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4 unusual facts about Battlefield Band


Battlefield Band

The next line-up included Dougie Pincock (bagpipes) and Jim and Sylvia Barnes, Alan Reid (vocals and electric keyboards) and Brian McNeill (fiddle).

John Gahagan (fiddle/whistle) - now working as a graphic artist in Glasgow and continuing to play music.

Jim Barnes and Sylvia Barnes (bouzouki & vocal/dulcimer) - came to Battlefield Band via Kentigern.

Gleanntáin Ghlas' Ghaoth Dobhair

On their 1976 debut studio album Scottish Folk, the Scottish traditional music group Battlefield Band recorded a song about Irish immigration entitled "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore" that shares a melody with this song.


The Boys of the Lough

Robin Morton had left to found a Scottish folk music label called Temple Records (featuring such groups as the Battlefield Band).


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