Lady Madelina Sinclair  [Niel Gow]
c) Captain Horne    [Traditional]
d) Because he was a Bonnie Lad [Traditional]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Squinty Bridge (4×32 bar Jig)
a) Cornmill Court   [Ian T Muir]
b) The Finnieston Crane  [Iain Cathcart]
c) The Rotunda   [Iain Cathcart]
d) Miss Elizabeth   [John Burns]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Giffnock Polkas
a) Still Going Strong  [Charlie Kirkpatrick]
b) The Jenny Lind Polka  [Anton Wallerstein]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Glasgow’s Coat of Arms
a) The Flowers of the Forest  [Traditional]
b) Dance of the Roag Salmon  [Phil Cunningham]
c) Brian Bell    [George Bell]
d) The Leg of a Duck   [3rd & 4th Parts by Pipe Major Donald MacLeod]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE: The Govan Barn Dance (2/4 Pipe Marches)
a) The Conundrum     [Pipe Major Peter R MacLeod, Partick]
b) John Carmichael’s Farewell to Scotland [Andrew Rankine]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording 

TITLE: Glasgow Gaelic Waltzes
a) Fagail Ghlaschu (Leaving Glasgow) [Roderick Campbell, North Uist]
b) The South Georgia Whaling Song  [Donald “Dottie” MacMillan, South Uist]
c) A Govan Ceilidh    [John Carmichael, Giffnock]
d) The Highlanders’ Institute   [John Carmichael, Giffnock]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording    

TITLE: Kelvingrove Twostep (6/8 Pipe Marches)
a) Miss Sheelah J Nicol of the Glasgow Islay Gaelic Choir [Pipe Major Donald
MacArthur]
b) Ballochyle     [Pipe Major Peter R MacLeod, Partick]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Good Hearted Glasgow (8×32 bar Jig)
a) Good Hearted Glasgow   [David Ross]
b) A Trip to Glasgow    [Traditional]
c) The Glasgow Gaelic Club   [Traditional]
d) Lochiel’s Welcome to Glasgow  [Traditional
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Glasgow Street Songs
a) La Di Da     [Rikki Fulton]
b) The Glasgow Underground  [Cliff Hanley & Ian Gourlay]
c) The Red Yo Yo    [Matt McGinn]
d) Camlachie    [Cliff Hanley & Ian Gourlay]
e) In Dear Old Glasgow Toon  [Billy Graham & John F Stevenson]
f) The Jeely Piece Song   [Adam McNaughtan]
g) La Di Da – Reprise   [Rikki Fulton]
ARTIST: Iain Cathcart Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE:   Song of the Clyde
TRK:  
ARTIST:  Kenneth McKellar
CD:  Scotland Sings
LABEL/CAT NR:  Universal International – 9821990

TITLE:   Annie Mackelvie
TRK:  
ARTIST:  The Riverside Ceilidh Band
CD:  Horses For Courses
LABEL/CAT NR:  Lismor – LCOM 9035

TITLE:   The Glasgow Barrowlands
TRK:  5
ARTIST:  Eddi Reader
CD:  The Tree And The Bird And The Fish And The Bell
LABEL/CAT NR: CBS – 4678802  

TITLE:   Wee Michael’s March / Poodle Girl / Boys of the Puddle 
TRK:  11
ARTIST:  John McCusker
CD:  Transatlantic Sessions 6 – Volume One
LABEL/CAT NR:  Whirlie Records – WHIRLIECD035

TITLE:   Macdonald’s 1st Trip To Glasgow
TRK:  9
ARTIST:  Kathleen MacInnes/Sineag MACINTYRE
CD:  Ceolas Aig Celtic
LABEL/CAT NR:  Ceolas – Ceolas 2015DVD 

TITLE:   The Highlandman’s Umbrella
TRK:  S 2 B 1
ARTIST:  Andy Stewart
CD:  The Very Best of Andy Stewart 
LABEL/CAT NR:  EMI – EMC 3053 

TITLE:   By The Quayside
TRK:  7
ARTIST:  Tide Lines
CD:  Glasgow Love Story
LABEL/CAT NR:  Tide Lines Music 

TITLE:   Pointed Hornpipes
TRK:  2
ARTIST:  Inverary & District Pipe Band
CD:  A Night in That Land

TITLE:   Park Bar Song
TRK:  8
ARTIST:  Gaberlunzie
CD:  Langass:  Isles FM
LABEL/CAT NR:  Isles FM – Ifm001
 
TITLE:   Mother Glasgow
TRK:  
ARTIST:  Hue & Cry
CD:  Bitter Suite
LABEL/CAT NR: Circa Records

TITLE:   I Belong to Glasgow
TRK:  8
ARTIST:  Glen Daly
CD:  Songs from The Highlands and Beyond
LABEL/CAT NR:  Top Town Records

TITLE:   The Waverley Polka
TRK:  
ARTIST:  The Clydesiders
CD:  Scottish Folk Songs of the West
LABEL/CAT NR:  Scotdisc – 191018051822

TITLE:   I Wish I Was In Glasgow
TRK:  
ARTIST:  Billy Connolly
CD:  Musical Tour Of Scotland

Ewan Galloway  Accordion
Alasdair Macleod  2nd Accordion
Andrew Knight Fiddle
Ian Graham   Drums
John Delaney  Double Bass
Alastair McGirr  Piano

TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) The Polar Express  [Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard]
b) Sleigh Ride   [Leroy Anderson]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) Original   [Trad]
b) Jingle Bells 
c) Frosty the Snowman 
d) Go Tell it on the Mountain 
e) God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE:   Set of Strathspeys 4X32
a) Welcome Christmas Morning (The Grinch) [Albert Hague]
b) Somewhere in my Memory (Home Alone) [John Williams]
c) Overture from Miracle on 34th Street  [Bruce Broughton]
d) Walking in the Air (The Snowman)  [Howard Blake]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
a) Happy Christmas (War is Over) [John Lennon & Yoko Ono]
b) Fairytale of New York  [Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan]
c) Mistletoe and Wine   [Cliff Richard]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE: White Heather Foxtrot
a) Winter Wonderland    [Feliz Bernard]
b) Mrs Santa Claus    [Hazel Whalen, Jack Fulton, Lois Steele]
c) Let it Snow, Let is Snow, Let it Snow [Jule Styne] 
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Hollin Bus
a) Farewell to the Tay 
b) Trip to Tobermory 
c) Gallaghers Jig  [Bobby Crowe]
d) Alex Little M.C.  [Max Houliston]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Band Leaders Choice 1
a) The Toytown Trumpeters [William Davies]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording         

TITLE: Round the Room Waltz
a) The Schneewaltzer  (Snow Waltz)
b) The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Trip to Bavaria
a) Remorts of Hertford (Hamish’s Tune) [Hamish Menzies]
b) Anneliese     [Hans-Arno Simon]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Carol Strathspeys
a) Once in Royal David’s City 
b) O Little Town of Bethlehem 
c) Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 
d) In the Bleakmidwinter  [Gustav Holst]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording26

TITLE: Band Leaders Choice 2 – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Medley
a) Pure Imagination
b) I’ve Got a Golden Ticket
c) The Candy Man
d) Oompa Loompa
e) Pure Imagination
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE: Merry Christmas Polkas
a) The Merry Christmas Polka [Sonny Burke]
b) Mele Kalikimaka   [Robert Alexander Anderson]
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE:  Postie’s Jig – Christmas Jigs
a) We Three Kings of Orient Are
b) When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney
c) In Dulci Jubilo
d) Sussex Carol
ARTIST: Ewan Galloway Scottish Dance Band
BBC Take The Floor Recording      

TITLE:   Christmas Came Early This Year
TRK:  1
ARTIST:  Hannah Rarity
CD:  Single
LABEL/CAT NR:  Self-released

TITLE:   The Christmas Eve Waltz
TRK:  4
ARTIST:  Marie Fielding
CD:  An Seisiún
LABEL/CAT NR:  Rumford Records – RUMFORDCD03

TITLE:   Silent Night
TRK:  8
ARTIST:  Emily Smith
CD:  Songs for Christmas
LABEL/CAT NR:   White Fall Records – WERCD015

TITLE:   Gay Gordons: Christmas Dream / Stop The Cavalry
TRK:  10
ARTIST:  Jim Lindsay and his Scottish Dance Band
CD:  Scottish Christmas Dance Party
LABEL/CAT NR:  Highlander

TITLE:   Santa Take Me Home
TRK:  1
ARTIST:  Kathleen MacInnes
CD:  Single
LABEL/CAT NR:  Self-released

TITLE:   Deck the Halls / John Clifford’s #1 / Jingle Bells
TRK:  12
ARTIST:  Cherish the Ladies
CD:  A Star in the East
LABEL/CAT NR:   Big Mammy Records – 0004

TITLE:   Christ Child’s Lullaby
TRK:  13
ARTIST: Dougie Maclean/Aoife O’Donovan/Solas/Alasdair Fraser/Natalie Haas
CD:  Lullabies For Love
LABEL/CAT NR:  Compass Records – COM 45602

TITLE:   Christmas Madness
TRK: 1 
ARTIST:  Ross Miller
CD:  Christmas Madness (Single)
LABEL/CAT NR: Self released

TITLE:   Shandy and Mousetta’s Waltz
TRK: 1 
ARTIST:  Simon Thoumire & Rory Matheson
CD:  Single
LABEL/CAT NR:  Self-released

TITLE:   It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
TRK: 5 
ARTIST:  Karen Matheson
CD:  Phil Cunningham’s Christmas Songbook
LABEL/CAT NR:  Vertical Records – VERTCD103

TITLE:   Welcome Christmas Morning
TRK: 6 
ARTIST:  Jimmy Shand
CD:  The Jimmy Shand Story
LABEL/CAT NR:  EMI – DUO110

TITLE:   Silver Bells
TRK:  
ARTIST:  Jim Reeves
CD:  The Best Christmas Album In The World
LABEL/CAT NR:  Virgin – VTDCD103*

TITLE:   Jingle Bells / Grand Old Duke of York / Loch Lomond/Rudolph The Red Nosed
Reindeer/Jingle Bells
Track Title: Strip The Willow
TRK: 12  
ARTIST: Fergie MacDonald
CD:  Ceilidh King, The
LABEL/CAT NR:  Rannoch Music – MOIDART CD106 

TITLE:   The Christmas Carol Suite
TRK:  17
ARTIST:  The Fire
CD:  Very Scottish Christmas

1ST HOUR 

MICHAEL PHILIP SCOTTISH DANCE BAND 

Michael Philip Lead Accordion
James Coutts 2nd Accordion
Margaret Robertson Fiddle
Graham Berry Piano
Suzanne Gray Acoustic Double Bass
Malcolm Ross Drums        

2ND HOUR  

JOHN MASON MBE – BOOKS OF COMPOSITIONS 

Rognvald Mason 

Jamie Mason 

Mary Sandeman

TITLE: 4/4 Grand March 

a) The Sandison – Couper Wedding March [Margaret Robertson] 

b) Adam and Lesley’s Wedding March [Margaret Robertson] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: The Shetland Reel 

a) Margaret and Donald Ferguson [Steven Spence] 

b) Melvin’s 60th [Emma Leask] 

c) Sandy Couper of Voe [Margaret Robertson] 

d) Jessie Couper’s Reel [Margaret Robertson] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Canadian Barn Dance – 2/4 Pipe Marches 

a) Pipe Major J McWilliams [Pipe Major Donald MacLeod] 

b) Bowhill Highland Games [Michael D Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: St Bernards Waltz 

a) Miss Zara Sinclair [Michael D Philip] 

b) Tribute to Thomas Andrew Simpson [Michael D Philip] 

c) Bonnie Banks O Dee [Paul Anderson] 

d) Both Sides of the Tweed [Dick Gaughan] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Country Dance Jigs 

a) Rosco’s Jig [Michael D Philip] 

b) The Michty No. 9 [Michael D Philip] 

c) The Spittal Jig [Michael D Philip] 

d) The Rabbit’s Raw [Michael D Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Strathspeys 

a) Winnie’s Strathspey [Michael D Philip] 

b) Mr & Mrs Norrie William’s Strathspey [Michael D Philip] 

c) Mrs Carol Clancy [Michael Philip] 

d) Shawsmill [Michael Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Band Leader’s Choice – No 2 – Medley 

a) 3/4 Retreat March – George Wallace’s Welcome to Bowhill Highland Games   [Michael D Philip] 

b) 9/8 Jig –  Angus John MacNeil of Barra  [A J MacNeil] 

c) Pipe Reel – Major David Manson [Peter R MacLeod] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording  

TITLE: The Whistling Ferryman  [Michael Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Eva Three Step – 6/8 Pipe Marches 

a) Michael Philip – The Champion Tutor [Leonard Brown] 

b) The Recognition [Michael D Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Old Time Waltz 

a) The Doll’s House [Margaret Robertson] 

b) The Skipper’s Waltz [Michael D Philip] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Pipe Reels 

a) Primo McFarlane’s Reel  [Michael D Philip] 

b) Lexi McAskill [Dr John McAskill] 

c) David McIntosh [Michael D Philip] 

d) The Blackbird [Dr C Bannatyne] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Band Leader’s Choice – No. 1 Slow Air 

a) Still Water – Margaret Robertson 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

 TITLE: Boston Two Step 

A) Jarl Einar’s Farewell to Longa Berg [Margaret Robertson] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE: Orcadian Strip the Willow – pipe jigs 

a) Pipe Major Hunter Wylie [Michael Philip] 

b) Peter Bruce – The Tutor [Michael Philip] 

c) The Judge’s Dilemma [Pipe Major Donald MacLeod] 

d) The Sleep Fighter [Brian Lamond] 

ARTIST: Michael Philip Scottish Dance Band 

BBC Take The Floor Recording

TITLE:   Cùm na Ghealladh 

TRK: 5 

ARTIST:  Sian 

CD:  araon 

LABEL/CAT NR: 

TITLE:   Dashing White Sergeant 

ARTIST:  Ceilidh Collective 

LABEL/CAT NR:  BBC Take the Floor Recording

TITLE:   Saturday Night 

TRK: 9 

ARTIST:  Siobhan Miller 

CD:  Bloom 

LABEL/CAT NR:  Songprint Records – SPR006CD

TITLE:   Ceud Mile Failte (Medley) 

TRK: 10 

ARTIST:  The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra 

CD:  The Bluebells Of Scotland 

LABEL/CAT NR:  Red Cab Records – 885686591109

TITLE:   The Arran Shepherd / John Mason’s Compliments to The Rev James Currie 

TRK: 2 

ARTIST:  The Scottish Fiddle Orchestra 

LP:  Scottish Fiddlers Rally 

LABEL/CAT NR: Rel Records – REL 454

TITLE: The Stronsay’s Silver Darling Grand March    

TRK:  

ARTIST:  Stronsay Silver Darlings  

CD:   

LABEL/CAT NR:

TITLE:   Goodnight and Safe Home:  

Kemnay House, Golden Slippers, Willie and Bessie, Peedie Sea Indian, Caddam Wood 

TRK:  

ARTIST:  Scottish Fiddle Orchestra  

CD:  Homeward Bound  

LABEL/CAT NR:  REL

TITLE:   Goodfellow’s: The Creaking Ceilidh Crew / Kristan’s Bluesy Tune / Telfer’s Tune / Cameron’s Gamble 

TRK: 7 

ARTIST:  Blazin’ Fiddles 

CD:  XXV 

LABEL/CAT NR:  Blazin Records – BFCD2023