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Mod 2010 - Music Memory Store
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MusicMemory Store – James Ross |
| James Ross is from Wick and was taught by Addie Harper Senior and Junior. He is earning a growing reputation as a composer of music that pushes the boundaries of Scottish traditional music. He has received commissions from the Celtic Connections Festival, Blas Festival, Feis Rois and the Caithness Orchestra. James teaches traditional piano at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. |
| I have chosen a track by Addie Harper and the Wick Band from the CD ‘Her Caithness Home’. (Harp Records 2000) The CD was a musical tribute to the Queen mother and the repertoire on the album has strong Caithness connections. The track is a set of four great reels that I was taught at music lessons when I was young and continue to play today. The first two tunes composed by the late Addie Harper and the last two reels by his son Addie Harper Jnr. The set starts with ‘The Barrowburn Reel’, one of Addie’s most popular compositions followed by ‘Walking on the Moon’. Addie was inspired to write this reel when the first person landed on the Moon in 1969. Both these reels have become part of the traditional musicians repertoire and are regularly performed and recorded by artists. Addie Jnr wrote ‘Stephanie Manola Harper's Reel’ for the birth of his daughter and ‘Wick Rotary Club's Compliments to Addie Harper Snr’ when the club presented his father with the Wick Citizen of the Year Award in 1997. I was lucky enough to be taught by both Addie Snr and Addie Jnr and they have both been a huge influence on my music. |
| Thagh mi aon bhon chlàr aig Addie Harper agus Còmhlan-Ciùil Inbhir Ùige, ‘ A Dachaigh an Gallaibh’. ( Harp Records 2000). Is e moladh-ciùil do Mhathair na Banrigh a bha seo, CD a tha a’ leantain gu dlùth ri dualchas Ghallaibh.Is e seata de cheithir ruidhlean a tha seo air a’ chlàr, a’ chiad is an dàrna fonn air a chur ri chèile le Addie Harper nach maireann agus an dà ruidhle mu dheireadh le mhac Addie Harper Òg.Tha an seata a’ tòiseachadh le ‘ Ruidhle Barrowburn’, aon de na chuir Addie ri chèile a chòrd ri iomadach neach agus an dèidh sin tha ‘ A’ Coiseachd air a’ Ghealaich’. Nuair a chaidh a’ chiad neach chun na gealaich sgrìobh Addie an ruidhle anns a’ bhliadhna 1969. Tha an dà ruidhle sin a-nis mar phàirt de na bhios neach-ciùil traidiseanta a’ cluich gu tric agus air a’ chlàradh le luchd-ealain.Sgrìobh Ady Òg ‘Ruidhle Stephanie Manola Harper’ a’ comharrachadh latha-breith a nighinn agus chomharraich Comann Rotary Inbhir Ùige obair Addie Harper fhèin leis an urram Prìomh Neach Inbhir Ùige a dheanamh dheth anns a’ bhliadhna 1997.Bha mise air leth fortanach gun robh mi air m’ oideachadh leis an dà Addie agus thug sin buaidh mhòr air a’ cheòl agam. |
| Copies of this CD are available to borrow, at no cost, from the collection of CD’s selected as MusicMemory Store, from Wick and Thurso Libraries. It can be heard on Mondays 7-8pm on Caithness FM as a part of the Scottish Show with Hughie Manson and on Radio nan Gàidheal.Music Memory Store is a partnership between the Mòd Ghallaibh Fringe and the Highland Libraries – Caithness branches, Wick & Thurso.Contact The Mòd Ghallaibh Fringe: [email protected] |
Published: 02 Jun 2010
