The Banff and Buchan Collection

Allan's Hill Age Concern Burns Night
Charles Birnie, The Belly Band (Ken Ramsay, Iain Sutherland, Kenny Sim, Bob Watson; accordion, mandolin, guitar), Allan Sellar, Gordon Easton, Tom McKean, Charlie Thompson, ????, 20/01/1994

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NEFA 1994.005.01   Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: The Shearin's no for You
S:
Cont. from previous tape. 

NEFA 1994.005.02   Transcription
P: The Belly Band
T: Belfast City
FL: I'll tell me ma when I go home

NEFA 1994.005.03   Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Musical consequences game

S: Mr Birnie tells a story, a pianist plays a tune containing the name to be deduced. The audience write down the names to complete the story. (Pianist plays: Jock o Hazeldean, Annie Laurie, Màiri's Wedding, Come Under Ma Plaidie, Stop Your Ticklin Jock, Jist a Wee Deoch an Doruis, The Silver Tassie, Kissin in the Dark, Haste Ye Back.) [See next track for answers.]

NEFA 1994.005.04    Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Answers to the quiz

S: Pianist plays the tunes again. CB sings a verse or two of "Kissin in the Dark".

NEFA 1994.005.05-6    Transcription
P: Gordon Easton
T: Fin the Heather Blooms on Mormond
FL: Oh there's bonnie banks o Lomond
S:
 Song by Alec Brown. Some tuning at start. [End of side A in middle of song.]

NEFA 1994.005.07    Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: About Alec Brown

NEFA 1994.005.08    
P: Gordon Easton and Grace ????
T: ????/ Corn Rigs/ Ha, Ha the Wooin o't

S: Fiddle and piano instrumental.

NEFA 1994.005.09    
P: Charles Birnie
T: Introducing Allan Sellar
 

NEFA 1994.005.10    Transcription
P: 
Alan Sellar
T: It Wisna His Wite
FL: It wisna his wite he wis buried sae late
S:
 

NEFA 1994.005.11    
P: Charles Birnie
T: Introducing Charlie Thompson

NEFA 1994.005.12    Transcription
P: 
Charlie Thompson
T: A Farmer's Dog
FL: A farmer's dog, he kept a
S:
 

NEFA 1994.005.13    Transcription
P: Charlie Thompson
T: The Kirk Soiree
FL: Oh fin first I cam tae this toon for tae stop
S:
 Harry Gordon recitation.

NEFA 1994.005.14    Transcription
P: Charlie Thompson
T: Maggie Ann
FL: O Maggie Ann, o Clachnabrochan
S:
 

NEFA 1994.005.15-16    Transcription
P: Charles Birnie
T: Buchan dialogue
FL: How would you translate the following
S:
 Followed by thanks and closing remarks.

NEFA 1994.005.17    Transcription
P: The Belly Band 
T: A Man's a Man for a' That
FL: Is there for honest poverty, that hings its head an a' that
S:

 

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