Saturday Music Post - Celtic Classics

"The Bonnie Banks O' Loch Lomond" is a traditional Scottish song, with various adaptations dating to the eighteenth century. The "low road" refers to death, of either a lover or the executed soldiers in Bonnie Prince Charlie's 1746 rebellion against the British Crown. "Oh, Danny Boy" is an Irish lament, likely for a son gone off to war, with lyrics written by English lawyer Frederic Weatherly in 1910, and set to the traditional balled "Londonderry Air." Both the Scots and the Irish have many rousing melodies, but two of the most famous are these sorrowful tunes. There are almost limitless versions -- solo, chorale, instrumental, and even rock.

Don't miss the two non-traditional arrangements at the bottom of today's post at The Faculty Lounge.