"Badenoch People" Recent heritage stories and culture of the area - learn how the locals used to make their own whisky in the hills and how a man changed his name to take over the ownership of a hotel. Find the very heart of the Highlands and how the great traditional sport of shinty evolved into the beloved Badenoch sport it is today!
Researched and recorded as part of the BADENOCH THE STORYLANDS app, a self-guided touring aid, showcasing the very best that the local heritage of the culturally rich region of Badenoch has to offer. The app is available to download now from Google and Apple app stores. Access to the app and all the content is free – just search for "Badenoch The Storylands".
The Stories Series is also available here on Bandcamp as a FREE DOWNLOAD (you can opt to make a donation if you wish)
The 'Badenoch - The Storylands' project:
Hamish has produced a series of tales, legends and historical stories for Badenoch Heritage & the Cairngorms National Park, for the new Badenoch The Storylands App. Over 6 months in the making, Hamish researched, wrote and narrated 18 local stories. These will be released as three spoken word albums, Volume I (Folk Tales), Volume II (People) and Volume III (History). Each story incorporates music from Hamish's Strathspey Trilogy as the soundtrack, and features several local voice actors from Badenoch & Strathspey.
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released August 14, 2021
All soundtrack music composed and performed by Hamish Napier
From his three solo albums ’The River’, ’The Railway’ and ’The Woods’.
These stories were researched and written by Hamish Napier with the kind help of:
Mary Mackenzie, Roddy MacLean, David Taylor, John Robertson, Rosemary Gibson, Eve Boyle, Ruaridh Ormiston, Sandy MacDonell, Hugh Dan MacLennan, Ian Moffett, Peter Mackay, Seumas Grannd, Iain MacIlleChiar, Margaret Stewart, Colin Mackenzie, Mairi & Jim Macpherson, Phillip Dunshea, David Petts, Badenoch Heritage, the 'Stitches in Time’ Project and the Calum Maclean Project.
Many thanks to the local Badenoch volunteer voice actors recorded at Am Fasgadh, Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore:
Sheila Mackay (singer), Nicole Webber, Catherine Vis-Christie, Yvonne Richmond, Sandra Mackay (singer), Ruaridh Ormiston, Donnie Ross, Rob Ritchie, Peter Mackay, Cailean McKerron, Cameron McNeish, Jarlath Henderson, Seumas Grannd (singer), Hugh Dan MacLennan, Charlie McKerron and Sandy MacDonell (bagpipes).
Recorded by Hamish Napier in his home studio and at at Am Fasgadh, Highland Folk Museum, Newtonmore
Mixed and Mastered by Andrea Gobbi at CarrierWaves, Glasgow and GloWorm Recording, Glasgow.
Scottish mega piper Ross Ainslie. awesome self-penned tunes, banging arrangements and all-round dynamite production! Ross and I have been collaborating for years on each other's gigs and albums! Hamish Napier
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Two amazing musicians in their own right, put them together and the result is even greater than the sum of the parts.
The goal to capture, "live," energy is achieved, such a great album! PipingJim
supported by 9 fans who also own “Badenoch The Storylands Vol.2 - People”
My father was born in Glasgow, yet somehow I have never visited Scotland. This lovely music sounds like my ticket of return to the country of his birth. Philip Graham
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