Photo Credit: Dana Graham

Centre for Scottish Studies

2021 B.C. Highland Games

September 04, 2021
Print

Hidden Stories of the Jacobites: The “Lyon in Mourning” Manuscript of Robert Forbes

Leith Davis (Director, Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Scottish Studies) with Sheila Allan (fiddle), Scott Alpen (bodhran), and Rob McGregor (octave mandolin)

Programme

Band: Dashing White Sergeant/Fairy Reel

Introduction

Band: Charlie He’s My Darling

1. From the “Journal of the Prince's imbarkation and arrival” “the greatest part of which was taken from Duncan Cameron at several different conversations I had with him”

Band: Atholl Highlanders

2. From the “Journal of the Prince's imbarkation and arrival” and Charles’s letter to his father, James Stuart, after the battle of Gladsmuir/Prestonpans   

Band: Miss Thompson’s D/Miss Shepherd’s

3. Testimony by Mrs. Robertson, Lady Inches, from a conversation with Forbes taken down Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 25, 1747,

Band: Mist Covered Mountains

4. Testimony of Donald MacLeod

Band: The new Rigg’d Ship

5. From the “Journal taken from the mouth of MISS FLORA MACDONALD by DR. BURTON of YORK, when in Edinburgh”

Band: Over the Sea to Skye

6. Letter to Forbes from Anne Leith

Band: Mrs. Jamieson’s Favourite

7. The story of Anne McKay

Band: Temple Hill/Miss McLeod’s

8. Conclusion:

Soldier’s Joy/Red-Haired Boy

 

Images from "The Lyon in Mourning" and More Images from the 2021 B.C. Highland Games

Photo Credit: Dana Graham
Photo Credit: Dana Graham
Photo Credit: Dana Graham