Bonnie Isle o' Whalsay
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"Bonnie Isle o' Whalsay" is a Shetland reel in A Major ('A' part) and<br> A Mixolydian ('B' part).<br> The parts are played AAB.<br> Whalsay is a peat-covered island in the Shetland Islands. It is situated<br> east of the Shetland Mainland and has an area of 7.6 square miles.<br> The main local industries are fishing and crofting agriculture.<br> The tune was printed in Brody's Fiddler's Fakebook (1983) and<br> Martin & Hughes' Ho-ro-gheallaidh (1990).<br> It was recorded by Tom Anderson and Aly Bain on The Silver Bow (1993),<br> Willie Hunter And Violet Tulloch on 1982 (1982),<br> Capercaillie on Cascade (1984),<br> Aly Bain And Ale Möller on Fully Rigged (2001),<br> The Alistair McCulloch Trio on Off the Hook (2018) and others.<br>
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