The tune of This Ae Night is in Niel Gow’s “Complete Repository of Original Scots Tunes”; the words are from James Johnson and Robert Burns’ “Scots Musical Museum”, but have been very heavily anglicised.
The En Dro is a Breton circle dance: this particular tune came to us via a cassette by Mark Roberts, Sandol Atrausky and Ged Foley - we’ve slowed it down to make it more suitable for English step-hop dances.
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from Art Gecko,
released June 1, 1995
Trad. arr. Geckoes
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