Billy Jackson: The Wellpark Suite

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Media: CD
Genre: Folk & Traditional
Catalogue Number: IRCD008
Label: IONA
Released: 1985

Commisioned to celebrate the centenary of Tennent's Lager, first brewed in Wellpark Brewery, Glasgow, May 1885 and premiered at the Burrell Collection. The Wellpark Suite is a six movement piece written in a traditional style with electric guitar, bass, and drums being introduced towards the end to signify the progression of the past 100 years.
Billy Jackson (harp, synthesiser), Tony Cuffe (guitar), Iain MacDonald (pipes, whistle, flute), George Jackson (fiddle, whistle), John Martin (fiddle), John Gahagan (fiddle, whistle), Chris Miller (fiddle), Jim Sutherland (cittern, bodhran), Ron Shaw (cello), Wendy Weatherby (cello), Cy Jack (double bass, electric guitar), Peter Cairney (electric guitar), and Alex Baird (drums).

Tracklist

  1. Glasgow, 1885: The Dear Green Place Changed
  2. Life in the City: The March Of the Workers
  3. Molendinar: The Spring
  4. The Brewing
  5. Fermantation
  6. A Glasgow Celebration

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