Live Wizardry is an album by Silly Wizard

Silly Wizard

Silly Wizard was a Scottish folk band that began forming in Edinburgh in 1970. The founder members were two like-minded university students—Gordon Jones and Bob Thomas...

 recorded live in concert at Sanders Theatre, Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

 in 1985. Live Wizardry was released by Green Linnet Records

Green Linnet Records

Green Linnet Records was an American independent record label that specialized in Celtic music. Founded by Lisa Null and Patrick Sky as Innisfree Records in 1973, the label was initially based in Null's house in New Canaan, Connecticut. In 1975, the label became Innisfree/Green Linnet and Wendy...

 in 1988 and contained all but two of the tracks released in 1985 on the live albums Golden Golden and Live in America. The omitted tracks are both instrumental medleys: "Mac's Fancy / The Cliffs Of Moher / "The Rose Of Red Hill / Clootie Dumplings / The Laird O' Drumblair / Sleepy Maggie" from Golden Golden and "The Green Fields Of Glentown / The Galtee / Bobby Casey's Number Two / A.B. Corsie (The Lad From Orkney)" from Live in America.

Track listing

1. "Queen of Argyll"
2. "Mrs. Martha Knowles / The Pitnacree Ferryman / The New Bob"
3. "The Parish of Dunkeld
   Dunkeld
   Dunkeld is a small town in Strathtay, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is about 15 miles north of Perth on the eastern side of the A9 road into the Scottish Highlands and on the opposite side of the Tay from the Victorian village of Birnam. Dunkeld and Birnam share a railway station, on the...
   
    / The Curlew"
4. "The Valley of Strathmore
   Strathmore, Angus and Perth & Kinross
   Strathmore is a strath in east central Scotland running from northeast to southwest between the Grampian mountains and the Sidlaws....
   
   "
5. "Miss Shepherd / Sweeny's Buttermilk / McGlinchy's Reels"
6. "The Ramblin' Rover"
7. "Blackbird"
8. "Scarce O'Tatties / Lyndhurst"
9. "The Banks of the Lee"
10. "Donald McGillavry"
11. "Golden, Golden"
12. "The Humours of Tulla / Toss the Feathers / Saint Anne's Reel / Lexy McAskill / The Limerick Lasses / Jean's Reel"
13. "Broom of the Cowdenknowes
    Broom of the Cowdenknowes
    "Broom of the Cowdenknowes" is a traditional Scottish love ballad, Child #217. It is traceable back to the seventeenth century, but the exact origin is unknown. The title of the song references the Scotch Broom flower, a vibrant yellow flower found throughout Scotland, including in Cowdenknowes,...
    
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Releases

Year	Type	Label
1993	CD	Green Linnet
1993	CS	Green Linnet
1993	LP	Green Linnet
1988	LP	Green Linnet

Line-up

• Phil Cunningham
  Phil Cunningham (folk musician)
  Phil Cunningham, MBE, born 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland is a Scottish folk musician and composer.-Biography:Phil played accordion and violin from a very young age. He attended school in Portobello, and was raised Mormon, attending church regularly and playing organ...
  
  : Accordion, vocals, Mandola, flute
• Johnny Cunningham
  Johnny Cunningham
  Johnny Cunningham was a Scottish folk musician. He was a founding member of Silly Wizard, as well as a member of Relativity, The Raindogs, and Nightnoise. Throughout his career, Cunningham was also a fiddler, composer and producer. His younger brother, Phil Cunningham, is a multi-instrumentalist...
  
  : Fiddle
• Andy M. Stewart
  Andy M. Stewart
  Andy M. Stewart is a Scottish singer and songwriter, formerly the frontman for Silly Wizard.Stewart toured with Silly Wizard until the band broke up in 1988. Since then, he has recorded four solo albums, as well as three with Manus Lunny...
  
  : Banjo, lead vocals
• Gordon Jones: Guitar, vocals, Bodhran
• Martin Haddon: Bass, synthesiser