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Calum Sgaire
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Very Celtic music played by a dedicated Band. Traditional songs and tunes plus original compositions combining their own multinational backgrounds whith the Cel
Band members: Heidi Sigfalk (violin, viola, guitar, voice), Stef Sigfalk (guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, concertina, voice), Andreas Aeppli (bodhran, percussion, voice), Brendan Wade (uillean pipes, whistles, guitar, voice).
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Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
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#157 in subgenre Peak #1
Charts
Peak #8
Author
trad.
Rights
Bow Triplets
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February 03, 2010
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MP3 4.7 MB • 192 kbps • 3:27
Story behind the song
A hauntingly beautiful traditional Gaelic song that emanates from the Hebrides in Scotland. The song tells the story in Scottish Gaelic of a fisherman on the Hebridean Isle of Lewis whose true love, Mairead, is married to a local farmer because her parents disapproved of Calum. When Mairead died giving birth to her first child (by the farmer), Calum was so distraught he left the place forever. It was made known to a wider audience through a recording by The Bothy Band. The lead vocals here are sung by Brendan Wade.
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Paul Mcilwaine
Mar 03, 2013
Wonderful stuff
ALEXIS PATRICK
Apr 18, 2011
Perfectly beautiful, played and sung from the heart!!!