Our Recordings

As well as the recordings below, we also have recorded 2 tracks on the CD released to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the RSCDS London Branch. For more details click here.
CDMervyn

Price £12 + postage
CD3cover

Price £12 + £1 p&p

This CD, released November 2009, is to accompany a booklet of 12 Scottish dances devised by Mervyn Short.

The dances are: The Handsel (8x32 Jig), Boundary Cottage (4 x 32 strathspey - 2 chords), Moorlands at Hay Tor (8x32 Reel), Sidney’s Reel (3x32 Jig), Naishcombe Hill (8x32 Strathspey), The Wellingtonia Reel (8x32 Reel), King Edward’s Jig (4x32 Jig - 2 chords), The Old School Strathspey (4x32 Strathspey - 2 chords), Fahyda (8x32 Hornpipe), Birdham Pool (8x40 Jig), Edinburgh’s Gain (4x40 Strathspey - 2 chords), The Architect (8x32 Reel).

For more details, please contact Mervyn Short on 01903 782413 or email mervynshort@googlemail.com.

Our third CD, released March 2005, is available as a CD and to download as an album or individual tracks from itunes and Amazon. Keith Smith joins us to celebrate one of the most popular dance forms of the nineteenth century - the quadrille. This CD is a unique fusion of Regency Dance and the inspiring rhythms of the Scottish tradition. The CD contains a 20 page booklet of dance instructions for all the dances. For complete track and tune listing click here.

Music for the Scottish tradition: Clutha, New Scotia Quadrille, Quadrille Country Dance, The Queen’s Quadrille, The Jubilee Quadrille.
Regency: - The Duke of Kent’s Waltz, The Pavilion Waltz, Paine’s 1st Set of Quadrilles, Paine’s 12th Set of Quadrilles, Hart’s Lancers Quadrilles.

Hear a sample (Clutha - .mp3 852Kb )

Hear a sample (Paine’s 1st - .mp3 354Kb )

“The sound quality and tone of the instruments is wonderful. Keith Smith is wonderful on the fiddle....joining with the talented fiddle sound of Green Ginger they make a sound to dance to.
This CD makes me want to have an evening of quadrilles.”

- Elaine Brunken (from a review in the RSCDS’ Scottish country dancer magazine)
MissO

Price £10 + £1 p&p

Our second CD, released Dec 2002, is available as a CD and for download both as an album and individual tracks via itunes or Amazon. For complete track and tune listing click here.

Hear a sample (37 secs - .mp3 reduced quality 290Kb )

Our first CD, released in 1999 is no longer available as a CD but is now available to download as an album or individual tracks via itunes or Amazon. It contains 16 tracks of mostly Scottish Country dances with a couple of listening tracks. For complete track and tune listing click here.

To buy Miss Ogilvie’s Fancy or Music for Quadrilles direct from us, please contact Meryl Thomson.

You can also buy our CDs from Music In Scotland or TACSound (for USA/Canada). Gang on the Same Gate, Miss Ogilvie’s Fancy and Music for Quadrilles can be downloaded from itunes or Amazon.