Sunday 8 March 2015

Ron Gonnella - Fiddle Gems



Ron Gonnella was without doubt a very fine fiddle player and his 1976 album Fiddle Gems is one of his best. The tune selection here is very interesting and includes tracks i had never heard before. Top Scottish fiddlers such as Duncan Wood and Gregor Borland have spoken of their admiration for Ron Gonnella;s skills and techniques.




01 Well May My True Love Arrive/Glenmorriston/Northern Racecourse
02 Rbel War Song/Belladrum House/The Favourite Dram
03 Well May Charlie Wear the Crown/Northern Meeting/Sprightly Minikin
04 Sitting In the Stern of a Boat
05 The Beauty of the North/Stranger in Place of the Worthies/Inauspicious Wedding Day
06 Good Wife, Admit the Wanderer/The Maid That Made the Bed to Me
07 The Fall of Foyers/The North Side of the Grampians/In Dispraise of Whisky
08 Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch/The Expert Dancer/The Merry Making
09 Huntly's Wedding Medley/General Gathering 1745/The Shepherdess/My Ain, Kind Deary
10 Hymn to the Saviour
11 My Wife Is Forever Storming At Me/The Hawthorn Tree of Cawdor/Come Lads, Now Be Ready
12 Caledonia's Wail for Niel Gow/Angus Fraser's Strathspey/Three Sheep's Shanks

link to the free album

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