Sìleas
Sìleas (pronounced sheelis) is a Scottish harp duo. Patsy Seddon plays electric harp and gut-strung harp, and Mary Macmaster plays electric harp and metal-strung harp and they sing in both Gaelic and English. Together they make up part of the all-women folk band The Poozies.
The name of the band is explained on the back cover of the debut album Delighted with harps as follows: Sileas na Ceapaich was an 18th century Gaelic poet - her loving and eloquent praise of harp music led Patsy and Mary to take Sileas as their professional name.
They were inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2013.
Discography
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Podcasts:
Sìleas
ALBUMS
- Play on Light released: 1996
- Harpbreakers released: 1990
- Beating Harps released: 1988
- Delighted With Harps released: 1987
Play on Light
Released 1996- Buain A'Choirce
- May Colvin
- Cumba Easbiug Earraghaidheal
- Laill Leathag
- Cameron MacFadyen / Dr Cameron's Casebook / Miss Kirsten Lindsay Morrison
- Mo Dhomhnullan Fhein
- Planxty Crockery / Domhnall Dubh
- Pi Li Li Liu
- Dr Florence Campbell of Jammalamadugu / Duncan Johnstone
- The Castlebay Scrap / Stuarts Rant
- Ain't No Sunshine / The Flawless Juggler
- Miss Ann Cameron of Balvenie / Amy's Rollerskates / Paddy's Leather Breeches
- Tha Sior Chaoineadh
Delighted With Harps
Released 1987- The Brigs: The North Brig o' Edinburgh (strathspey) / The Brig o' Perth (schottische)
- Cadal Chan Fhaigh Mi (I Can Get No Sleep)
- Reels: Millbrae / The Spey in Spate
- Eppie Morrie
- Air and Reel: The Chanter's Tune / Marry Me Now
- Da Day Dawn
- The Little Cascade
- Tha Mulad
- 'S Coltach Mi Ri Craobh Gun Duilleag / Feadan Glan a' Phiobair
- John Anderson My Jo
- The Judges Dilemma / The Inverness Gathering
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Black Annis
by: SolasWhen Annis built this cage
I saw the blueprint on the table
But I was too young to run
She lured me from my play
To her clandestine domain
To tend her illicit garden
Black, black soul
And Annis takes her toll
And from her veil of black
With all the mirrors at her back
She called me into her guarded empire
I treaded soft and lightly
Fear trembling so slightly
Snows in my bones I dream of the white sea
Chorus:
Black, black soul
And Annis takes her toll
Child of sin
Black Annis wins again
When Annis roared and jeered
I knew that no one leaves from here
Her fervid anger don't spare anything
In the frenzy of my senses
She confiscated my defenses
With all the forces of night
When Annis built this cage
I saw the blueprint on the table
But I was too young to run
She lured me from my play
To her clandestine domain
To tend her illicit garden
(Chorus 2x)