Image: Fiona Ritchie and Dougie MacLean around the 10th anniversary of The Thistle & Shamrock at Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh, 1993. Dougie is Fiona’s guest on this week’s show.
Week 39 (#2157)
In June, The Thistle & Shamrock® marked 41 years of weekly national broadcasts. It’s time to step back but not before making more memories. Singer-songwriter Dougie MacLean joins Fiona to reminisce; we debut a brand new fiddle tune by Pete Clark, written for this moment; and we toast musicians, guests, stations, and the best listeners: “We’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne.”
[Look out for special shows to come and explore 15 years worth of archived weekly episodes at npr.org/thistle and on the NPR App and see the full Thistle & Shamrock Highlights list.)
Fiona and Irish singer Maura O'Connell, Nashville, 2015. Maura opens this week's show.
The Water is Wide…by Maura O’Connell from The Best of The Thistle & Shamrock (Hearts O’Space)
Twa Bonny Maidens…by Alan Reid and Brian McNeill from Sidetracks (High Hold)
Voice on the Airwaves/Ian Charles Hodgson of Balmore…by Pete Clark from Now & Then (Inver)
Suivant…by Margaret Kennedy (private recording)
Corryvreckan…by William Jackson from Land of Light (Mill)
Ten Thousand Miles…by Altan from Another Sky (Narada World)
[ID excerpt] Sgian S’gur…by Alan Reid and Brian McNeill from Sidetracks (High Hold)
The Thistle (strathspey)/The Shamrock (jig)…by Pete Clark and Muriel Johnstone (private recording) - view the sheet music at https://www.thistleradio.com/new-fiddle-tunes
This Love Will Carry…by Dougie MacLean from Wells for Zoë - Water for Life (Compass)
Mists of Time…by Dougie MacLean from GNA (Dunkeld)
May Morning Dew…by Moving Hearts from Live in Dublin (Compass)