Sir Jimmy Shand
The Jimmy Shand Story
Join us for a celebration of the life and music of the legendary Scottish accordion player Jimmy Shand. Jimmy was a Celtic music superstar long before the terms Celtic music or superstar had been coined.
Brandon McPhee the young vituoso British champion recreates the unique Shand 'Hohner Morino' sound including toe tapping renditions of signature tunes such as The Bluebell Polka and Whistling Rufus. Worldwide Jimmy Shand's album sales outsold Elvis Presley and the Beatles put together. Not bad going for the quiet and dignified gentleman from Auchtermuchty!
Show narration by the popular Scottish Dance band leader Ian Cruickshanks.
Spring Drive Auchtermuchty Village Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland video of a Spring drive to Auchtermuchty village on ancestry visit to, Fife. Jimmy Shand, born 28 January 1908, died 23 December 2000, was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. Jimmy was born in East Wemyss in Fife, son of a farm ploughman turned miner and one of nine children. The family soon moved to the burgh of Auchtermuchty. Craig Reid and Charlie Reid better known as The Proclaimers, were born in Leith on 5 March 1962, and grew up in Edinburgh, Cornwall and Auchtermuchty. When they lived in Auchtermuchty they attended Bell Baxter High School.
Winter Morning Drive From Auchtermuchty to Cupar Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a sunny, but cold, Winter morning drive, with music, from Auchtermuchty, East on the A91 road on ancestry visit to Cupar, Fife. After Auchtermuchty the road passes north of Birnie Loch. The road then meets the A92 at Melville Lodges Roundabout before continuing on the A91 road back into the countryside past the Bow of Fife and the Scottish Deer Centre before heading into the royal burgh and county town of Fife, Cupar.
Winter Drive To Parish Church In Auchtermuchty Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a sunny, though cold, Winter road trip drive, with music, North on the B936 road from Falkland through the small village of Dunshalt on ancestry visit to the parish church and cemetery in Auchtermuchty, Fife. Auchtermuchty Church was first consecrated on 31 March 1245. In 1350, Duncan, the last MacDuff and Earl of Fife, gifted it to the Abbey of Lindores, out of gratitude for his escape at the battle of Durham and from subsequent captivity. At the Reformation the parish was placed under the charge of Alexander Fairny, reader, who held that office from 1567 to 1574. The first Protestant minister, one Henry Leitch, was installed in the parish in 1592. The present church was built on a rising in the town in 1780. The video starts in Falkland then turns right at T-junction on the A912 road, before running along a dead straight road, climbing gently before it crosses a narrow bridge over the River Eden into Dunshalt. After several bends the road reaches Auchtermuchty.
Jimmy Shand - Bluebell Polka
All over the world the name Jimmy Shand is identified with Scotland and it`s music. Here he is playing his most well known tune, The Bluebell Polka, with the Jimmy Shand Jnr Band.
This video was recorded in 1994 when Jimmy Shand was aged 86.
He became Sir Jimmy Shand in 1999.
Winter Morning Drive From Cupar To St Andrews Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of a Winter morning, sunny but cold drive, with music, from Cupar East on the A91 road through Dairsie and Guardbridge on ancestry visit to St Andrews, Fife. The A91 meet the A914 just east of Dairsie, then runs through a fairly rural farming area The road then meets the A919 from Leuchars at a roundabout on the west bank of the River Eden at Guardbridge. The road then continues for a few miles then goes along North Street into the university town of St Andrews.
Macduff's Cross Ormiston Hill Newburgh North East Fife Scotland
Tour Scotland travel video of Macduff's Cross located near Ormiston Hill above Newburgh on windy, ancestry visit to North East Fife. According to tradition it marks the spot where the Thane of Fife passed on his way to Auchtermuchty while fleeing from Macbeth. It was erected by King Malcolm III to commemorate the death of Macbeth, died 1057. The inscription along with the shaft were destroyed during the Reformation and only the base remains. Fragments of the original Cross are believed to be built into some of the nearby houses. Although badly damaged in 1559 by the Reformers, the cross is still very much a legendary place of sanctuary for all those of the MacDuff clan who had been involved in murder. Clan Macduff members could achieve atonement by performing a series of rituals. Having touched the MacDuff stone, they would then wash themselves nine times at nearby Ninewells. They would also have to pay a forfeit of nine cows. All that is remaining of Macduff's Cross is a sandstone boulder about 3ft 3ins high by 3ft 6ins wide, roughly cubical, resting on an earthen platform and surrounded by a setting of smaller stones erected by Newburgh Town Council in 1851. The name, currently in popular use, does not occur in local records until 1814. One historian, Skene, wrote in 1641 of the Cross of Clan Makduffe and described the right of sanctuary at the cross for members of the clan. It was described as our ancient.. march stone by Sir Thomas Balfour, who died in 1657.