"Rowing from Isla to Uist" (in Gaelic "Iomramh Eadar Il’ A’s Uist"),
also known as "Rowing From Islay To Uist" is a Scottish air in 6/8 time and A Minor.
The parts are played: one part (Johnson) or AA'B (Fraser).
Isla (or Islay) and Uist are islands in the Inner and Outer Hebrides near to the west coast of
Scotland. At the closest points, the islands are more then 80 miles apart, quite a distance for
rowing.
It was printed in Fraser's The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the
Isles (1816),
Johnson's The Kitchen Musician's No. 10: Airs & Melodies of Scotland's Past (1992) and
Patrick McDonald's A Collection of Highland Vocal Airs (1784).
It was recorded by Abby Newton on Castles, Kirks and Caves (2000),
Alasdair Fraser on Tullochgorum (2005),
Alison Melville on She's Sweetest when She's Naked (2005),
Ossian on St. Kilda Wedding and
Connemara on SirenSong.
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