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Caledonia is a modern Scottish folk ballad written by Dougie MacLean in 1977. [1] The chorus of the song features the lyric "Caledonia, you're calling me, and now I'm going home", [2] the term "Caledonia" itself being a Latin word for Scotland. "Caledonia" has been covered by various artists, and is often dubbed Scotland's "unofficial national ...
Dougie MacLean, OBE (born 27 September 1954) [1] [deprecated source] is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer. Described by AllMusic as "one of Scotland's premier singer-songwriters", MacLean has performed both under his own name, and as part of multiple folk bands, since the mid 1970s.
Scotland national football team songs (15 P) Pages in category "Scottish patriotic songs" ... Caledonia (song) Cànan nan Gàidheal; Chì mi na mòrbheanna; F.
Caledonia is a 1978 album by Alan Roberts and Dougie MacLean. [1] It contains the title song " Caledonia " and it was recorded at Fairview Recording Studio and printed by Garrod & Lofthouse. Track listing
Alexander William MacLeod Beaton (July 15, 1944 – May 27, 2022) was a Scottish folk singer and guitarist.He performed across the United States and in Canada, hosted tours to Scotland, [3] [4] and established folk singers as a regular feature at highland games in the United States, beginning with the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in North Carolina.
In Scotland the earliest printed collection of secular music was by publisher John Forbes, produced in Aberdeen in 1662 as Songs and Fancies: to Thre, Foure, or Five Partes, both Apt for Voices and Viols. It was printed three times in the next twenty years, and contained seventy-seven songs, of which twenty-five were of Scottish origin. [9]
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The web series Caledonia and associated novel is a supernatural police drama that takes place in Glasgow, Scotland. [12] [13] Ptolemy's account in his Geography also referred to the Caledonia Silva, an idea still recalled in the modern expression "Caledonian Forest", although the woods are much reduced in size since Roman times. [14] [note 1]