ROAMING FREE
Roaming Free represents a collaboration between two masters of their instruments with complimentary styles who have created something bigger than the sum of the two combined. From the fiery delight of a reel to the controlled abandonment of a slow air, Colin MacLeod's fiddle sings as Rory Sinclair's guitar dances and whilst the fiddle lays solemnly silent, the guitar resurrects sombre compositions with a glittering quality.

Colin and Rory, first found musical lilt in their native homeland of Scotland. This experience was enhanced and further shaped by periods of life spent in Germany (Rory) and South Africa (Colin) before the chance encounter at the Australian National Folk Festival in Canberra 2004.

The CD represents a degustation or sampling of some of the finest Scottish music from Down Under.

A list of the CD tracks are provided below. To get a copy of the sheet music, click here.

1. Glen Tilt (Reel)(Trad)/ The Tourist (Pipe Hornpipe)(Fraser Martin)

2. Lament for the Reverend Archie Beaton (Slow Air)(Sir John Mason)/ Earl Grey (Strathspey)(James Hill)/ Sir Reginald MacDonald (Reel)(Trad)

3. The Ale Is Dear (Reel)(Trad)/ Jenny Dang The Weaver (Reel)(Rev. Alexander Garden)/ The Reconciliation (Reel)(Trad)

4. Sweetness of Mary (Slow Air)(Joan MacDonald Boes)/ The Famous Bridge (Reel)(Trad)/ The Swallow Tail Coat Reel (Trad)

5. Bonawe Highlanders (March)(D.Bowman)/ The Wife She Brewed It (Strathspey)(Trad)/ The Left Handed Fiddler (Reel)(J. Scott Skinner)

6. Sweet Biddy Daly (Buttermilk Mary)(Jig)(Trad)/ Over The Ocean (Split the Whisker)(Jig)(Trad)/ Mug of Brown Ale (Paddy In London)(Jig)(Trad)

7. John Roy Lyall (Slow Air)(Eddie Edmonds)/ Braigh Banff : The Highlands of Banffshire (Strathspey)(Capt. Fraser Lowe)/ Carnie's Canter (Reel)(J. Scott Skinner)

8. The Seagull (Pipe Jig)(P.M. Donald MacLeod)

9. 79th Farewell to Gibraltar (March)(P.M. J.MacDonald)/ The Devil In The Kitchen (Strathspey)(John MacPherson)/ The Kilt Is My Delight (Reel)(Trad)

10. The Mill, Mill'O (Slow Air)(Trad)/Quickstep - Neil Gow with Variations by James Hunter

11. PM Donald MacLean of Lewis (Jig)(P.M. Donald MacLeod)/ Farewell To The Creeks (Jig)(P.M. James 'Pipie' Robertson)