Free Winter Instructors’ Concert on YouTube!

Balmoral's free Winter Workshop Instructors' Concert.

Join us on YouTube tonight at 7:30pm for the Premiere of a free online concert featuring our Winter Workshop Guest Instructors Roddy MacLeod MBE, Bruce Gandy & Andrew Carlisle, as well as Balmoral Director George Balderose, Staff Instructor Richmond Johnston, Balmoral Drumming Program Director Gordon Bell, and Celtic Ensemble Road to the Isles with Irish and Scottish Dancers! Performers, tunes & times below.

Link to the Concert on YouTube!

Introduction – 00:00:00

By Balmoral Director and Co-Founder, George Balderose

Roddy MacLeod – 00:01:43

  • Iain Campbell of Oban
  • Ishabel T. MacDonald
  • Loch An Duinn
  • Over the Bows to Ballindalloch
  • Stirling Castle
  • Rip the Calico
  • In and Out of the Harbour
  • The Bird’s Nest
  • Dr Alasdair MacKenzie
  • Piobaireachd Ground  – Lament for Donald Doughal MacKay
  • March, Strathspey and Reel
    1. Mrs Donald MacLean
    2. Arniston Castle
    3. Alick Cameron Champion Piper
  • The Day the Co-op Flooded
  • I. Brown’s Mod
  • Donnie Macgregor

George Balderose – 00:23:16

  • Nearer My God to Thee
  • The March of the King of Laois
  • Go to Berwick Johnny
  • Mount Your Baggage
  • John Anderson My Jo
  • High Over Bunnochton
  • Calleanish

Bruce Gandy – 00:29:16

John D Burgess (S Cockburn)

Angus Mackinnon  (Donald Shaw Ramsay)

Beverley’s Wedding  (Bruce Gandy)

Jimmy Brogan’s Drouthy Cronies  (Bruce Gandy)

The Curlew  (Donald MacPherson)

Gypsy’s Dance  (Donald Macleod)

John MacFadyen of Melfort  (John MacColl)

Caledonian Society of London   (Traditional)

Brown Haired Maid  ( Setting by Donald MacLeod)

Intermission – 00:42:26

MSR performed by Terry Tully, Robert Mathieson & Gordon Bell for the 2018 Balmoral Summer School Instructors’ Concert in Pittsburgh.

Gordon Bell and students – 00:45:16

Richmond Johnston – 00:51:03

  • The Welllington Police Pipers in Australia (by Alastair Hanning)
  • Blustering Home (by Michael Grey)
  • 4-Part 6/8 Marches:
    1. Leaving Port Askaig (by P/M William Ross)
    2. Jean Mauchline (by P/M William Bryson)
    3. Pipe Major Donald Maclean of Lewis  (by P/M Donald Macleod)
  • Mount Hills (Dancing Master, 1701)

Andrew Carlisle – 01:01:17

  • Irish 4/4 Marches appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day
    1. The South Down Militia, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    2. The Star of the County Down, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    3. The Green Glens of Antrim, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    4. The Old Dungannon Road, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    5. The Minstrel Boy, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    6. The Inniskilling Dragoon, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
  • Strathspeys and Reels
    1. The Shepherd’s Crook, Traditional Scottish
    2. Susan MacLeod, Composed: P/M Donald MacLeod MBE
    3. Col. D.J.S. Murray, Composed: P/M Angus MacDonald MBE
    4. The Grey Bob, Traditional Scottish
  • Piobaireachd Urlar – Lament for Donald Duaghal MacKay (Thought to be

composed by Iain Dàll MacKay, Gairloch ‘the blind piper’1656-1754)

  • Scottish Jigs
    1. Donald MacLean, P/M Peter R. MacLeod
    2. Donald Cameron’s Powder Horn, P/M Donald MacLeod MBE
    3. Butterfingers, P/M Donald MacLeod MBE
  • Slow Air and Irish Reels
    1. The Cliffs of Doneen, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    2. O’Rourke’s Reel, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    3. A Glass of Beer, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    4. Rip the Calico, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    5. The Congress Reel, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle
    6. Richard Dwyers, Traditional Irish, Arranged: A. Carlisle

Road to the Isles – 01:22:03

Celtic Ensemble featuring George Balderose (Smallpipes), Oliver Brown (Fiddle), Richard Hughes (Irish Flute), Glenna Van Dyke (Smallpipes), with Sheila Clark (Irish Dancer) & Brittany Maniet (Scottish Dancer).

  • Dance: The Slip Jig, Tune: The Rocky Road to Dublin
  • Dance: The Highland Fling, Tunes:
    1. The Keel Row
    2. What Ail’s Ye
    3. Orange and Blue
  • Lowland Set:
    1. John Anderson My Jo
    2. Mount Your Baggage
    3. Go Tae Berwick Johnny
  • Dances: The Irish Jig & The Scottish Version of the Irish Jig
    Tunes:

    1. The Irish Washerwoman
    2. Paddy’s Leather Britches
    3. The Kesh Jig