CONTENTS

1. Dexter Day
2. Sleeping Maggie
3. Three Craws sat Upon a Wa’
4. Skye Boat Song
5. Rakes of Mallow
6/7. The Arran Boat Song
8. Coulter’s Candy
9. A Mhairead Og
10. Da Mirrie Boys o Greenland
11. Bheir mi O
12. In the Snow Where the Deers Are
13. Bridget Cruise
14/15. Fires at Midnight

All pieces composed or trad. arranged by Wendy Stewart

Introduction

Welcome! Please listen to the accompanying CD as often as possible before you try to learn these tunes. This will let the shapes and patterns of the melodies and chords settle in your brain before you attempt the hard bit of transferring them to your own fingers. Take it slow and steady with building up the arrangements - perhaps a right hand first or chord pattern as I have done on the recording. Use the CD again to play along to or to accompany yourself - karaoke clarsach! With this selection of traditional and new pieces, l’ve used a range of styles and feel. I hope you find something you really like the sound of and will play for a long time to come. Wendy Stewart. Glencairn, Scotland.

Notes

There are performance notes at the end of the book