Temporarily out of print

Extras on the DVD include shorts of various cultural centers found around Cape Breton.

Highland Legacy:
The Music of Cape Breton
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DVD

A lively forty minute documentary which captures the passion of dozens of people within the Cape Breton music scene. Footage from square dances, festivals and house parties.

Fiddling from Kinnon Beaton, Glenn Graham, Willie Kennedy, Rodney MacDonald, Alex Francis MacKay, Teresa MacLellan, Mike MacDougall, Buddy MacMaster, Father Angus Morris and more.

Commentary from traditional story tellers Archie Neil Chisholm and Joe Neil MacNeil, from historian Bob Morgan and from many professional musicians including John Donald Cameron, John Campbell, Winnie Chafe, Marie MacLellan and Doug MacPhee.

Screen Shots - below

Tunes - listing of both the players and titles of the tunes heard in the sound-track + many links to music notation.

 

Alex Francis MacKay

Buddy MacMaster

Marie MacLellan

Theresa MacLellan

Margie Beaton, Dawn Beaton & Robbie Fraser

Doug MacPhee

Rodney MacDonald & Glenn Graham

Kinnon Beaton


Willie Kennedy

Winnie Chafe

Tunes & Players Heard in the Soundtrack

Time
Tunes
Players
0:00

Lord Rothes (slow air)

Carl MacKenzie & Doug MacPhee

0:57

King George IV, (strathspey)

Buddy MacMaster & John Morris Rankin

1:17

Christy Campbell (strathspey)

John Willie Campbell

2:37

Hector the Hero (slow air)

Winnie Chafe

3:30

Molly Rankin's Reel

Kinnon & Betty Beaton
4:40

Alice Robertson (pipe reel)

"
5:15

Lochaber Gathering (pipe march)

Teresa MacLellan
6:14

The Devil in the Kitchen (strathspey)

"
7:03

The Bonnie Lass of Headlake (marching air)

Willie Kennedy, Kenneth Joseph MacDonald, Kinnon Beaton and Father Angus Morris

8:45

Miss Maules (strathspey)

Kinnon & Betty Beaton

9:40

Miller o Drone (strathspey)

Alex Francis MacKay

10:18

Sleepy Maggie (reel)

John Donald Cameron

10:58

Captain Campbell (strathspey)

Mike MacDougall
11:40

Marnoch's Strathspey

"
12:08

The Perrie Werrie (reel)

Willie Kennedy, Kenneth Joseph MacDonald, Kinnon Beaton and Father Angus Morris

12:40

Lord Seaforth (reel)

"
13:20

Lord MacDonald (reel)

"
13:55

The West Mabou Reel

"
14:40

Bog an Lochan (strathspey)

Bill Lamey

15:17

King George V (strathspey)

Buddy MacMaster

16:08

Memories of Paddy LeBlanc (march)

Teresa & Maire MacLellan

18:24

Back of the Change House (strathspey)

Kinnon Beaton

18:52

Alice Robertson (pipe reel)

"
19:26

You're Welcome Charlie Stewart (reel)

"
20:22

Carl Beaton's Reel (Donald Angus Beaton)

Glenn Graham & Rodney MacDonald

20:35

Sandy MacIntrye's Trip to Boston (reel)

"
21:08

i. The High Road to Linton, ii. Cuir sa Chiste Mhor aka Put me in the Big Chest (reels)

Dawn & Margie Beaton, Robbie Fraser, Tanya MacRae and John Allan Cameron

22:36

The Athole Highlanders Farewell to Loch Katrine (march)

Teresa & Maire MacLellan
23:25

Trip to Mabou Ridge (march)

"
23:57

The Maid of Isla (strathspey)

Rodney MacDonald & Elizabeth Beaton
24:30

Sir Reginald MacDonald (reel)

"
25:05

The Picnic Reel

"
26:03

Traditional Reel

Willie Kennedy, Kenneth Joseph MacDonald, Kinnon Beaton and Father Angus Morris

26:55

Spey in Spate (reel)

"
27:26

Hoch Hey Johnny Lad, (strathspey)

Alex Francis MacKay

28:03

Mabou Coal Mines (strathspey)

Glenn Graham, Rodney MacDonald , Kinnon & Elizabeth Beaton

28:47

Because he Was a Bonnie Lad, (strathspey)

"
29:08

Cape Breton Rigs (reel)

"
30:59

The Judique Consolidated High School 1991 Grads Reel

"
31:58

Over the Isles to America (pipe reel)

"
33:30

Donside , (strathspey)

Angus Allan Gillis

34:26

Miss Menzies of Culdares (reel)

Glenn Graham, Rodney MacDonald , Kinnon & Elizabeth Beaton

34:58

Tom Rae (reel)

"
35:30

Cape Breton Rigs (reel)

"
38:06

King George IV, (strathspey)

Buddy MacMaster & John Morris Rankin

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