Dòchas

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Puirt-a-Beul 00:00 Tools
Cha D'fhuair Mi'n Cadal 00:00 Tools
Waulking Song 00:00 Tools
Nelson And Donella 00:00 Tools
Miss Elizabeth Garland 00:00 Tools
Eilean Uibhist Mo Rùin 00:00 Tools
Dinny's Set 00:00 Tools
Sìleas 00:00 Tools
Pipe Jigs 00:00 Tools
Tiarna Mhaigh Eo 00:00 Tools
Puirt A Beul 00:00 Tools
Slow Air And March 00:00 Tools
Da Sheltie Set 00:00 Tools
Irish Jigs 00:00 Tools
Am Bròn Binn 00:00 Tools
Roddy C's 00:00 Tools
The Pashmina 00:00 Tools
Girls can Polka! 00:00 Tools
I Ho Ro 's Na Hug Oro Eile and Ae Fond Kiss 00:00 Tools
Jeenie's Set 00:00 Tools
Tar the House 00:00 Tools
A' Mhàiri Bhòidheach 00:00 Tools
Chuir lad Mise dh' Eilean Leam Fhin 00:00 Tools
Chuir Iad Mise dh'Eilean Leam Fhìn (They Send Me Alone To An Island) 00:00 Tools
Neilidh O'Boyle 00:00 Tools
Fingal's 00:00 Tools
Neildh O'Boyle 00:00 Tools
Chuir Lad Mise dh'Eilean Leam Fhin (They Send Me Alone To An Island) 00:00 Tools
Fingal's Weeping 00:00 Tools
The Pashmina And The Cromag/Back Of The Changehouse/The Famous Ballymote/Quinie 00:00 Tools
Tobin's favourite/Danny Anthony's/James Bryne's 00:00 Tools
Eilean Uibjist Mo Rùin (My Beloved Island Of Uist) 00:00 Tools
Am Bròn Binn (The Sweet Sorrow) 00:00 Tools
Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad (It Is I That Am Sorrowful) / Braes Of Melinish 00:00 Tools
Chuir Lad Mise Dh'Eilean Leam Fhin 00:00 Tools
Neildh O'Boyle's Highland/Duloman Na Binnt Bui/Sean 'sa Cheò 00:00 Tools
The Long Night/ Tar The House/ Na Goisidhich 00:00 Tools
Ray's Classic/Ballydesmond 1/Ballydesmond 2/Terry Heehan's 00:00 Tools
Robbie Paterson's/The Marquis Of Huntly/Jenna Reid Of Quarff 00:00 Tools
Irish Jigs : Tobin's Favourite / Danny Anthony's / James Byrne's 00:00 Tools
Fingals Weeping/Inspector Donald Campbell Of Ness/Nighean Aig A Chòta Bhùidhe 00:00 Tools
Irish Jigs: Tobin's Favourite / Danny Anthony's / James Byrne's 00:00 Tools
Tha Biodag Aig MacThomais (Thomson's Dirk) / Siod A' Rud A Thogadh Fonn (That Would Raise A Laugh) / Faca Sibh Màiri Nighean (Have You Seen Mary, Daughter Of Alasdair?) 00:00 Tools
A' Mhairi Bhoidheach 00:00 Tools
Eilean Uibhist Mo Rùin [My Beloved Island Of Uist] 00:00 Tools
A Mhàiri Bhòidheach 00:00 Tools
Tar The House : The Long Night / Tar In The House / Na Goisidich 00:00 Tools
Jeenie's Set : Robbie Paterson's / The Marquis Of Huntley / Jenna Reid Of Quarff 00:00 Tools
Neildh O'Boyle : Neilidh O'Boyle's Highland / Duloman Na Binnt Bui / Sean 'sa Cheó 00:00 Tools
Girls Can Polka! : Ray's Classic / Ballydesmond 1 / Balldesmond 2 / Terry Teehan's 00:00 Tools
Waulking Song: Gura Mise Tha fo Mhulad / Braes of Melinish 00:00 Tools
Fingal's: Fingal's Weeping / Inspector Donald Campbell of Ness / Nighean aig a' Chòta Bhùidhe 00:00 Tools
Neilidh O'Boyle: Neilidh O'Boyle's Highland / Duloman na Binnt Bui / Sean 'sa Cheò 00:00 Tools
The Pashmina: The Pashmina and the Cromag / Back of the Changehouse / The Famous Ballymote / Quinie fae Rhynie 00:00 Tools
Puirt-a-Beul : Tha Biodag Aig MavThomais / Thompson's Dirk / Siod a' Rud Thogadh Fonn 00:00 Tools
The Pashmina : The Pashmina And The Cromag / Back Of The Changehouse / The Famous Ballymote / Quinie Fae Rhynie 00:00 Tools
The Wanderer 00:00 Tools
Jeenie's Set: Robbie Paterson's / The Marquis of Huntly / Jenna Reid of Quarff 00:00 Tools
Fingal's Weeping : Fingal's Weeping / Inspector Donald Campbell Of Ness / Nighean Aig A Chóta 00:00 Tools
Waulking Song : Gura Mise Tha Fo Mhulad / Braes Of Melinish 00:00 Tools
Chuir Iad Mise dh'Eilean Leam Fhin 00:00 Tools
Puirt-à-Beul: Am Biodag aig MacThomais / Siod a' Rud a Thogadh Fonn / Faca Sibh Màiri Nighean Alasdair? 00:00 Tools
Girls can Polka!: Ray's Classic / Ballydesmond 1 / Ballydesmond 2 / Terry Teehan's 00:00 Tools
Tar the House: The Long Night / Tar the House / Na Goisidich 00:00 Tools
Dinny's Set: Kilty Town / Charlie Lennon's 00:00 Tools
Am bron binn 00:00 Tools
Puirt à Beul 00:00 Tools
Boat 00:00 Tools
Pipe Jigs: Sandy Broon's / Arlitrach / Port Sean Seosamh 00:00 Tools
Whiskey Yer The Divil 00:00 Tools
Chuir Iad Mise dh' Eilean Leam Fhìn 00:00 Tools
Cha D'Fhuair Mi 'n Cadal 00:00 Tools
Chuir lad Mise dh'Eilean; Leam Fhin 00:00 Tools
An Rince Crann 00:00 Tools
Ray's Classic; Ballydesmond 1; Ballydesmond 2; Terry Teehan's 00:00 Tools
Irish Jig 00:00 Tools
I Ho Ro 'S Na Hug Oro Eile / Ae Fond Kiss 00:00 Tools
Nelson and Donella: Donella Beaton / Nelson Mandela's Welcome to the City of Glasgow 00:00 Tools
Tobin's Favorite 00:00 Tools
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Dochas started life in 1997 as a three-piece ceilidh dance band formed by Rachel Walker from Kinlochewe, Carol-Anne MacKay from Strathy and Sharon Hassan from Insch, classmates on the R.S.A.M.D.’s inaugural intake of students for the BA (Scottish Music) degree course. Between them they played accordion, whistle, fiddle, pipes, piano and performed Gaelic song, and the band really started as a way for the impoverished students to use their combined skills to earn a bit of extra cash playing pub gigs, weddings, parties and dances. In 1998, singer Rachel was approached to perform with a band at the Highland Traditional Music Festival in Dingwall. The girls decided to augment their sound a bit and vary the concert set with the addition of Glasgow’s Kathleen Boyle on accordion and Eilidh MacLeod from Skye on clarsach (piper Finlay MacDonald was also a Dochas member for that first performance!). In 2000, Rachel decided to leave the band to pursue other work interests and Dochas were delighted to take on board Julie Fowlis from North Uist- singer, piper, whistle and oboe-player who had just graduated from Strathclyde University’s music degree course and was then studying Gaelic at Skye’s Sabhal Mor Ostaig with Eilidh. Julie’s first gig with the band was a baptism of fire- a TV recording for a Gaelic music series in Stornoway. It was also in Stornoway, although some time later, that the girls enlisted the fiddling skills of Shetlander Jenna Reid, another R.S.A.M.D. student, since Sharon had also decided it was time to leave the band. And with this new line-up, the girls prepared to go into the studio to record their first album. Dochas are now a six-piece band since the welcome addition in 2004 of former All-Britain, All-Ireland and World Bodhran Champion, Martin O’Neill from Glasgow, a classmate of Julie’s and guest on the hugely successful debut album, ‘Dochas’, realeased on the Macmeanmna label in 2002. The band has toured extensively throughout Scotland, Ireland, England, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Canada and the States. In November 2003 they were nominated for and in 2004 won ‘Best Up and Coming Artists’ at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards. Their eagerly-awaited second album, ‘An Darna Umhail’ (The Second Glance) was released during the band’s 2005 Spring tour of Austria and the same year also saw the individual successes of Jenna and Julie at the Trad Music Awards, picking up Best Newcomer and Best Gaelic Singer respectively, each releasing their own solo album within a few months of the other. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.