The Prince’s Welcome To Inverness reel

Is this not just a version of The Noon Lassies? https://thesession.org/tunes/1729

It’s not a Strathspey either. Hopefully rambler gary will tell us where he learned the tune, and any other relevant info before very long.

I got it from this recording https://thesession.org/recordings/3858

It doesn’t match a tune with the same name in the Robert Petrie collection:

http://www.heallan.com/petrie/49.pdf

And it is a version of The Noon Lasses.

To my ears it’s related to an old Scots tune called “Hoch Hey Johnny Lad”, also found as “The Lasses of the Ferry” and “The Lads of Saltcoats”. Lunasa recorded it as “Jerry O’Sullivan’s” (https://thesession.org/tunes/2635). Admittedly, it’s quite far removed, but I hear the common root in both.

“The Lasses of the Ferry”

I would steer clear of them if you visited Inverness. 😛