2026-01-10 Celtic Connections 2019

Take The Floor
Take The Floor
2026-01-10 Celtic Connections 2019
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Robert Nairn and his Highland Dance Band
Robert Nairn   Lead accordion
Andrew Macdonald Second accordion
Ewen Henderson  Fiddle
Ross Wilson  Keyboard
Allan Nairn   Banjo and Guitar 
Hugh MacCallum   Drums

David Kennedy and his Scottish Dance Band
David Kennedy   Lead accordion
Scott Nichol   Second accordion
Tom Gold   Fiddle
Steven Todd   Keyboard
Andrew Gibb   Drums
Brian Cruickshank  Bass
Shelley Clark  Vocal
Ross Anderson  Percussion

TITLE:   Kate Dalrymple
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Grand March
a) Come Along    [Trad]
b) Lord Lovet’s Lament   [Trad]
c) The Yellow Corn    [Trad]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Barn Dance
a) John Davies’ Farewell to Oban  [Robert Nairn]
b) The Balkin Hills    [Corporal J. Gillan]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Boston Two Step
a) The Garden where the Praties Grow  [Trad]
b) Kishorn Commandos    [Gordon MacKenzie]
c) One Hundred Pipers    [Trad]
d) The Cock of the North    [Trad]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Gaelic Waltz
a) Gradh na h-oige   [Trad]
b) An Kiora    [Trad]
c) An E-ala Bhan   [Donald MacDonald]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Eva Three Step
a) Nell Flackerty’s Drake   [Trad]
b) Wade’s Welcome to Inverness  [R. Meldrum]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Strip the Willow
a) Inspector Campbell of Ness   [PM Donald MacLeod]
b) Paddy’s Leather Breaches    [Trad]
c) Turf Lodge      [P.M Angus MacDonald]
d) The Thief of Lochaber    [Trad]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) The Boys of Ballivanich    [Trad]
b) Hills of Perth     [Trad]
c) The Hills of Glenorchy    [Trad]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Pride of Erin Waltz
a) The Homes of Dognegal   [Trad Arr R. Nairn]
b) A Mother’s Love’s a Blessing  [Trad Arr R. Nairn]
c) Forty Shades of Green   [Johnny Cash]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Progressive Barn Dance
a) Aoghnas Grant’s March   [Allan Henderson]
b) The Balmoral Highlanders   [Angus MacKay]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) The Black Face Sheep   [Robert Nairn]
b) The Banjo Boy    [Robert Nairn]
c) The Reel Philally    [Fegie MacDonald]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Britannia Two Step
a) Ken Muirs up and Awa Willie  [Trad]
b) The Echoes of Oban   [Donald MacPherson]
c) Kenneth J MacLeod   [PM Donald MacLeod]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
a) Teann a Nall    [Trad]
b) Morag a Dun Bheagan   [Trad]
c) Fagail Lis Mor    [Trad]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Orcadian Strip the Willow
a) Saddle the Pony    [Trad]
b) The Piteucher Jig    [Douglas Muir]
c) Kenny Gillies    [P.MacFarquhar]
d) The Prince of Wales   [Trad]
e) The Inevitable Journey  [Robert Nairn]
ARTIST: Robert Nairn Highland Dance Band
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TITLE: Gay Gordons
a) Willie Johnstone of Dunnydeer    [M Philip]                                                                                                                                                                    
b) Day Trip to Gibraltar     [Robert Black]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Circassian Circle
a) Once in a Blue Moose     [Niall Vallely]
b) Laura’s Tune      [Marie Fielding]
c) Back to Belfast      [Barry Kerr]
d) Mick O’Connor’s
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Highland Schottische
a) Helen Black of Inveran
b) Aimee Mae     [Gordon Shand]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: The Irish Boy    [Trad]
ARTIST: Shelley Clark
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TITLE: Boston Two-Step
a) Meet me in Cairnhill Woods
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
a) Aly’s Waltz     [Terry Rasmussen]
b) A waltz for Roy     [David Kennedy]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Riverside Jig
a) Big Deek      [David Kennedy]
b) Liam O’Connor’s     [Patrick Davey]
c) Heidi Hendy     [Andy Cutting]
d) Trip to Kilkenny     [John McCusker]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Britannia Two-Step
a) Alexander Norman Forbes
b)Angus MacColl
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Dashing White Sergeant
a) Amy’s Reel     [Keith Dickson]
b) The Singing Stream    [Niall Valleley]
c) The Curlew     [Josephine Keegan]
d) The Road to Ballymac    [Vincent Leslie]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Old Time Waltz
a) The Dark Island     [Iain MacLachlan]
b) Can’t Help Falling in Love [Elvis Presley, Hugo Peretti; Luigi Creatore; George David Weiss]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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TITLE: Touch the Sky  [Alex Mandel] 
ARTIST: Shelley Clark
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TITLE: Orcadian Strip the Willow
a) The Rambler     [Tommy Sullivan]
b) The Pitteuchar Jig
c) Johnny O’Leary’s
d) Dingle David     [Ciaran O’Grady]
e) Swallows Reel     [Charlie McKerron]
f) The Levenshulme Leap    [Collin Farrell]
ARTIST: David Kennedy Scottish Dance Band
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