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Take the Floor

05/03/2011

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Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

For the very best of Scottish traditional music and song join Robbie Shepherd. In session this week, The Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band, with a programme packed with variety. Robbie's guests are Margaret Bennett and Doris Rougvie and together they chat about a book of Perthshire. A not forgetting the latest tracks from CD's.
email: takethefloor@bbc.co.uk
write to: Take The Floor, BBC, Beechgrove Terrace, Aberdeen, AB15 5ZT.

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  • WAYNE ROBERTSON SCOTTISH DANCE BAND

    WAYNE ROBERTSON SCOTTISH DANCE BAND

    Wayne Robertson Lead Accordion
    Ron Kerr Fiddle
    Davie Stewart Harmony Accordion
    Gill Simpson Keyboard/midi bass
    Malcolm Ross Drums

    Guest Piano Player – Gordon Cree

  • PLAYLIST

    TITLE: Kate Dalrymple
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: Gay Gordons
    a) Professor Blackie (Skinner)
    b) Doctor Laing Of Fochabers (Wm Marshall)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording





    TITLE: The River
    TRK: 12
    ARTIST: Alan Reid
    CD: Collection
    LABEL/CAT NR: Temple Records – COMD2103




    TITLE: Eva Three Step
    a) The Atholl Highlanders (Trad)
    b) J G Hunter Of Aultbea (A Downie)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: The Gathering 6x32
    a) Mrs Mary Printy (I MacPhail)
    b) Willie Anderson Of Dalharon (G Bell)
    c) Fiona Robertson’s Reel (R Kerr)
    d) Granny Kate (R Kerr)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording






    TITLE: St Bernard’s Waltz
    a) Pat Ferguson’s Waltz (Billy Anderson)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording








    TITLE: Campbell’s Frolic 4x32 Jig
    a) The Original (Trad)
    b) James Stephen (Angus Fitchet)
    c) Clay Braes (L Ross)
    d) The Weaver & His Wife (A Rankine)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording





    TITLE: Boston Two-Step
    a) The Ogilvie Arms Two-Step (D Smith)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording


    TITLE: Air – Wayne Robertson and Gordon Cree
    a) Dream Angus (Trad)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording





    TITLE: From Scotia’s Shores We’re Noo Awa-Strathspey 3x32
    a) The Original
    b) The Marchioness Of Huntly (Wm Marshall)
    c) Johnnie Steele (Trad)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording





    TITLE: Sapphire Samba – Wayne, Malcolm, Gordon & Davie
    a) The Parrot On The Fortune Teller’s Hat (Z Abreu)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording








    TITLE: The Sailor 6x32 Reel
    a) The Original (Trad)
    b) The Handsome Ploughboy (O’Neills)
    c) Wright’s Hornpipe (O’Neills)
    d) The Swansea Hornpipe (Trad)
    e) The Good Natured Man (O’Neills)
    f) Neil Donald (Ronnie Jamieson)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: Fraser’s Wiggle / Price of a Pig / The Sally Gardens
    TRK: 8
    ARTIST: Cairdeas
    CD: The Thinner Line
    LABEL/CAT NR: Cairdeas – CA102CD




    TITLE: The Spinning Wheel
    TRK: S 1 B 2
    ARTIST: The MacDonald Sisters
    CD: Four Bonnie Highland Lassies
    LABEL/CAT NR: Emerald Gem – GEM 1031




    TITLE: Kiss Me Quik Reel
    Original Air / George Wark / Elegant Esther Gray
    TRK: 18
    ARTIST: Lindsay Ross Scottish Dance Band
    CD: Lindsay Ross
    LABEL/CAT NR: Ythan Music - CFIRST01




    TITLE: Highland Schottische
    a) The Highland Wedding (A MacKay)
    b) The Kilted Runner (Trad)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: Orcadian Strip The Willow 8x32 Jig
    a) Miss Lauren Rose Patrick’s Jig (I Holmes)
    b) The Cornerhouse Jig (A Rankine)
    c) The Drunken Parson (Trad)
    d) The Dandy Dancer (J Johnstone)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: Band Leaders Choice – Viennese Waltz – Wayne Robertson and Gordon Cree
    a) Delirien (Josef Strauss)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording








    TITLE: Mrs MacLeod Reel 6x32
    Mrs MacLeod Of Raasay (Trad)
    The Big Birl (R Mathieson)
    Willie Davie (Trad)
    Struy Lodge (Willie Ross)
    ARTIST: Wayne Robertson Scottish Dance Band
    BBC Take The Floor Recording




    TITLE: The Green and The Blue
    ARTIST: Alan Reid
    CD: Collection
    LABEL/CAT NR: Temple Records – COMD2103

  • FEATURE - MARGARET BENNETT AND DORIS ROUGVIE

    Margaret and Doris joins us this week to discuss the release of their book "In Our Day...Reminiscences And Songs From Rural Perthshire" (Grace Notes Publication) with some special tunes from the CD enclosed....



    TITLE: The Rowan Tree
    ARTIST: Doris Rougvie and Margaret Bennett
    CD: In Our Day...Reminiscences And Songs From Rural Perthshire
    TRACK: 7
    ISBN: 9781907676024




    TITLE: The Lass Of Glenshee
    ARTIST: Margaret Bennett, Alistair Iain Paterson and RSAMD Students
    CD: In Our Day...Reminiscences And Songs From Rural Perthshire
    TRACK: 11
    ISBN: 9781907676024



    TITLE: The Spring O’ Twenty-Eight
    ARTIST: Duncan McNab and Chorus
    CD: In Our Day...Reminiscences And Songs From Rural Perthshire
    TRACK: 6
    ISBN: 9781907676024

  • PLAYLIST

    TITLE: Happy Retirement
    TRK: 9
    ARTIST: Joan Blue
    CD: Fiddling with a Piano
    LABEL/CAT NR: 2004 Perdy Syers-Gibson / PSGJB 1





    TITLE: John MacNeil’s / Maid Behind The Bar / The Reoncilliation
    TRK: 11
    ARTIST: Cairdeas
    CD: The Thinner Line
    LABEL/CAT NR: Cairdeas – CA102CD

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