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The Temple Records website gives you access to the best
in Scottish Traditional Music, plus a little bit of Irish Music
for good measure.
Here at Temple, we have some of the best Scottish Traditional harp,
bagpipe and fiddle music plus gaelic song, singer/songwriters
like Pat Kilbride and not forgetting Battlefield Band.
From artists like Alison Kinnaird, Ann Heymann, Marie Ni Chathasaigh,
Bill Taylor, Dr. Angus MacDonald, John D. Burgess, Shotts &
Dkyehead, Christine Primrose, Arthur Cormack, Flora MacNeil,
Brian McNeill, John McCusker, Alan Reid, Jim Hunter, Peter Nardini
... to name but a few. Enjoy browsing our site by using
the links below and on the left.
You can also hear, and download, free MP3s from most of the
albums in our catalogue in the 'shop' section of the site.
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Sometime in the latter part of the 18th century, Brian Merryman wrote “¨Cuirt an Mhean Oiche”. After Frank O’Connor translated it into English in 1945, the work was banned by the Irish Censorship Board. The forgetfulness of a tourist led Sean Tyrrell to stage David Marcus’s translation regarded as the hit of the Galway Arts Festival with a cast of eleven in 1992 produced by Druid Theater Compan... read more
Posted Monday 04th of August 2008 at 03:07:00 PM | No rest for the wicked, and none for Battlefield Band either. The boys have been on the road a lot already this year, having played concerts in Switzerland, Holland,Germany, Canada, UK Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
There are also more UK & US dates planned for late... read more
Posted Monday 04th of August 2008 at 02:51:00 PM | For over 30 years Battlefield Band have created and played traditional Scottish music with a rare passion and joy, delighting audiences around the globe and evolving into what the press have called:
"...a wondrous, perfectly paced display by musicians firmly in command of their art...a Highland jam that rang the rafters."
The Washington Post
For these three decades the band have been distilling their own unique form of the Scottish spir... read more
Posted Tuesday 17th of June 2008 at 11:24:00 AM | We're extremely pleased to announce that, in addition to winning the World Traditional Music category in the 7th annual Independent Music Awards for his album An Clàr Geal, Battlefield Band's Alasdair White has also won the Vox Populi Poll in the 2008 World Traditional Music category in the Awards.
The original award was voted for by various esteemed industry judges - people like Char... read more
Posted Tuesday 17th of June 2008 at 11:24:00 AM | Back in the peaceful creative environment of the Temple Records studio, one-man-blues-band Mike Whellans had some time to celebrate his Bruno Award received for the overall best entertainer and artist at the 19th Mattmanner Blues Festival held in Mettmann Germany in the 1st week of march.
For over 18 years the Mattmanner Blues Festival has celebrated the talent of the world’s best blues musicians, and the 19th event continued the success of previous years. With such names as Steve “Big Man” Clayton, Tam White and Dave Kelly to name a few, the depth of talent and experience wowed the cro... read more
Posted Monday 24th of March 2008 at 01:18:00 PM |
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Mike Katz
The unmistakeable piper who joined Battlefield Band in late 1997and has contributed massively to the music and accessibility of the group.
Mike comes originally from LA and has been playing the pipes... read more
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Christine Primrose
Christine, from Carloway, a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, is a native speaker of Scottish Gaelic, and has been singing traditional Gaelic song all her life. Chri... read more
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