0:00:07 > 0:00:11Welcome to Celtic Connections 2016
0:00:11 > 0:00:13and some more highlights from our coverage
0:00:13 > 0:00:15of this diverse musical feast.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19Coming up tonight, Julie Fowlis.
0:00:21 > 0:00:24American singer-songwriter Rhiannon Giddens.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28Kris Drever.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33Teddy Thompson and Kelly Jones.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Breton Blend.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43And Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49But first, a great Scottish band, Daimh.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:22 > 0:03:24Our starting point for writing the songs
0:03:24 > 0:03:26was probably the Everly Brothers.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Just as a reference point, because we wanted a sort of girl and boy
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Everly Brothers, if you will.
0:03:31 > 0:03:34But as far as the song writing,
0:03:34 > 0:03:36we were going for that style of, you know,
0:03:36 > 0:03:38what was considered a pop song,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41you know, really short and to the point and clever and concise.
0:03:48 > 0:03:53# No lying, no fighting No me versus you
0:03:53 > 0:03:56# The make-ups, the break-ups
0:03:56 > 0:03:59# We know how to do
0:03:59 > 0:04:06# We swore up and down that this time we were through
0:04:06 > 0:04:11# I thought that we said goodbye
0:04:12 > 0:04:15# The leaving, the grieving
0:04:15 > 0:04:17# The new paramours
0:04:17 > 0:04:20# The constant comparing
0:04:20 > 0:04:23# And soon we'd get bored
0:04:23 > 0:04:30# The certain nostalgia for the Hundred Years' War
0:04:30 > 0:04:36# I thought that we said goodbye
0:04:37 > 0:04:43# Goodbye is nothing but a run-of-the-mill
0:04:43 > 0:04:49# Goodbye, a temporary end
0:04:49 > 0:04:54# Goodbye, I know it won't be long until
0:04:54 > 0:05:02# We're saying hello again
0:05:12 > 0:05:18# Goodbye, it's nothing but a run-of-the-mill
0:05:18 > 0:05:24# Goodbye, a temporary end
0:05:24 > 0:05:29# Goodbye, I know it won't be long until
0:05:29 > 0:05:35# We're saying hello again
0:05:35 > 0:05:41# The force of a habit that's hard to resist
0:05:41 > 0:05:46# The fatal mistake of the one little kiss
0:05:46 > 0:05:53# It's back on the tightrope across the abyss
0:05:53 > 0:05:59# I thought that we said goodbye
0:05:59 > 0:06:06# Didn't we say goodbye? #
0:06:08 > 0:06:11CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:30# Oladh neo na oladh cach i
0:06:30 > 0:06:33# Biodh i lan aig ceann a' bhuird
0:06:33 > 0:06:37# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:06:37 > 0:06:41# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:06:41 > 0:06:46# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:06:46 > 0:06:49# Chunnacas bat' air an fhairge
0:06:49 > 0:06:54# 'S an laimh dhearg air an stiuir
0:06:54 > 0:06:57# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:06:57 > 0:07:01# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:07:01 > 0:07:06# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:07:06 > 0:07:09# Chunnaic mi dol seach' an caol i
0:07:09 > 0:07:13# 'S badan fraoich 's an t-slait shiuil
0:07:13 > 0:07:17# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:07:17 > 0:07:21# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:07:21 > 0:07:26# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:07:32 > 0:07:35# Fhir a chunnaic air an t-sail i
0:07:35 > 0:07:39# Beannaich an long bhan 's a criudh'
0:07:39 > 0:07:43# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:07:43 > 0:07:47# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:07:47 > 0:07:51# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:07:51 > 0:07:55# Beannaich a cruinn ard 's a h-acfhuinn
0:07:55 > 0:07:59# A cuid acraichean 's a siuil
0:07:59 > 0:08:03# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:08:03 > 0:08:07# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:08:07 > 0:08:13# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:08:38 > 0:08:42# Ged a tha mi 'n seo an Colla
0:08:42 > 0:08:46# B' e mo thoil a dhol a Rum
0:08:46 > 0:08:50# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:08:50 > 0:08:54# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:08:54 > 0:08:58# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:08:58 > 0:09:02# Agus as a sin a dh' Uibhist
0:09:02 > 0:09:06# Nan d' fhuair mi mo ghuidhe leam
0:09:06 > 0:09:10# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:09:10 > 0:09:14# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:09:14 > 0:09:18# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:09:18 > 0:09:22# Deoch slainte le fear an tuir
0:09:22 > 0:09:26# Biodh an deoch seo 'n laimh mo ruin
0:09:31 > 0:09:33# Whoa-ooh. #
0:10:02 > 0:10:05APPLAUSE
0:10:08 > 0:10:10Come Love Come is a song that I wrote
0:10:10 > 0:10:13based on reading a lot of slave narratives.
0:10:13 > 0:10:16Um, that is a time period that's really interested me
0:10:16 > 0:10:21because I play music from that time period and of course it interests me
0:10:21 > 0:10:24because of my ancestors and, you know, where I come from,
0:10:24 > 0:10:27but also because it's such a hidden subject in the States.
0:10:27 > 0:10:30You know, the realities, the everyday realities
0:10:30 > 0:10:31of what slavery was like,
0:10:31 > 0:10:34and so reading these personal histories of people
0:10:34 > 0:10:37kind of blew me away and then the only thing I could do, really,
0:10:37 > 0:10:38was to write a song about it.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:10:49 > 0:10:52# The way is long and hard, I know
0:10:52 > 0:10:55# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:10:55 > 0:10:59# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:11:12 > 0:11:19# When I was four, my loving mam was cornered by the boss's man
0:11:19 > 0:11:22# She turned her head and got struck down
0:11:22 > 0:11:26# They buried her in the cold, cold ground
0:11:26 > 0:11:29# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:11:29 > 0:11:32# The way is long and hard, I know
0:11:32 > 0:11:36# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:11:36 > 0:11:39# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# When I was 12, my father dear
0:11:49 > 0:11:52# Was strong of arm and free of fear
0:11:52 > 0:11:56# Until the day he raised his hand
0:11:56 > 0:11:59# Then he was sold to Alabam'
0:11:59 > 0:12:02# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:12:02 > 0:12:06# The way is long and hard, I know
0:12:06 > 0:12:09# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:12:09 > 0:12:13# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:12:26 > 0:12:29# When I was 16, found my bloom
0:12:29 > 0:12:32# Found my man, we jumped the broom
0:12:32 > 0:12:35# We pledged each other the rest of our lives
0:12:35 > 0:12:39# And on Saturday nights We were man and wife
0:12:39 > 0:12:42# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:12:42 > 0:12:45# The way is long and hard, I know
0:12:45 > 0:12:49# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:12:49 > 0:12:52# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:13:05 > 0:13:08# When I was 18, bugles called
0:13:08 > 0:13:12# And boys in bloom came o'er the wall
0:13:12 > 0:13:15# I took my chance and followed free
0:13:15 > 0:13:18# They led the way to Tennessee
0:13:18 > 0:13:21# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:13:21 > 0:13:24# The way is long and hard, I know
0:13:24 > 0:13:28# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:13:28 > 0:13:31# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:13:45 > 0:13:48# Now here I sit in a tiny shack
0:13:48 > 0:13:51# With 13 others at my back
0:13:51 > 0:13:54# I've sent you word so all I can do
0:13:54 > 0:13:58# Is wait and wait and wait and wait
0:13:58 > 0:14:03# And wa-a-a-ait
0:14:03 > 0:14:07# And wait for you
0:14:07 > 0:14:11# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:14:11 > 0:14:14# The way is long and hard, I know
0:14:14 > 0:14:17# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:14:17 > 0:14:21# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:14:21 > 0:14:24# Come, love, come The road lies low
0:14:24 > 0:14:27# The way is long and hard, I know
0:14:27 > 0:14:30# Come, love, come The road lies free
0:14:30 > 0:14:39# I wait for you in Tennessee
0:14:41 > 0:14:44# Oh, oh-whoa-whoa-oh
0:14:44 > 0:14:46# Oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-ohhh
0:14:46 > 0:14:51# Oh-oh-whoa-whoa-oh
0:14:51 > 0:14:56# Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-oh-ohh-ohhh
0:14:56 > 0:15:00# Oh-oh-ohh-oh-oh
0:15:00 > 0:15:03# I'll wait for you
0:15:03 > 0:15:07# I'll wait for you
0:15:07 > 0:15:11# I'll wait for you
0:15:11 > 0:15:14# I'll wait for you. #
0:15:14 > 0:15:17CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Some people give me the cassette of Celtic music, from Ireland,
0:15:24 > 0:15:28from...Scotland, and I was listening, I say,
0:15:28 > 0:15:33"Wow, this is so bizarre because if I take out the voices,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36"I can put my voice on the top of these melodies."
0:15:36 > 0:15:40And the instruments, I discovered later on that these instruments
0:15:40 > 0:15:43were very connected to African instruments.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45For example, we have the kora and the harp.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48When I hear the people in Ireland playing the bodhran
0:15:48 > 0:15:50and I hear the talking drum, it's all...
0:15:50 > 0:15:52The connection is there,
0:15:52 > 0:15:57so maybe we did live here or maybe you guys lived in Africa.
0:16:49 > 0:16:55HE SINGS IN OWN LANGUAGE
0:21:39 > 0:21:42MUSIC ENDS
0:21:42 > 0:21:45CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:21:45 > 0:21:47Thank you.
0:22:13 > 0:22:16# If a' the blood shed at thy Tron
0:22:16 > 0:22:19# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:22:20 > 0:22:25# If a' the blood shed at thy Tron were shed into a river
0:22:25 > 0:22:28# It would ca' the mills of Bonnington
0:22:28 > 0:22:30# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:22:30 > 0:22:33# It would ca' the mills of Bonnington
0:22:33 > 0:22:36# Forever and forever
0:22:40 > 0:22:42# If a' the tears that thou hast grat
0:22:42 > 0:22:45# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:22:46 > 0:22:48# If a' the tears that thou hast grat
0:22:48 > 0:22:52# Were shed into the sea
0:22:52 > 0:22:54# Where would you find an Ararat?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:22:57 > 0:22:59# Where would you find an Ararat?
0:22:59 > 0:23:03# From that fell flood to flee
0:23:17 > 0:23:20# If all the psalms sung in thy kirks
0:23:20 > 0:23:22# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:23:24 > 0:23:26# If all the psalms sung in thy kirks
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# Were gathered in a wynd
0:23:29 > 0:23:32# They'd shaw the tops of Roslin's birks
0:23:32 > 0:23:34# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:23:34 > 0:23:37# They'd shaw the tops of Roslin's birks
0:23:37 > 0:23:40# Till time, out of mind
0:24:05 > 0:24:08# If a' the broken hearts o' thee
0:24:08 > 0:24:10# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:24:12 > 0:24:15# If a' the broken hearts o' thee
0:24:15 > 0:24:17# Were heaped in a howe
0:24:17 > 0:24:20# There would be neither land nor sea
0:24:20 > 0:24:23# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:24:23 > 0:24:25# There would be neither land nor sea
0:24:25 > 0:24:28# But yon rede brae and thou
0:24:28 > 0:24:31# There would be neither land nor sea
0:24:31 > 0:24:33# Edinburgh, Edinburgh
0:24:33 > 0:24:39# There would be neither land nor sea, but yon rede brae and thou
0:24:39 > 0:24:43# Oh-oh-oh... #
0:25:02 > 0:25:05CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:25:05 > 0:25:06Thank you.
0:28:47 > 0:28:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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