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    Born of a desire to marry the best of both Celtic and chamber music in exciting and creative ways, the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble blends Scottish and Irish bagpipes, whistle, flute, fiddle, harp, and dance to create a Celtic style all their own. Their debut album features traditional and contemporary songs and tunes from Ireland, Scotland, and America.

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The lyrics of the Skye Boat Song which we perform were written by Sir Harold Boulton, to an existing Scottish folk melody collected in 1870. Boulton’s lyrics memorialize “Bonnie Prince” Charles Edward Stuart’s escape to the isle of Skye, aided by Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald, after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. A few years later, author Robert Louis Stevenson penned an alternate set of lyrics, which today are used for the theme of the popular Outlander series – switching out “lad” for “lass.”

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Chorus:

Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wing.
Onward, the sailors cry!
Carry the lad that’s born to be King
Over the sea to Skye.

Loud the winds howls, loud the waves roar,
Thunderclaps rend the air.
Baffled our foes stand on the shore.
Follow they will not dare.

Chorus

Though the waves leap, soft shall ye sleep,
Ocean's a royal bed.
Rocked in the deep, Flora will keep
Watch by your weary head.

Chorus

Many's the lad fought on that day
Well the claymore did wield,
When the night came, silently lay
Dead on Culloden’s field.

Chorus

Burned are our homes, exile and death
Scatter the loyal men
Yet, e'er the sword cool in the sheath
Charlie will come again.

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from Cleveland Celtic Ensemble, released March 16, 2024
Harold Boulton; traditional Scottish

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Tiffany Schaefer - Harp & Song Cleveland, Ohio

For the past fifteen years Tiffany Schaefer has been playing and promoting Celtic music in Northeast Ohio and beyond. She performs regularly as a solo artist and with the Cleveland Celtic Ensemble. Most recent recognitions include winner of the US National Scottish Harp Championship in 2022. As an experienced educator, she offers private lessons and online workshops to an international following. ... more

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