The Song
Our song - Here's to All our Common Wealth - is now finished and we're hugely pleased to announced that Robyn Stapleton: BBC Radio Scotland Yound Traditional Musician of the Year 2014 is going to sing lead vocal on the recording. She'll be joined by a stellar line-up of Scotland's traditional musicians to record a backing track for choirs to perform with.
SImon Thoumire is writing a brand new pipe tune to go with the song - so if you have pipe or wind bands that your choir could join forces with - there will be a part for them to play.
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Performing The Song
In order to make the experience as accessible as possible to a wide range of people you can choose the performance version that will best suit your group. We'll have Scots and Gaelic versions of the song all available as downloads by 5th April ready for our training day in Dunblane. Choirs can then mix and match harmonies and language to make their own unique version of the song.
You might want to just sing in unison to a backing track that we’ll provide. This might be a good option if you’re planning a ‘open to all comers’ approach without much rehearsal or if your group has lots of inexperienced singers.
Or if your choir is more ambitious you may want to go for the unaccompanied harmony version that will also be available. Or add your own instrumentation.
All the separate harmony parts, backing parts and written music will be available as downloads by April 5th. Nd if you come along to the training day you'll get a CD of all the parts in your Training pack.
If you have a pipe band that would like to join in, there will also be a specially written tune available as a download. The tune will segway into the song to make a longer, more substantial performance.
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