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playing, while Harvey’s poignant air, The Hampshire, marks the centenary
of that vessel’s sinking in 1916. There are some fine songs, too, with a joyful

urgency to Leslie’s composition Fair Winds, the band joined by guest fiddler

Seonaid Aitken, and a fine, piano invoked shimmer around Merry Dancers,
adapted from a Lucy Dougall poem. Jim Gilchrist