The Occasionals ceilidh band started in 1986, featuring a number of great musical friends. Over time it naturally distilled into the quartet of musicians heard here on this, their seventh recording: Freeland Barbour, Ian Hardie, Kevin MacLeod and Gus Millar. This album is a celebration of 25 years of playing dances at many different occasions, and the band has included some old classics, lesser known gems from Jimmy Shand and Bobby MacLeod, and a good few new ones from Freeland.
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WESTRINGING is a significant, new direction for Ian Hardie after over 35 years involvement in the Scottish Folk scene (solo, with Andy Thorburn and in bands such as Jock Tamson’s Bairns & Highland Connection), as well as current dance playing with The Occasionals & The Ghillies. You probably won’t have heard anything quite like this from a Scot before!