"Must Play" songs at a Scottish event

**sailortats** · 24th October 12, 05:52 AM

One that I have always liked is "The Skye Boat Song". It is frequently played at most scottish events sooner or later.

**unclevenus** · 24th October 12, 05:59 AM

Have it, sailortats. Got a few downloaded versions. My dilemma with that one and a few.. is which is the best? Have a favorite rendition?

**sailortats** · 24th October 12, 06:55 AM

No, I haven't a favorite, but then I have never heard a version of it that I didn't like.

**guardsman** · 24th October 12, 07:20 AM

Kenneth McKellar rendition of Skye Boat Song or the Corries are mine, Go on youtube EVIL SCOTSMAN really funny, Midgeez,Te Kirriemuir Ball, funny,bawdy or fun, everything you want.Have a great evening.

**O'Callaghan** · 24th October 12, 07:08 PM

Let me be the first to lower the tone and suggest one of my favourites, I Belong To Glasgow, by WIll Fyffe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oww8HXLsxDw

He was actually from Dundee, and met his end falling out of a hotel window, perhaps "under the affluence of incohol"?

**OC Richard** · 24th October 12, 08:13 PM

Ha! I played at a funeral today, and the Irish-American family asked me to play Danny Boy, When Irish Eyes, and Toora Loora... not a single song Irish, and Toora Loora is only a rehash/arrangement of Irish Eyes. But tradition will surface if it can! and I played Roisin Dubh and A Spailpin a Ruin for incidental music.

I do the same when playing at Scottish events, sprinking Scots Gaelic songs in when possible (Faghail Liosmor, Chi Mi na Morbheanna, Mo Run Gael Dileas, etc).