A first solo album from Karen Marshalsay, a highly accomplished player of all the three Scottish harps. Karen features the warm sounding modern gut-strung levered harp, the clear ringing wire-strung clarsach of the Highlands and Gaelic culture and the bray harp from the Renaissance and Baroque period with it's sitar-like buzz. She also plays whistle on one track, across the album. 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.
Tracks:
1. The Road To Kennacraig
2. St Fillan's / The Rhymer's Reel
3. The Journeying Jig
4. Jane Pickeringe's Lilt / Emma
5. Ulle's Reel
6. Ellen's Dreams / PM Donald MacLean Of Lewis
7. Carrill's Lament
8. Bert Mackenzie's 70th Birthday Waltz / Isabel Gow's Welcome To Edinburgh
9. The Battle Of THe Bridge Of Perth
10. Helen's Farewell
11. Dr Karen McAulay Of The Books
12. The Rhymer's March / MacKinnon's Brook
