"a result of his experiences of the early 1990s Glaswegian rave and house scenes and his experimentation with numerous types of world music. It was recorded solely by Bennett within his home studio. Bennett explained ""Bothy Culture"" celebrates not only his own country's Gaelic culture and music, but also the music of Islam, for which he held a long-lasting fascination due to its vocals, modes and instrumentation being ""similar in emotion"" to Gaelic music styles, and the music of Scandinavia, which he found to have the same heavy-beat rowdiness and ""solitary sweetness"" of the ceilidh music he played in his"
"Bothy. Bothy A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are to be found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland and Wales. They are particularly common in the Scottish Highlands, but related buildings can be found around the world (for example, in the Nordic countries there are wilderness huts). A bothy was also a semi-legal drinking den in the Isle of Lewis. These, such as ""Bothan Eòrapaidh"", were"
"Bothy A bothy is a basic shelter, usually left unlocked and available for anyone to use free of charge. It was also a term for basic accommodation, usually for gardeners or other workers on an estate. Bothies are to be found in remote mountainous areas of Scotland, Northern England, Northern Ireland and Wales. They are particularly common in the Scottish Highlands, but related buildings can be found around the world (for example, in the Nordic countries there are wilderness huts). A bothy was also a semi-legal drinking den in the Isle of Lewis. These, such as ""Bothan Eòrapaidh"", were used"
"to two-storey cottages. They usually have designated sleeping areas, which commonly are either an upstairs room or a raised platform, thus allowing one to keep clear of cold air and draughts at floor height. No bedding, mattresses or blankets are provided. Public access to bothies is either on foot, by bicycle or boat. Most bothies have a fireplace and are near a natural source of water. A spade may be provided to bury excrement. There are thousands of examples to draw from. A typical Scottish bothy is the Salmon Fisherman's Bothy, Newtonhill, which is perched above the Burn of Elsick"
"until recent years as gathering points for local men and were often situated in an old hut or caravan. The etymology of the word ""bothy"" is uncertain. Suggestions include a relation to both ""hut"" as in Irish ""bothán"" and Scottish Gaelic ""bothan"" or ""bothag""; a corruption of the Welsh term ""bwthyn"", also meaning small cottage; and a derivation from Norse ""būð"", cognate with English ""booth"" with a diminutive ending. Most bothies are ruined buildings which have been restored to a basic standard, providing a windproof and watertight shelter. They vary in size from little more than a large box up"
"Bothy ballad Bothy ballads are songs sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland. Bothies are farm outbuildings, where unmarried labourers used to sleep, often in harsh conditions. In the evening, to entertain themselves, these bothy bands sang. Several Child Ballads that had died out elsewhere in the UK survived until the 1920s, sung by these workers. It was a male-only environment and some songs are obscene. They celebrated ploughmen as lovers (""The Plooman Laddies"", ""My Darling Ploughman Boy""). The farmlands around Aberdeen produced satirical songs, critical of working conditions. The best known is ""The Barnyards of Delgaty"","
"Bothy band A bothy band is a musical group which comes from the farming culture of nineteenth century Scotland. At that time agriculture was relatively labour-intensive. As a result large farms often had a small community associated with them, the farm toun. This was made up of married couples who lived in small cottages and single men who lived together in a ""bothy"", or shelter. In order to entertain themselves and the other members of the toun, the young men of the bothy would hold musical evenings, the ""bothy nichts"", with the music provided by their own impromptu band, the"
"as the Traditional Music and Song Association help to maintain the tradition. Bothy ballad Bothy ballads are songs sung by farm labourers in the northeast region of Scotland. Bothies are farm outbuildings, where unmarried labourers used to sleep, often in harsh conditions. In the evening, to entertain themselves, these bothy bands sang. Several Child Ballads that had died out elsewhere in the UK survived until the 1920s, sung by these workers. It was a male-only environment and some songs are obscene. They celebrated ploughmen as lovers (""The Plooman Laddies"", ""My Darling Ploughman Boy""). The farmlands around Aberdeen produced satirical songs,"
"bothy band. A good band might well become known outside the toun, and be in demand for local events such as dances. Bothy band A bothy band is a musical group which comes from the farming culture of nineteenth century Scotland. At that time agriculture was relatively labour-intensive. As a result large farms often had a small community associated with them, the farm toun. This was made up of married couples who lived in small cottages and single men who lived together in a ""bothy"", or shelter. In order to entertain themselves and the other members of the toun, the"
"Brodie Brodie can be a given name or a surname of Scottish origin, and a location in Moray, Scotland, its meaning is uncertain; it is not clear if Brodie, as a word, has its origins in the Gaelic or Pictish languages. In 2012 this name was the 53rd most popular boys' name in Scotland. The given name can be a male or female name, originating from the surname. The lands of Brodie {Map} are in Scotland, between Morayshire and Nairnshire, on the modern border that separates the Scottish Highlands and Moray. In the time of the Picts (pre 10th century),"
"Bowie (surname) Bowie is a Scottish surname. The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname ""buidhe"", meaning ""yellow"", ""fair-haired"". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname ""Ó Buadhaigh""; this surname means ""descendant of ""Buadhach"""" and is also rendered as Bogue and Boyce. The personal name ""Buadhach"" means ""victorious"". The surname ""Bowie"" is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as Buidheach (masculine) and Bhuidheach (feminine), as well as Mac<nowiki>'</nowiki>IlleBhuidhe (masculine) and Nic<nowiki>'</nowiki>IlleBhuidhe (feminine). Early instances of the surname in Scotland, recorded in 1481, are: ""Boye"", ""Bowy"", and ""Boee"". A family of the surname, the Bowie family, was"
"Corrour Bothy Corrour Bothy is a simple stone building on Mar Lodge Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. It is located below Coire Odhar between The Devil's Point and Cairn Toul on the western side of the River Dee in the Lairig Ghru. The bothy is a single room with a fireplace and chimney in its northern gable. Its dimensions are 6m by 3.6m . There is a toilet in the wooden extension to the building. It is used as a mountain refuge and as a starting point for ascents of Munros including The Devil's Point, Cairn Toul, and Braeriach. The name ""Corrour"""
"ma Scotch blue bell."" Scotch (adjective) Scotch is an adjective meaning ""of Scotland"". The modern usage in Scotland is Scottish or Scots, and the word ""Scotch"" is only applied to specific products, mostly food or drink, such as Scotch whisky, Scotch pie, Scotch broth, and Scotch eggs. ""Scotch"" applied to people is widely considered pejorative in Scotland, reflecting old Anglo-Scottish antagonisms, but it is still occasionally used in England and Ireland, though the usage is considered old-fashioned. The verb ""to scotch"" is unrelated to the adjective. It derives from Anglo-French ""escocher"" meaning ""to notch, nick"", from ""coche"", ""a notch, groove"","
"Buckie High School Buckie High School is a mixed secondary school in Buckie, Moray, Scotland which has a roll of around 900 pupils in years S1 to S6. The school serves the coastal communities of Portgordon, Buckie, Portessie, Findochty, Portknockie and Cullen. There has been a secondary school in Buckie since 1875. The opening followed the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act, which made education compulsory between the ages of 5 and 13 and put education in the charge of 895 school boards. Rathven School Board covered the Buckie area and built Buckie Public School in West Church Street, at its junction"
"""Bothies"" in Scotland, ""koča"" in Slovenia, ""planinarski dom"" in Montenegro, ""chaty"" in Slovakia, ""schroniska"" in Poland, ""refugios"" in Spain, ""hytte"" or ""koie"" in Norway, and ""cabane"" in Romania). Such huts exist at many different heights, including in the high mountains themselves – in extremely remote areas, more rudimentary shelters may exist. The mountain huts are of varying size and quality, but each is typically centred on a communal dining room and have dormitories equipped with mattresses, blankets or duvets, and pillows; guests are expected to bring and use their own sleeping bag liners. The facilities are usually rudimentary, but, given"
"one of the colonial families of Maryland with John Bowie, Sr. being the first Bowie in the colony. Bowie (surname) Bowie is a Scottish surname. The name can be derived from the Gaelic nickname ""buidhe"", meaning ""yellow"", ""fair-haired"". The surname can also be an Anglicised form of the Irish surname ""Ó Buadhaigh""; this surname means ""descendant of ""Buadhach"""" and is also rendered as Bogue and Boyce. The personal name ""Buadhach"" means ""victorious"". The surname ""Bowie"" is rendered in Scottish Gaelic as Buidheach (masculine) and Bhuidheach (feminine), as well as Mac<nowiki>'</nowiki>IlleBhuidhe (masculine) and Nic<nowiki>'</nowiki>IlleBhuidhe (feminine). Early instances of the surname in"
"Buckie Buckie () is a burgh town (defined as such in 1888) on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. Historically in Banffshire, Buckie was the largest town in the county by some thousands of inhabitants before 1975, when the administrative county was abolished. The town is the third largest in the Moray council area after Elgin and Forres and within the definitions of statistics published by the General Register Office for Scotland was ranked at number 75 in the list of population estimates for settlements in Scotland mid-year 2006. Buckie lies virtually equidistant to Banff to the east and Elgin"
"Bute Shinty Club Bute Shinty Club is a shinty club from Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland. It has a reserve team which is in South Division Two. The club has been reconstituted on several occasions since its formation in 1906. There was Bute Camanachd and North Bute Shinty Club: North Bute competed in the first ever Sutherland Cup final in 1923. The club has existed in its present form since 1946. The club won the Sutherland Cup in 1972 and has won the reintroduced Balliemore Cup on four occasions, notably in the first final in 1985 as well as in"
"Buttery (bread) A buttery, also known as a roll, rowie, rollie, or Aberdeen roll, is a Scottish savoury bread roll. Legend has it that the buttery was made for the fishermen sailing from Aberdeen harbour. The theory is that they needed a bread that would not become stale during the two weeks or more that they were at sea. The high fat content meant the bread also provided an immediate energy source. Butteries are noted for their flaky texture and buttery taste, similar to that of a croissant, and slight saltiness. They are often toasted and served with jam or"
"despite a bothy seeming ""unremarkable in itself,"" it nonetheless holds significant importance within Highland culture in that it they were the source of many memorable and important experiences for peoples' lives – ""of gathering and companionship, of togetherness, of conviviality, of sharing stories, music and song. Of communitas."" She felt this was ""at the heart"" of ""Bothy Culture"": ""whether the rhythmic entrainment of the rave or nightclub or the cultural intimacy and conviviality of the bothy, both are a vital a source of this dynamic life force – a feeling of connection to something outside and beyond our own individual,"
"no fuel unless it has been left by previous users. When royal parties are visiting the lodge backpackers are still allowed to stay in the bothy but they are asked to keep discreetly out of the way. Although it is not one of the many bothies in Scotland being maintained by the Mountain Bothies Association in 2017 the Association contributed financially towards considerable improvements. Glas-allt-Shiel Glas-allt-Shiel is a lodge on the Balmoral Estate by the shore of Loch Muick in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In its present form it was built in 1868 by Queen Victoria, who called it Glassalt, to be"
"are quite remote from each other, Caithness in the northeast of Scotland and Buteshire in the southwest. From 1832 to 1918, Buteshire was represented continuously by its own MP. From 1708 to 1832, the Buteshire constituency covered the county of Bute minus the parliamentary burgh of Rothesay, which was a component of the Ayr Burghs constituency. In 1832, Rothesay was merged into the Buteshire constituency. By 1892, Bute had become a local government county and, throughout Scotland, under the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1889, county boundaries had been redefined for all purposes except parliamentary representation. 26 years were to elapse"
"given the Brodies uncertain origin, and the varying ways Brodie has been pronounced/written, these remain but suppositions. Some of the suggestions that have been advanced as to the meaning of the name Brodie are: Brodie coats of arms include: Brodie Brodie can be a given name or a surname of Scottish origin, and a location in Moray, Scotland, its meaning is uncertain; it is not clear if Brodie, as a word, has its origins in the Gaelic or Pictish languages. In 2012 this name was the 53rd most popular boys' name in Scotland. The given name can be a male"
"Torbothie Torbothie is a small area in the town of Shotts, North Lanarkshire. Shotts has an overall population of approximately 8,570. Torbothie has a mixture of properties including council-letted accommodations and private dwellings, a swing park, a Salvation Army Corps, a graveyard, large areas of forestry, a pub, a butcher's shop, a small football ground, and Stane Primary School, as well as a small man made loch called The Voe, also known locally and informally as 'Torbothie Beach.' Torbothie is very close to Springhill and Dykehead, two larger sections of Shotts. Torbothie means ""the bothie on the hill"". There were"
"Rothesay Rothesay () is the principal town on the Isle of Bute, in the council area of Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It can be reached by ferry from Wemyss Bay which offers an onward rail link to Glasgow. At the centre of the town is Rothesay Castle, a ruined castle which dates back to the 13th century, and which is unique in Scotland for its circular plan. Rothesay lies along the coast of the Firth of Clyde. In modern Scottish Gaelic Rothesay is known as ""Baile Bhòid"" meaning ""town of Bute"". The English language name, described as ""Rothersay"" in 1321,"
"Scotch (adjective) Scotch is an adjective meaning ""of Scotland"". The modern usage in Scotland is Scottish or Scots, and the word ""Scotch"" is only applied to specific products, mostly food or drink, such as Scotch whisky, Scotch pie, Scotch broth, and Scotch eggs. ""Scotch"" applied to people is widely considered pejorative in Scotland, reflecting old Anglo-Scottish antagonisms, but it is still occasionally used in England and Ireland, though the usage is considered old-fashioned. The verb ""to scotch"" is unrelated to the adjective. It derives from Anglo-French ""escocher"" meaning ""to notch, nick"", from ""coche"", ""a notch, groove"", extended in English to"
"is a traditional song recorded by the Bothy Band in 1976. ""Bothy Culture"" is the second studio album by Scottish Celtic fusion artist Martyn Bennett. It was released in 1998. Marion Zimmer Bradley used bothies as a pattern for shelters at Hellers mountains in her Darkover novels. The narrator's bothy is the setting for much of the action in the 1996 suspense novel ""To the Hilt"" by Dick Francis. A bothy is featured in the 2013 film ""Under the Skin"". ""The Key-Stone of the Bridge"", a novel by Craig Meggy, is part homage to Robert Burns, set in Ben Alder"
"fountain and a children's playground. The Bothy was built in the shape of a castle sometime in the late 1870s. It is one of the earliest, if not the first, non-Roman concrete structures in England. It is a Grade II listed building . The Bothy garden is maintained by volunteers and is open to visitors monthly during the summer. The main ecological interest is the birdlife, including great spotted woodpeckers, greenfinches, great tits and robins. Frogs breed in the pond. Over ten years the Finchley Society led by Barbara Warren raised funds - the Spike Milligan Statue Fund - to"
"Shand, have helped to dispel this image. In the early 20th century, the melodeon (a variety of diatonic button accordion) was popular among rural folk, and was part of the bothy band tradition. More recently, performers like Phil Cunningham (of Silly Wizard) and Sandy Brechin have helped popularise the accordion in Scottish music. Though bagpipes are closely associated with Scotland by many outsiders, the instrument (or, more precisely, ""family"" of instruments) is found throughout large swathes of Europe, North Africa and South Asia. The most common bagpipe heard in modern Scottish music is the Great Highland Bagpipe, which was spread"
"Ower Bogie Ower Bogie (i.e. over the River Bogie, near Huntly) was an expression used in Scotland for a wedding conducted by a magistrate, not a clergyman. In Aberdeenshire it was synonymous with a Gretna Green wedding in Dumfriesshire. The Bogie was near the boundary of Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. Its origin is unknown, though it is supposed that some accommodating magistrate, at some time or other, resided on the opposite side of the River Bogie from that of the town or village inhabited by the lovers who desired to be joined in the bonds of matrimony without subjecting themselves to"
"Beatty Beatty is a surname of Scottish and Irish origin. In the Scottish case, some have thought that it is derived from the name Bartholomew, which was often shortened to Bate or Baty. Male descendants were then often called Beatty, or similar derivations like Beattie or Beatey. The name Beatty or Beattie, others think, arose in Ireland from Betagh, a surname meaning hospitaller. A majority of people named Beatty or Beattie in Ireland are the descendants of Scots who came over to Ulster in the seventeenth century. Beattie is common in counties Antrim and Down, whilst Beatty is more common"
"River Bogie The River Bogie (), also known as the Water of Bogie, is a river in NW Aberdeenshire in the north east of Scotland. It is noted for its brown trout fishing. Starting with the confluence of the Craig and Corchinan burns near the parish of Auchindoir and Kearn, the River Bogie flows northeast for about 11 miles through Strathbogie to Rhynie and Huntly, immediately after which it joins the River Deveron of which it forms one of the two main tributaries. During the 19th century, the Bogie provided the linen bleachfields of Huntly, then a major textile centre,"
"flute and whistle player Matt Molloy, and fiddle player Paddy Glackin, Ní Dhomhnaill and her brother became charter members. Initially named Seachtar (which is Irish Gaelic for ""seven people""), the group changed its name to the Bothy Band after the departure of MacMahon. As the Bothy Band, the group played its first concert on 2 February 1975, at Trinity College, Dublin. Although they were together for only three years, the Bothy Band were one of the first bands to bring the musical traditions of Ireland up to contemporary standards. While the group experienced numerous personnel changes, Ní Dhomhnaill and her"