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The Rhymer's March / MacKinnon's Brook

from The Road to Kennacraig by Karen Marshalsay

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Another tune from my Thomas the Rhymer piece, this is what I imagined him to be playing as he sat on the Huntly bank watching the Queen of Elfland approaching. The strathspey I learned from students at a session when I was teaching at the National Centre of Excellence in Traditional Music at Plockton. This features all three of Scotland’s harps, the wire strings of the Highlands and Gaelic culture, the modern gut-strung harp with semitone levers, and the bray harp of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, with the buzzing brays (wooden pins that touch the base of each string) used to amplify the sound and cut across the dance floor in the great halls

wire-strung clarsach, gut-strung harp, bray harp

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from The Road to Kennacraig, released July 15, 2019
Comp. Karen Marshalsay PRS/MCPS / Trad. Arr. Karen Marshalsay PRS/MCPS

Produced by Robin Morton at
Temple Records Studio, Midlothian
Engineers: Robin Morton & Ewan MacGregor

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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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