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October 2007 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Guitar & Mandolin — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX317

Ross Kennedy has been a professional folk musician for over 25 years. He has toured, recorded and played with Scottish legends The Tannahill Weavers and was also the founding member of great bands such as The Iron Horse, The Jura Ceilidh Band and Canterach. Ross also had a very successful and long… read more

September 2007 — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX297

Gordon at his very best - a must-have recording for piping fans. Possibly the most skilful and innovative piper ever, Gordon’s influence is still felt after his untimely death. Gordon recorded three solo albums for Greentrax Recordings - Just For Seumas, The Circular Breath and Thunderstruck -… read more

August 2007 — Fiddle — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX319

The Cast came into being when Mairi and Dave joined forces after meeting each other in the burgeoning traditional music and dance scene in Edinburgh. They have since performed extensively throughout the UK and Ireland, in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy and North America, and… read more

June 2007 — Fiddle — CD — CDTRAX305

Chris Stout is a member of top Shetland band Fiddlers’ Bid - he is also a member of The Finlay MacDonald Band he works as a duo with harpist Catriona MacKay (also of Fiddlers’ Bid). Following on from Chris’s widely praised first album First O’ The Darkenin’, Devil’s Advocate marks a… read more

June 2007 — Masters Of Piobaireachd — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX318

Volume 9 in this highly acclaimed series follows the successful formula of the previous CDs, with a minimum of interference to original recordings. The recordings included here were made by Norman A Matheson at Birkhall, Malcolm McRae at Balmoral and by Robert U Brown at Balmoral for Dr Kenneth… read more

May 2007 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX312

John Munro was born in Glasgow and ‘escaped’ to Australia at the age of 18 years. Having had a flirtation with folk music in Scotland, John found the local folk haunts in Australia and was soon immersed in the music. John was a founder member of Country Express in 1969 and later Colcannon… read more

April 2007 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX306

Alison McMorland was born in Renfrewshire into a musical family. She has enjoyed a long involvement in traditional music at various levels: singer, collector, broadcaster, author and tutor on the Scottish Music course at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow. Alison came to wider… read more

April 2007 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX313

Robin Laing is a professional musician and writer based in rural South Lanarkshire. He is known as an interpreter of traditional Scottish songs and his own songs, many of which have been covered by other artists. His songs are on a wide variety of subjects, from Ulysses to Clydesdale horses and from… read more

February 2007 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Compilations — CD — CDTRAX310

This album was first released by the RSAMD as a limited edition in 2002, and includes many of the top students at the Academy at that time, plus their tutors. The students are Liam Brown, Neil Cameron, Stuart Cassells, Kirsty Cotter, Dominique Dodge, Gillian Frame, James Graham, Kathleen Graham,… read more

December 2006 — All Time Top Sellers — 2023 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — 2018 Top 20 — 2017 Top 20 — 2016 Top 20 — Celtic Collections — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDGMP8012

Celtic Collections vol 12. This album has proved to be hugely popular and is a Greentrax All Time Top Seller. Songs by female vocalists from the Greentrax back catalogue. Each song has the theme of love and reflection, resulting in an album of very powerful songs, old and new, superbly interpreted by some of Scotland’s… read more

November 2006 — Celtic Collections — Spoken Word — CD — CDGMP8011

Celtic Collections vol 11. Bill Barclay is a well known and loved comedian and singer on the Scottish music scene and beyond. He was a radio presenter on Radio Forth for many years and has acted in TV dramas and comedies, often as a policeman. This album was first released in 1990 on cassette but is now released on CD to meet… read more

November 2006 — Accordion & Melodeon — Ceilidh & Scottish Dance Bands — CD — CDTRAX303

Vol 1 - The Ceilidh The Glencraig Scottish Dance Band was formed in 1983 when Nicol McLaren, then a salesman in Blairgowrie, was asked by a customer if he could put together a band for a church social. From that gig came another half dozen bookings and the Glencraig SDB was born. The band was named… read more

October 2006 — Guitar & Mandolin — CD — CDTRAX302

This third recording from Scots mandolinist Kevin MacLeod, of The Occasionals Ceilidh Band, features a lively collection of Scottish and Irish traditional music, and also some new melodies from several contemporary composers including himself. He is joined by three masters of the tradition -… read more

September 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — CD — CDTRAX298

Sandy Meldrum, steeped in a Scottish musical background from childhood, plays both the piano and piano accordion. He is the first-ever Honours graduate in Traditional Piano from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Scottish Music Degree Course. In a very short time he has established… read more

August 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bands — CD — CDTRAX295

Their self-titled debut album. Award-winning band Bodega are highly talented and versatile, and together their music has a kind of fierce energy, imagination and joie de vivre that you just do not hear very often. They sing songs brilliantly and they play tunes superbly. They sing in both Gaelic and… read more

July 2006 — All Time Top Sellers — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX291

A new studio album from the former Runrig frontman, Donnie Munro - his first for four years. He has been recently been touring solo and with The Donnie Munro Band, and has a large and faithful following both at home and abroad, particularly in Germany. The album is centred on themes of migration and… read more

June 2006 — Masters Of Piobaireachd — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX292

Volume 8 of this highly acclaimed series of original recordings of The Bobs of Balmoral, which consist of Robert U Brown and Robert B Nicol giving instruction on the art of piobaireachd. When their competing days were over, ‘the Bobs’ began the task of passing their knowledge on to future… read more

June 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bagpipes — CD — CDTRAX293

The second part of a live recording from the previous four-time World Champions, under the direction of Pipe Major Terry Lee. Recorded at The Simon Fraser University Theatre, BC, Canada, and celebrating the Band’s 40th Anniversary in 2005. The solo pipers on the album are Alan Bevin, who continues… read more

May 2006 — All Time Top Sellers — 2023 Top 20 — 2022 Top 20 — 2021 Top 20 — 2020 Top 20 — 2019 Top 20 — 2018 Top 20 — 2017 Top 20 — 2016 Top 20 — Gaelic Song — CD — CDTRAX294

Summer Dawn. Kathleen MacInnes was born and brought up on South Uist, Western Isles, in a Gaelic-speaking home, and has enjoyed a career in television and the theatre as an actress, presenter and singer. This is her debut album and also features some wonderful session musicians, including Ross Martin (guitar),… read more

May 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Scottish Tradition Series — Solo Singers & Songwriters — Spoken Word — CD — CDTRAX9022

Scottish Tradition Series vol 22. Volume 22 consists of children’s songs and rhymes and is an important addition to the Scottish Tradition Series. The School of Scottish Studies Archives is an important source of Scottish children’s lore. On this album, a selection of material in Scots recorded over a period of three decades… read more

April 2006 — 2019 Top 20 — 2018 Top 20 — 2017 Top 20 — 2016 Top 20 — Celtic Collections — Compilations — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDGMP8010

Celtic Collections vol 10. An album from the 1970s which was recorded in Edinburgh’s famous folk music bar Sandy Bell’s (The Forrest Hill Bar) and at Pan Audio Studios. Many of the Sandy Bell’s Bar regulars of the time feature on the album, including Aly Bain, Dick Gaughan, The McCalmans, Chorda, Liz & Maggie… read more

April 2006 — Celtic Collections — Vocal Groups — CD — CDGMP8009

Celtic Collections vol 9. The McCalmans are one of Scotland’s most popular and enduring vocal harmony groups. This popular album first emerged in 1986 and went on to be awarded a Scottish Record Industry Association Gold Disc for sales achieved. Ian McCalman (guitars, bodhran, vocals), Derek Moffat (guitar, vocals), Nick… read more

April 2006 — Bands — CD — CDTRAX288

One of Scotland’s longest established folk groups. Formed during the great surge of interest in traditional and Celtic music and song in the late 1960s, The Whistlebinkies evolved into a leading force in their field. They led the revival in the use of the bellows-blown bagpipes in Scotland and… read more

April 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Guitar & Mandolin — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX290

Another original album from one of the foremost and highly regarded folksingers of our time - Dick Gaughan was recently voted one of the Top 10 Folk Voices Of The 20th Century by listeners of BBC Radio 2’s Mike Harding Show. Dick is acknowledged as one of Scotland’s most outstanding musicians.… read more

February 2006 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — More Instrumental — CD — CDTRAX284

Pianist James Ross studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, and graduated with a BA in Scottish Music in 2000. He then completed the MA in Traditional Irish Music Preformance in 2001, studying piano under Professor Michael O’Suilleabhain at the University of Limerick,… read more

December 2005 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX287

Eric Bogle’s first album of new songs since 2002, Other People’s Children is another exceptional collection of songs from this prolific songwriter. In Hallowed Ground Eric re-visits No Man’s Land and the World War 1 graveyards, and he reflects on the elderly in The Last Of The Old Timers. In… read more

November 2005 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Vocal Groups — CD — CDTRAX276

Few new Scottish bands of recent times have made such an impact as Malinky - this Scots/Irish five-piece band has emerged as one of the hottest properties on the international Celtic scene. Winners of a Danny Award for their open-stage performance at the Celtic Connections festival in 1999, Malinky… read more

November 2005 — £6 Stock Clearance CDs — Bands — CD — CDTRAX280

GiveWay are four young sisters - Fiona Johnson (fiddle, guitar, vocals), Kirsty (piano accordion, two-row button box, lead vocals), Mairi (keyboards, piano, vocals) and Amy (drum kit, percussion, vocals). They play a heady mixture of Scottish traditional music, from haunting airs to lively jigs and… read more

October 2005 — Fiddle — Harp (Clarsach) — CD — CDTRAX278

Laebrack features Catriona McKay (Scottish harp) and Chris Stout (fiddle, viola), both members of the thrilling seven-piece Shetland band Fiddlers’ Bid, currently one of Scotland’s hottest musical exports. Both also perform regularly as a duo. Catriona won the Jakez Francois International Celtic… read more

September 2005 — Solo Singers & Songwriters — CD — CDTRAX285

On this album Alan, director of the Fylde Folk Festival, returns to his roots as a singer and, to meet many requests from around the world, Alan and his friends have re-recorded the most popular and requested songs written in his forty-year career as a songwriter. Alan Bell was born and bred on the… read more