0:00:12 > 0:00:14Fair faa ye from Brownlow House.
0:00:14 > 0:00:18This is the final programme in a series that has, at its heart,
0:00:18 > 0:00:20the music of the Ulster-Scots
0:00:20 > 0:00:22and the wonderful musicians who perform it.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24And playing for us tonight are pipers
0:00:24 > 0:00:26Alan MacPherson and Ross Hume...
0:00:30 > 0:00:31..Ballylone Flute Band...
0:00:36 > 0:00:39And the drum corps from the Pride of Ballinran from Kilkeel.
0:00:41 > 0:00:44But first up for us tonight, it's the Battlefield Band.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:44 > 0:02:46Well, it's great to have the Battlefield Band
0:02:46 > 0:02:48here in Brownlow House, you're very welcome.
0:02:48 > 0:02:49- ALL:- Thanks very much.
0:02:49 > 0:02:52You know, my aunt is really jealous that she's not here today
0:02:52 > 0:02:55because she has listened to the Battlefield Band, I think,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58since its inception, so I know that there are a lot of fans out there
0:02:58 > 0:03:02in Northern Ireland and it's been around since 1969, you say?
0:03:02 > 0:03:06- Yeah, the band is as old as I am, so...- Right.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10In Scotland, back in the late '60s, as here and in America,
0:03:10 > 0:03:13there was a lot of pop music and people weren't really...
0:03:15 > 0:03:18..in touch with their own culture, they were kind of embarrassed
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- of recorded music or whatever type of music it was...- Right.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23..it was kind of dying out,
0:03:23 > 0:03:27so the Battlefield Band was one of the first bands in Scotland.
0:03:27 > 0:03:30It was a big part of a revival of the music and a culture...
0:03:30 > 0:03:33Yeah, and in terms of the Battlefield Band, you know,
0:03:33 > 0:03:37I suppose its members have come from all over the UK and in Ireland
0:03:37 > 0:03:40throughout the years and the current line-up,
0:03:40 > 0:03:41we have someone from Londonderry,
0:03:41 > 0:03:44someone from Scotland, someone from Donegal.
0:03:44 > 0:03:46Do you get to play here often these days?
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Um, not as often as we would like.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51We've done a few gigs over the past few years,
0:03:51 > 0:03:53- but there's a great pipe band tradition here, so...- Right.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56..people kind of, in pipe bands, tend to know us through that,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- but we would certainly like to come over here more.- Yeah.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01- It would save me a lot of time flying. - ALL LAUGH
0:04:13 > 0:04:15# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:16 > 0:04:19# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:19 > 0:04:23# Stay other side of town Honey, I won't be around
0:04:23 > 0:04:25# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:27 > 0:04:31# It's a long way from here to over yonder
0:04:31 > 0:04:34# My feet, they're getting mighty sore
0:04:34 > 0:04:38# I'm not coming back You've made my mind to wander
0:04:38 > 0:04:41# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:41 > 0:04:44# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:44 > 0:04:47# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:04:47 > 0:04:51# Stay other side of town Honey, I won't be around
0:04:51 > 0:04:53# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:09 > 0:05:12# Well, don't come lookin' for me, baby
0:05:12 > 0:05:15# And don't come knockin' on my door
0:05:15 > 0:05:19# I thought you were worth it once but I was crazy
0:05:19 > 0:05:22# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:22 > 0:05:25# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:25 > 0:05:28# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:28 > 0:05:32# Stay other side of town Honey, I won't be around
0:05:32 > 0:05:35# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:50 > 0:05:52# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:53 > 0:05:56# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:05:56 > 0:06:00# Stay other side of town Honey, I won't be around
0:06:00 > 0:06:03# My walking shoes don't fit me any more
0:06:03 > 0:06:08# Stay other side of town Honey, I won't be around. #
0:06:12 > 0:06:14CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:06:18 > 0:06:21We've moved into the ballroom at Brownlow House
0:06:21 > 0:06:23because there's absolutely no chance
0:06:23 > 0:06:26that these folk will fit on our stage.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30This is Ballylone Concert Flute Band and with me is Bobby and Gillian.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Now, just tell me a little bit more about the band.
0:06:33 > 0:06:36Ballylone Flute Band was founded in 1908
0:06:36 > 0:06:39as a marching band in the townland of Ballylone,
0:06:39 > 0:06:41just outside Ballynahinch,
0:06:41 > 0:06:43and while we still do our parades,
0:06:43 > 0:06:45the band has developed over many years
0:06:45 > 0:06:50into one of the finest concert and contest bands in the province.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Some of the original families in our band are still here.
0:06:54 > 0:06:57I notice you've got a medal on, tell us a wee bit more about that.
0:06:57 > 0:06:59- Well, that's the 50-year medal, so...- Ah!
0:06:59 > 0:07:02- I think I started when I was three! - LAUGHTER
0:07:03 > 0:07:05Did I hear correctly that you're world champions?
0:07:05 > 0:07:07That's correct, yes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09- World champions, Nicola, for the fifth time this year.- Wow!
0:07:09 > 0:07:14Yeah. Um, we won it way back in '02 for the first time
0:07:14 > 0:07:16and we retained it this year.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19You're going to play for us now, you're playing two pieces,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22one of which has an Ulster-Scots connection.
0:07:22 > 0:07:23Gillian...
0:07:23 > 0:07:26Well, the second piece is the hoedown from Aaron Copland's
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Rodeo suite and the Ulster-Scots brought the fiddle playing
0:07:30 > 0:07:32to the Appalachian Mountains,
0:07:32 > 0:07:36and this particular movement of the suite is based on Mrs McLeod's Reel,
0:07:36 > 0:07:39which is very synonymous with the Ulster-Scots.
0:10:42 > 0:10:46# A sailor and his true love lay doon tae mak their moan
0:10:46 > 0:10:50# When in came ain o their countrymen
0:10:50 > 0:10:52# Sayin', rise up, my bonny lassie
0:10:52 > 0:10:55# Mak haste and come awa'
0:10:55 > 0:10:58# There's a vessel lying bound for Caledonia
0:10:59 > 0:11:01# Oh, said the sailor
0:11:01 > 0:11:03# Are ye willing for tae pay
0:11:03 > 0:11:07# 500 guineas afore on board ye gay?
0:11:07 > 0:11:12# I'll pay them plack and farthing afore on board I go
0:11:12 > 0:11:16# If ye tak me tae my bonny Caledonia
0:11:16 > 0:11:18# Oh, said the sailor
0:11:18 > 0:11:20# Her money we will tak
0:11:20 > 0:11:24# And when we're on the sea we'll throw her over deck
0:11:24 > 0:11:29# Or sell her for a slave lang or ere she win awa'
0:11:29 > 0:11:33# She'll never see her bonny Caledonia
0:11:33 > 0:11:35# Well, said the captain
0:11:35 > 0:11:37# Well, that'll never do!
0:11:37 > 0:11:41# For there are nae slaves sold intae oor country noo
0:11:41 > 0:11:46# They'd hang us ane and a' They would hang us, every man
0:11:46 > 0:11:50# If we sold her for a slave to Caledonia
0:11:51 > 0:11:52# Well, said the sailor
0:11:52 > 0:11:54# She's lying doon below
0:11:54 > 0:11:59# She's bound hand and foot Ready overboard to throw
0:11:59 > 0:12:03# She's bound hand and foot Ready overboard to throw
0:12:03 > 0:12:07# She'll never see her bonny Caledonia
0:12:27 > 0:12:30# Now the captain away tae the fair maid he has gane
0:12:30 > 0:12:35# Says, what is the reason ye're lying here sae lang?
0:12:35 > 0:12:39# An' what is the reason that ye're lying here at all?
0:12:39 > 0:12:44# For you've paid your passage dear tae Caledonia
0:12:44 > 0:12:45# Oh, said the lassie
0:12:45 > 0:12:47# Oh, woe is me
0:12:47 > 0:12:52# That ever I was born sic hardships for tae see
0:12:52 > 0:12:56# For the sailor's got a lassie he likes better far than me
0:12:56 > 0:13:00# And it causes me to weep for Caledonia
0:13:00 > 0:13:05# So the captain away to the sailor he has gane
0:13:05 > 0:13:09# He's ta'en him by the neck and him overboard has thrown
0:13:09 > 0:13:13# Sayin', tak this cup o water though the liquor be but sma'
0:13:13 > 0:13:17# And drink your lassie's health tae Caledonia
0:13:26 > 0:13:30# They've sailed east and they've sailed west
0:13:30 > 0:13:34# Until they reached the land that they a' loved the best
0:13:34 > 0:13:38# For the winds they did roar and the seas they did beat
0:13:38 > 0:13:43# And they've all arrived safe to Caledonia
0:13:45 > 0:13:49# They hadna been there but three quarters o' a year
0:13:49 > 0:13:53# When in silks and satins he's made her for tae wear
0:13:53 > 0:13:58# When in fine silks and satins he's made her for tae go
0:13:58 > 0:14:02# Noo she's the captain's wife in Caledonia
0:14:02 > 0:14:06# Noo she's the captain's wife in Caledonia. #
0:14:27 > 0:14:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:14:36 > 0:14:38So, Alan and Ross, welcome to Brownlow House.
0:14:38 > 0:14:39You're both local lads -
0:14:39 > 0:14:43Alan, you're from Cullybackey and, Ross, you're from Antrim.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45You've been playing the bagpipes a long time.
0:14:45 > 0:14:47I've been playing the pipes since I was nine years old.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50My great-grandfather actually piped and members of my family
0:14:50 > 0:14:51have played in accordion bands,
0:14:51 > 0:14:55but somewhere along the line the piping's come out again in myself.
0:14:55 > 0:14:56What about you, Ross?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Yeah, I started when I was about ten years old as well and,
0:14:58 > 0:15:01unlike Alan, I don't have any family connections in piping, I just kind
0:15:01 > 0:15:04of heard them one day and thought that I wanted to learn them, so...
0:15:04 > 0:15:06So, what bands do you play in? Alan?
0:15:06 > 0:15:08I've just been playing for the past two years
0:15:08 > 0:15:11in a band from Dublin called St Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12And what about you, Ross?
0:15:12 > 0:15:15I've played for the last four years in Field Marshal Montgomery from Lisburn.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17So you'll be playing for us tonight,
0:15:17 > 0:15:20but it's not with the Highland pipes, it's actually with the Lowland pipes.
0:15:20 > 0:15:21What's the difference in the two?
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Well, it's the Scottish Lowland pipes and they're a softer,
0:15:24 > 0:15:25they've a more mellow tone to them.
0:15:25 > 0:15:29You can fit them in with guitars and fiddles to good effect.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32The fingerwork and, like, the technique on the chanter is exactly the same,
0:15:32 > 0:15:34but instead of blowing into them, you're going to be...
0:15:34 > 0:15:37pumping the air with the bellows with your other arm, so it kind of
0:15:37 > 0:15:40just takes you a while to get used to kind of re-coordinating yourself again.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43So once you get used to that, you're flying.
0:19:56 > 0:19:58CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Up next here at Brownlow,
0:21:29 > 0:21:33we have a Burns song and the singer is sitting right beside me.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35So, you're going to interview me now?
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Well, I don't think they'd ask me to sing now!
0:21:37 > 0:21:39- EILIDH LAUGHS - I'm not very good.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Well, this song that I'm singing tonight
0:21:41 > 0:21:44is a song called Ye Banks And Braes O' Bonnie Doon
0:21:44 > 0:21:47and it's a song by Robbie Burns and my grandmother used to sing it,
0:21:47 > 0:21:50although, to be honest, I never heard her sing it myself,
0:21:50 > 0:21:52but my dad assures me that that was the case,
0:21:52 > 0:21:56and it's a gorgeous melody and a really lovely lyric
0:21:56 > 0:21:58all about love and heartbreak.
0:22:01 > 0:22:09# Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon
0:22:09 > 0:22:12# How can ye bloom
0:22:12 > 0:22:17# Sae fresh and fair
0:22:18 > 0:22:22# How can ye chant
0:22:22 > 0:22:26# Ye little birds
0:22:26 > 0:22:34# And I sae weary, fu' o' care!
0:22:34 > 0:22:38# Ye'll break my heart
0:22:38 > 0:22:42# Ye warbling birds
0:22:42 > 0:22:45# That wantons thro'
0:22:45 > 0:22:51# The flowering thorn
0:22:51 > 0:22:56# Ye mind me o'
0:22:56 > 0:23:00# Departed joys
0:23:00 > 0:23:04# Departed never
0:23:04 > 0:23:09# To return
0:23:13 > 0:23:17# Oft have I rov'd
0:23:17 > 0:23:21# By bonnie Doon
0:23:21 > 0:23:25# To see the rose
0:23:25 > 0:23:30# And woodbine twine
0:23:30 > 0:23:35# And ilka bird
0:23:35 > 0:23:39# Sang o' its love
0:23:39 > 0:23:46# And fondly sae did I o' mine
0:23:46 > 0:23:51# Wi' lightsome heart
0:23:51 > 0:23:54# I pu'd a rose
0:23:54 > 0:23:58# Fu' sweet upon
0:23:58 > 0:24:04# Its thorny tree
0:24:04 > 0:24:09# But my false lover
0:24:09 > 0:24:12# Stole my rose
0:24:12 > 0:24:20# But ah! He left the thorn wi' me
0:24:20 > 0:24:24# Wi' lightsome heart
0:24:24 > 0:24:28# I pu'd a rose
0:24:28 > 0:24:32# Fu' sweet upon
0:24:32 > 0:24:36# Its thorny tree
0:24:37 > 0:24:42# But my false lover
0:24:42 > 0:24:46# Stole my rose
0:24:46 > 0:24:57# But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. #
0:24:59 > 0:25:01CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:10Now, that's almost it for this series of Music Night At Brownlow.
0:25:10 > 0:25:13To play us out, the Scott Wood Band.
0:25:13 > 0:25:14All the best.
0:28:20 > 0:28:23CHEERING AND APPLAUSE