Artist:Shooglenifty
Song:The Tammienorrie
Album:Venus in Tweeds
The Scottish band Shooglenifty plays a mix of traditional Celtic music and contemporary music called Celtic Fusion. A good reference point for Celtic Fusion is Afro Celt Sound System, a band Shooglenifty has worked with. The 1990 formation of Shooglenifty came out of the ashes of the band Swamptrash. Swamptrash released one 1987 album and split up in 1990. Most of Swamptrash including fiddler Angus R. Grant formed a new band. They couldn't use the name Swamptrash so the band was called Shooglenifty. I don't know what that means. Grant was the band leader along with former House Band mandolinist Iain MacLeod. Those two wrote all the songs. Shooglenifty does not record traditional music. The other members of Shooglenifty were all members of Swamptrash including Garry Finlayson on banjo, Malcolm Crosbie on guitar, Conrad Ivitsky on bass and James Mackintosh on drums. The Tammienorrie is from their 1994 debut album Venus in Tweeds on the Scottish label Greentrax. The album was produced by Greentrax house producer Jim Sutherland. MacLeod wrote The Tammienorrie. Shooglenifty got international attention when they appeared on the 1996 Afro Celt Sound System album Volume 1: Sound Magic. Shooglenifty was picked up in the US by the roots music label Compass. And they have been touring internationally ever since. As you will see in the video, they are very energetic and you don't have to be a Celtic music fan to enjoy them. Shooglenifty has recorded for their own label since 2005. Sadly, Angus R. Grant died in 2016. Instead of ending the band, the remainder of Shooglenifty minus MacLeod decided to continue and former Poozies fiddler Eilidh Shaw replaced Grant and Ewan MacPherson replaced MacLeod. So obviously it's a different band now. Buyer beware. Here's Shooglenifty performing The Tammienorrie at the 2007 Cambridge Folk Festival.
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