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Posted: **Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:11 am**

A nice rendition of "Lark in the Morning" on the uilleann pipes/guitar.

Earl Scruggs RIP gets into it with the Chieftains and "Sally Goodin".

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:05 am**

Bretagne (Britanny)

Traditional Song

"Bagad" (bagpipe band) from Finisterre (Interceltic Festival 2014)

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2015 6:47 am**

I like this folk music you have posted Gaius, I especially like bag-pipes, I had never heard the uilleann pipes before, very nice. I hope I have more time to listen to some of the concerts you posted but these folk songs are short and sweet.

Bag-pipes are excellent. I just noticed, a griffin like that is on my family crest.

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:46 am**

Glad you like it, Joe.
Some folk dispute between the bagpipe and uilleann pipe, which is the best. But they just have different functions. The bagpipe is principally an instrument of war (the English banned them in Scotland because of this), whereas the uilleann is a social music instrument.

My family crest has a pig (LOL -- actually a charging wild boar) and the motto is "Dum Spiro, Spero" (While I Breathe, I Hope) which is also the motto I believe in South Carolina, USA.
All Celts are entitled to a family/clan crest and our people could check on this.

Another trad. Breton song "Tri Martolod" (Three Sailors)
"Dan in his ships" ...

Posted: **Wed Jul 08, 2015 8:01 am**

Ah yes, I like Arany Zoltan very much. I hadn't heard that one before though, I have perused many of his songs on youtube.

Posted: **Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:46 am**

Cymru (Wales)
"The Land of Song".

Anthem

"Gwahoddiad"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwahoddiad

"Blaenwern"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaenwern

Posted: **Fri Jul 10, 2015 8:06 am**

Alba (Scotland)

"O Flower of Scotland, when will we see your likes again .... ? "
A Lament for the fallen sons of Scotland sent to wars.

Sword Dance

Extract from the Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

" .... we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes, but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence they came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today ... "