The Road to Kennacraig, by Karen Marshalsay

The Road to Kennacraig

by Karen Marshalsay

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1.	The Road to Kennacraig 04:38	info	buy track
2.	St Fillan's / The Rhymer's Reel 04:14	info	buy track
3.	The Journeying Jig 03:57	info	buy track
4.	Jane Pickeringe's Lilt / Emma 02:11	info	buy track
5.	Ülle’s Reel 02:17	info	buy track
6.	Ellen's Dreams / PM Donald MacLean of Lewis 04:08	info	buy track
7.	Carrill's Lament 02:04	info	buy track
8.	Bert Mackenzie's 70th Birthday Waltz / Isabel Gow's Welcome to Edinburgh 03:21	info	buy track
9.	The Battle of the Bridge of Perth 05:55	info	buy track
10.	Helen's Farewell 02:59	info	buy track
11.	Dr Karen McAulay of the Books 03:02	info	buy track
12.	The Rhymer's March / MacKinnon's Brook 02:56	info	buy track

about

Karen Marshalsay plays all three Scottish harps - gut-strung, wire-strung and the buzzing, sitar-like bray harp. Deeply influenced by the piping tradition and particularly pibroch, Karen has honed her style through playing with Allan MacDonald of the famous Glenuig piping family, and in Boys of the Lough founder Cathal McConnell’s trio.
Currently wire harp tutor at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Karen taught at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music at Plockton for seven years. She has performed and conducted workshops at many major festivals worldwide, and has worked with African and Paraguayan musicians on multi-cultural projects, including Yatra for the Edinburgh Mela. In 2018 she guested with the Russian String Orchestra during the Edinburgh Festival playing her own compositions. She has published many of these along her arrangements of traditional tunes in a series of books.
This first solo album shows Karen is a highly accomplished player of traditional music and a fine composer of tunes in a living tradition.

“one of the leading contemporary performers on the instrument” - The Scotsman

THANKS to
Robin Morton for his insight and help in creating this album; Alison Kinnaird for inspiration and tunes over the years, and for encouragement and help on this project; Ewan MacGregor; Allan MacDonald, Cathal McConnell, Kathryn Nicoll & all the musicians I’ve learned from and played with over the years; everyone at Ardival Harps and Starfish Designs; Kate O’Sullivan; my friends & family; and especially my husband Rab for all his support and encouragement.

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released July 15, 2019

Karen plays an Ardival Rose wire-strung clarsach and Urquhart bray harp, Jack Yule’s Raven 001 gut-strung harp, and a Jon Swayne boxwood D whistle.

Produced by Robin Morton at
Temple Records Studio, Midlothian
Engineers: Robin Morton & Ewan MacGregor
Photography: Kate O’Sullivan
Design & Layout: John Slavin at Designfolk

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Karen Marshalsay Edinburgh, UK

Playing all three Scottish harps –gut & wire-strung, and the sitar-like Baroque bray harp, and deeply influenced by pipe music, Karen is a highly accomplished player of traditional music and a fine composer of tunes in a living tradition.

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