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The Drunken Piper of Banvie

by Kana St Kilties

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Peter Dow 01:31
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Fighting Mac 02:54
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Miss Fiona 03:36
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Invercargill 01:40
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The Landlord 02:48
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The lash of foam-decked breakers is drumming in my brain, The green unresting acres call me once again. Gigantic tramps smoke-blackened fade out across the blue, With steady gait unslackened, they reach old ports anew. But when the mists are falling, and waves build up like hills, I hear home's magic calling, I hear a voice that thrills. There is a throb of pumping, there is a crash of steel, And the steamer goes out romping with joy that one can feel. There is a far horizon, there is a wind that stings, And a day I have my eyes on, and a heart that calls and sings. A past that is forgotten, and washed away, the pain. No crude ambition thought on, no ends and goals to gain, But just the sea's loud sounding, and just the engine's song, The big boat forward pounding, and a voyage six weeks long.
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Welcome Home 01:43
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Cheery 01:50
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Mrs Painter 00:56
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Friendship 01:22
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John Logie 01:08
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Mrs Knowles 03:20

about

Alexander (Sandy) Taylor Cameron 1863-1957:
AT Cameron was born in southern New Zealand in 1863 into a Scottish immigrant family of pipers, five of his brothers being pipers, two of them champions. The sitting room in the homestead of the family farm, ‘Banvie”, was constructed with a high ceiling, to accommodate the acoustics of the pipes. The Camerons founded the local pipe band, the Mataura Kilties, of which Jim & Neil have both been members. A.T. worked on the farm at Ferndale near Mataura, and around Balclutha. Many of his tunes are written about identities of those places, people he made friends with in piping competitions, and events contemporary to him. Sandy left a legacy of pipe tunes from his youth when in 1934 he published “A New Zealand Collection of Bagpipe Tunes”, from which the music on this CD is taken. The Cameron brothers were known to be fond of the local Hokonui Moonshine, and Alexander senior, Sandy’s father, wrote into his will that Sandy and Donald would be disinherited if they touched a drop in the six months after his death. Sandy is known to have spent a couple of spells in rehab, to dry out.

The Kana St Kilties are:
Jim the trim McKelvie blew it (Left Handed Highland Bagpipes and Small pipes)
Neil Mouse McKelvie beat it (Drum Kit, djumbuk, bodrhan and enthusiasm)
Tracy van Veldhuisen plucked it and bowed it (Bass, cello)
Chalida McKelvie and Megan McKelvie Fiddled with it
Jared Walter read the poem
Pete McKelvie (arrangements, guitars & sundry instruments, production)
Recorded at Mouse Hole Studio Invercargill and Athhole Studio St Marys NSW Oct 2016

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released March 17, 2017

The National Library of New Zealand’s “Papers Past’ website is acknowledged as the source of the newspaper extracts

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