Big Orkney Song Project
Orkney, UK
Folk / Scottish Traditional / Local
The New Year Song - Big Orkney Song Project
Band Bio: The Big Orkney Song Project is a two year project set up to collect, catalogue and record Orkney songs and run by Orkney Singers. We will be creating the Big Orkney Song Collection, which everyone...
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Band Bio: The Big Orkney Song Project is a two year project set up to collect, catalogue and record Orkney songs and run by Orkney Singers. We will be creating the Big Orkney Song Collection, which everyone can have free access to through the Orkney Library and Archive. Our hope is to reinvigorate a song tradition in Orkney and preserve our rich and diverse song heritage.
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Members: Aimee Leonard, Sarah Jane Gibbon and Emily Turton are Workshop Leader/Song Developer, History/Archive Researcher & Musical Administrator/Vocal Coach
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1. The New Year Song
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2. Leaving Stronsay
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3. Oh Dear Oh
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4. Eday Song
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5. The Rousay Lullaby
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6. The dreadful end of Marianna for sorcery
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7. Elwick Bay
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8. The Hamars o' Syradale
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9. The Bride's Lament
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10. I'll Hang my Harp on a Willow Tree
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11. The Nobleman's Wedding/The Unconstant Lover
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12. An Orcadian Cradle Song
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13. Hurrah for the Orkneys
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14. Greenland Whaling Fishery
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15. The Orcadian Boatman's Song
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16. Isle of Erin
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17. Hoy's Dark and Lofty Isle
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