This tune was composed by the late Scottish fiddler Donald Riddell. Old Blind Dogs play it on their CD "Gab O’ Mey" in a set with Lochanside and it is also featured on a tribute CD titled "A Highland Fiddler" by Duncan Chisholm / Iain MacFarlane / Bruce MacGregor (which interestingly also features two members of OBD - Jonny Hardie and Rory Campbell).
Re: Morag Haig-Thomas
I’ve sometimes seen this tune described as a "slow march" by some. So, I thought I’d check for myself.
In Donald Riddell’s Clunes Collection, it is definitely listed as a strathspey,
So that’s the way it will stay! 🙂
Incidentally, Morag Haig-Thomas is a fine player in her own right and a leading member of The Inverness Fiddlers.
Re: Morag Haig-Thomas
Some of the more "dotty/snappy" marches are difficult to distinguish from strathspeys, or do I mean vice versa?
Good tune, anyway!
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