Road to the Isles Sample Concert Program
(Selections subject to change)

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Road to the Isles

A journey through music and dance to the lochs and glens of the old Celtic lands.

George Balderose: Highland Pipes & Smallpipes; Oliver Browne: Irish Fiddle; Becky Craig: Scottish Dance; Melinda Crawford: Scottish Fiddle; Cliodhna Graven: Irish Dance; Richard Hughes: Flute, Guitar, vocals

Sample Concert Program

(Selections subject to change)

First Set

1. 4/4 Marches - George Balderose (Great Highland Pipes)
   The Minstrel Boy, The Wearing of the Green, & Scotland the Brave
2. Sword Dance – The Ghillie Callum – Becky Craig & George Balderose
   (2 slow steps and one quick step)
3. Song: The Galway Races - Richard Hughes
   vocal & guitar)
4. Lowland Set: Melinda, Oliver, George, & Richard
   (John Anderson My Jo, Mount Your Baggage, Go To Berwick, Johnny)
5. Dances: Highland Fling and Reel - Becky , Cliodhna, Melinda, Oliver, George, Richard. (strathspeys- The Keel Row, What Ails Ye? Orange and Blue; reel- The High Road to Linton)
6. Tunes: Melinda, Oliver, George, Richard.
   Cutting Bracken, Stack ‘Em Up in Piles, Cutting Bracken (Air).
7. Fiddle Solo – Melinda Crawford – Tunes to be announced
8. Dance: Slip Jigs - Cliodhna, Melinda, Oliver, George, & Richard
   (The Rocky Road to Dublin, Drops of Brandy)
9. Song & 6/8 March: Melinda, Oliver, George, Richard
   Rattlin’ Roarin’ Willie & The Atholl Highlanders.
10. Dance: The Irish Hornpipe & Sailor’s Hornpipe - ALL
    (My Love is But a Lassie Yet, The Rakes of Mallow)

INTERMISSION

Second Set

1. 6/8 March - George (Great Highland Pipes) – The Sweet Maid of Mull
2. Dance: Becky & George;
   Sean Triubhas – (4 slow steps, 2 quick steps)
3. Bagpipe Music Medley – George: March, Strathspey, & 2 Reels
   (Donald MacLean’s Farewell to Oban, Maggie Cameron, The De'il Amang the Tailors, Miss MacLeod’s Reel;)
4. Song: Richard (To be Announced)
5. Dance: Slow Hornpipe – Cliodhna, Oliver, & Richard
   (The Plains of Boyle)
6. Fiddle Solo – Oliver (To Be Announced).
7. Song: Richard (vocal w/guitar), Melinda, and Oliver.
   The Lark in the Morning
8. Dance: The Highland Laddie – Becky, Melinda, Oliver, George, Richard
9. Dance: Irish Hardshoe Reel – Cliodhna, Oliver, Richard
10. Lowland Tunes: – Melinda, Oliver, George, & Richard
    (Coffee & Tea, Wee Totum Fogg)
11. Irish & Highland Reels - Richard, Oliver, George
    (MacPhee’s Reel, Malcolm Currie, The Cuckoo, Inver Lasses, Buntata Scatan)
12. Dance: Irish Jig + Scottish version of the Jig - ALL (The Irish Washerwoman, Paddy's Leather Britches, The Kesh Jig )

This project is partially supported by a grant from Pennsylvania Performing Arts on Tour, a program developed and funded by the Vira I. Heinz Endowment; the William Penn Foundation; the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the Pew Charitable Trusts; and administered by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation.

Funding for concert performances and workshops by Road to the Isles is available to non-profit presenters throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. For more information contact PennPat at (www.pennpat.org) (215)496-9424, or Music Tree at () (412) 323-2707.