A Fragment of Traditional Canntaireachd

The pibroch ‘The Piper’s Warning to his Master’, and especially Donald MacDonald’s version ‘MacDonald’s Warning’, is echoed in the traditional song ‘Cholla mo Ruin’, of which several versions have been recorded at Tobar an Dualchais. This one is sung by Mary Morrison, Barra: http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/en/fullrecord/43276/3 Of special interest is the diddling or canntaireachd at the end, […]