Gathering of the Blogs

Tartan Day took me by surprise this year, and I didn't have enough time to prepare anything new. Please excuse me if I recycle some music from previous years.

Here are MIDI arrangments I made of a variety of Scottish tunes:

Lady Charlotte Campbell
Lady Mary Primrose
Warrior O'Persie
Fingal's Dirk
Largo's Fairy Dance
High Road to Linton
Andowin at da Bow
Tulloch Castle
Drummuir Castle
Marry Ketty
Cameronian Rant
The Athole Highlanders' Farewell to Loch Katrine
Rothiemurchus Rant
Muillean Dubh
Because He Was a Bonny Lad
The Strathbogie Editor
Wm Mac Hardy's Strathspey
Dr. Shaw
Pretty Peggy

For those of you with coarser tastes, here are some mp3s of Caledonian music I arranged for software synthesizers and sequencer. Don't look for subtlety here. File sizes range from about one to four megabytes.

Scotland the Brave
New Riggit Ship
Ghillie Callum
Harp and Claymore Medley

Finally, here are some pictures of my sister the Highland dancer competing at a Highland games in Kansas City a few years ago.

Here's the list of the weblogs participating in the Gathering of the Blogs:

Absinthe & Cookies
And then I woke up
BabyTrollBlog
Blackfive -- the Paratrooper of Love
Bodhran Roll, Please
Common Folk Using Common Sense
Consul-at-Arms
The Country Pundit
Dodgeblogium
Doggie's Blog
Frizzen Sparks
Grims Hall
Hillbilly White Trash
Kooky Kookbook
Lintefiniel Musing
The LLama Butchers
MB's Blogalicious
MB's Blogasm
Miasmatic Review
Not Exactly Rocket Science
Physics Geek
Quicksilver in the Hand
The Reality Ranch
Rexblog
Second Breakfast
Stix Blog
Swap Blog
TacJammer
Target Centermass
The Bull Speaks
Villainous Company
What a Sad Old Goth

MORE...

You don't need expensive electronics and fancy software to make a lot of noise. A set of pipes and a few drums suffice if you have the right attitude, and Clann An Drumma certainly has the attitude:

There's plenty more at YouTube.