CD - Reeling In The Moonlight - Murdo A MacLeod 

Murdo A MacLeod is a self-taught exponent of the button-key accordion, who began playing professionally with Andy McColl’s Ceilidh Band while still a student at Glasgow School of Art.
After some years with the band he left to become a solo performer at Highland Gatherings and Ceilidhs in and around Glasgow and also began radio broadcasting.
He was one of the musicians asked to take part in the Celtic Week in Copenhagen in June 1986, joining Capercaille, Ultan Celynen and Gwertz as representatives of the Celtic folk music culture in Europe.
This CD contains a large part of the original cassette of the same title, plus 3 new tracks.
Murdo A MacLeod, Button key Accordion with M J MacLeod Drums and Kenny ‘Fags’ Macdonald, Bass and acoustic guitars. 

Track Listing
1 Highland Schottische Lord Blantyre (N Gow) Maggie Cameron (Trad) Devil in the Kitchen (Trad) 2 Military Two-step MacDonald’s awa tae the War (A Cameron) Captain White (Trad) Kenmure’s on and awa’ (Trad) 3 Pipe Marches Campbell’s Farewell to Redcastle (Trad) Earl of Mansfield (J MacEwan) The Drunken Piper (Trad)
4 Gaelic Waltz Tuigainn do Scalpaigh (John Morrison) Te bhan (Trad) An t-Alltan Dubh (Trad) 5 Barn Dance Direadh na Staidhre’s a Royal (Trad) Portree Men (Trad) Tha thid a bhith gad shlaodadh (Trad) 6 Gay Gordons Uist Tramping Song (Trad) Thistle of Scotland (Trad) Cutting Bracken (Trad) 7 Pipe Marches Major Norman Orr Ewing (W Ross) Sweet Maid of Glendaruel (Trad) Heilan’ Laddie (Trad) 8 Bonnie Dundee Bonnie Dundee (Trad) Glasgow Gaelic Club (Trad) Cock o’ the North (Trad) 9 Gaelic Airs Eilean Scalpaigh na Hearadh (J Morrison) An Airigh (Abey MacLeod) Eilean an Fhraoich (M MacLeod)
10 Scotch Reel
‘S iomadh rud a chunnaic mi (Trad) Captain Carswell (W Lawrie) Mor a’ Cheannaich (Trad) 11 Ceilidh Time The Bonnie Lass of Bonaccord (Scott Skinner)
12 Military Two-step
Capt E. B. Towse V. C. (G S MacLennan) Pibroch of Donal Dubh (Trad) 13 Gaelic Waltz Feasgar agus cèo ann (Trad) Tioram air Tir (Trad) Uibhist an eòrna (A Matheson) 14 Gay Gordons Bonnie Lass of Fyvie (Trad) The Shamrock (Trad) Stop your ticklin’ Jock (Trad) 15 Scotch Reel Murchadh Tóbha churraig dhuibh (Trad) Traditional Barn Dance, Harvest Home (Trad) 16 Gaelic Waltz Ged tha mo cheann air liathadh (Trad) Dolina’s Waltz (Murdo A MacLeod) ‘Se Siabost as boidhche (M MacLeod)

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