Poetry Cafe 199: Scots in Canada
28.10.2024
Scots in Canada
Runrig: ‘Alba’ ‘Canadian Boat Song’ (1829) Longfellow: ‘Evangeline’ (1847) A Breton Dance Runrig: ‘The Mighty Atlantic’ William MacGibbon: ‘The Water is Wide’ (1762) John Somerville: ‘Uallach Na Mara’ John Somerville: ‘Seinn a’Phiob’ John Prebble: ‘The Clearances’ (1963) Lewis MacKinnon: ‘Splinters’ Lucille M. Campey: ‘After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773 – 1852’ (2004) ‘The Dark Island’ (trad.) Tom Devine: ‘To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland’s Global Diaspora, 1750 – 2010’ (2011) Alistair MacLeod: ‘Clearances’ Iain Peterson: ‘The Slopes of Ben Hiant’ John MacLean: ‘The Gloomy Forest’ (1819) ‘Leaving Kingairloch, Ardnamurchan’ (sung by Margaret Maclennan) Michael McDonald: ‘Fair is the Place’ (1775) Daimh: ‘Moidart to Mabou’ (Strathspeys) George Simson: ‘Coronach in the Backwoods’ (1859) ‘A Canadian Lament’ (bagpipe solo) John MacDonald: ‘A Gaelic Lament’ (1835) Alistair MacLeod: ‘The Road to Rankin’s Point’ (1976) ‘Patrick Og MacCrimmon’s Lament’ (played by Robert U. Brown) Alistair MacLeod: ‘No Great Mischief’ (extracts) Alasdair Macleod: ‘Cuir Culaibh Ri Asainte’ (‘Turning my Back on Assynt’) Joanna van Kool; ‘The Followers’ (of Norman MacLeod) Granville Bantock: ‘Celtic Symphony’ (2nd movement: Allegro con fuoco) (1940) Thomas Crawley: ‘Stephen Wright’ (1827) Margaret Atwood: ‘Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer’ Robert Louis Stevenson: ‘The Amateur Emigrant’ (1895) Marjory Harper: ‘The Great Scottish Exodus’ Alice Munro: ‘The Wilds of Morris Township’ (from ‘The View from Castle Rock’, 2006) Alistair MacLeod: ‘The Boat’ (1968) John McGahern, on Alistair MacLeod’s ‘Island’ anthology (2001) J. Watson Nicol: ‘Lochaber No More’ Thomas Faed: ‘The Last of the Clan’ (1865) and ‘Oh Why Left I My Hame?’ Walter Scott: ‘The Lay of the Last Minstrel’ (1805) Catriona Parsons: ‘Honour’ Granville Bantock: ‘A Hebridean Symphony’ (1st movement)
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