Cockeral in the Creel

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Composer/Core Source	Donald MacLeod
Region	Scotland
Genre/Style	Pipe, Scottish
Meter/Rhythm	Reel (single/double)
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Artist	Biography:Ronan Martin
Title of recording	Ronan Martin
Record label/Catalogue nr.	Wildcat Records WILDCD 101
Year recorded	2008
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COCKERAL IN THE CREEL. Scottish, Pipe Reel. Composed by the late Donald MacLeod from the Isle of Lewis, who, in a BBC Radio interview with John MacFadyen in 1977 said:

I composed that in Saskatchewan when I was attending one of the Summer Schools. When I was a little boy my Granny lived at Benside which is just on the outskirts of Stornoway and I remember her, and others, on Saturday evening with the upturned creel chasing the poor cockerel around the croft and when he was within distance, bang!. There he was imprisoned until Monday morning because there was no way the cockerel could be employed on Sunday. Lewis people, as you know, observed the Sabbath - even our animals did. But his protestations always amused me. I took many, many years to get a tune which sounded anywhere near the poor cockerel as he was put under the creel.

Recorded source: Wildcat Records WILDCD 101, Ronan Martin - "Ronan Martin" (2008).

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