Gretchen Peters: Independence Day

This song has been in the news quite a bit over the years, one way or another, most recently during the November election campaign. If you've not seen it before -- or if you have --maybe time to take a look again.
Martina McBride sings it, Gretchen Peters, whose work you've met here before, wrote it.

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Independence Day

Eddi Reader sings Robert Burns

It is the year of homecoming Scotland, after all, and here is Eddi Reader singing -- and wi' wee bit o'dancin' too-- the song Willie Stewart at the concert of Robert Burns songs called Auld Lang Syne at the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall in January. Check out her backing band too, especially John McCusker on fiddle...

julie fowlis with bagad kemper

Here's a lively bit of music for the new year -- and music you'll not have heard everywhere, at that. Julie Fowlis, who sings in Scots Gaelic, offers a tradtional song from her home in Scotland's far northwest, and she's backed not by her usual two acoustic musicians, but by a really big backing band, the Breton ensemble Bagad Kemper. They were playing at the Royal Glasgow Concert Hall.






there's more about Julie Fowlis here