As long as you remember that you must make your own mark in this world and don't get arrogant, it is great to be proud of your family. Your heritage. But you can not live in their shadow. Their achievements are theirs as well as their failures.
I love the Scots Irish music...I am England,Ireland ,and scottish.sir Walter Scot is in family on my father's side...I wrote to an Irishman for six years.he died from car accident. I read poetry to the public at Springfield I'll.one year.lincolns tomb..it was beautiful out that morning...over on the hillside was a funeral going on.bagpipes were being played.it was beautiful
Ive recently became fascinated with the appalachian ppl. Me being an afro american I have roots in the deep south because that's practically where all of us are from, I don't know much about the appalachian south though, I'd like to visit one day I'm fascinated by their culture and we actually some similarities.
@@AllenCrawford3 ive heard of the melungeons but haven't done any deep research into them. Thats cool. Your family history is cool too bro. You still in appalachia? I wanna do one if those dna tests too. You did the 23andme?
Maybe next year you should go to the Philadelphia Folk Festival to see many types of music. Every evening the show would start with a Bagpiper, that makes my Scot Irish German heart weep. All people from all over the world have influenced the music. My husband calls it Folk Music. I haven’t been for a number of years. My first time was 1986 pregnant with my daughter.
I grew up in the Appalachian Mountain area. We called this hillbilly music. My mom loved it. She never knew she was Scott-Irish. Im proud to know they were my ancestors.
The sound of the Uilleann pipes is beautiful, as is the sound of the Scottish Highland Bagpipes. I have about an equal amount of the music of both, as I enjoy listening to both. Although they're similar, they're also different in some ways.
A mistake, Mark Wilson says Leslie Riddle who helped A. P. Carter collect songs was Irish, no, he was African American. www.encyclopediaofappalachia.com/entry.php?rec=14
This community has been the best! We have really clung together and helped each other. I look forward to seeing everyone every day! Thank you for building this community!
Thank you for this video!!! You are telling about my heritage, love hearing the pipes and drums, though I wasn't raised Scottish. The earliest known granfather was born an Ulster-Scot in 1720. He and two older brothers emmigrated to the colonies in 1729. They were Presbyterians and farmed in Lancaster and Bucks Counties. Later my grandfather married a Ulster-Scot colonist, they had 17 children. He moved his family a little south, but mostly west to Washington County, PA. They farmed and had a sawmill. I've watched this video many times and read down through many comments, thank to all who contributed to making the video and those who have commented.
Joe Smith Me too. And I'm damned proud of it. There are millions of us in this country. My family came from Ulster in 1700 to North Carolina. They fought in the Revolution at Kings' Mountain. They even received land grants in Tennessee for their service. No Ellis Islanders in my family.
Mine neither. My family in 1749 landed in Baltimore (from Norfolk by way of Scotland) and headed for South Carolina. The other half went to North Carolina from Ulster and became traders. This half married into the Shawnee.
on my father's side his family came from South Carolina and my mother's her family came from North Carolina and both have told us kids they were both Scot-Irish.
Great video my family surname Douglas, came from Scotland in 1700s. We still live at Mason Dixon like where my ancestors settled all those years ago. My great parents knew patsy cline personally, her father was from 15 min from her and her home winchester only about 35 min. Excellent vid
I love the pipe and drum music! It's so powerful. I can understand why it has a military tradition. Hearing that coming before you even see the force allied against you must have been unnerving on the battlefield! That is before the roar of the tanks and droning of the aircraft overhead drowned it out.
My sister, RIP, was an incredible Irish folk singer. She sang those songs perfectly as she played either banjo, fiddle, or guitar. My mother's side of the family descend from Belfast and the Lowlands, so it was no shock to me watching this knowing the sound and the songs of my people.
Just wanted to say: if 'your people" hit ground here before 1760 and NOW you-all ended up in the west- Idaho, etc. Then you are probably EVERYTHING: English, German, Dutch, French, Scando, Indian & African. And maybe 1/128th Scots Irish. THAT'S ME
What? The scot irish went to war with the siberians they didn't fuck em today scots irish don't have Siberian DNA stop trying to insery POC into white american history and culture
I’m from northern Scotland also with some Irish ancestry. I play fiddle and have done my whole life. And it’s so hard to teach these styles of playing to people outside our traditions., it’s like it’s in our blood. We’re a hardy people, disciplined and hard working. ‘Thrang’ is the word for it.
My paternal ancestors moved from France to Scotland to Ireland (Ballymena in county Antrim). In the 1800s some traveled to the U.S. There are many Gastons still in Northern Ireland.
My wife's a Wilson. Family is from western Pennsylvania via Philadelphia, Co. Down, and near Wigtown in Galloway, Scotland. Appreciated the last segment mentioning Presbyterian churches. I was the temporary minister in charge at the Dervock Reformed Presbyterian Church in Co. Antrim in the summer of 1995. A musical influence in church would have been the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalms.
I live in western N.C and the area I live was settled by mostly Scots Irish . It's where I feel most at home and I can't see leaving it but my bloodline is from the Uster section and I would like to visit.
Its not entirely true to call it scots Irish the scots never went out of Ulster when they were in ireland.all round where i live there are andersons Robinson's chambers simpsons Scott's mc dowell mcCall McCaw adair Mcewen Watson's Grahams Maharg to mention a few. So thats why we call them Ulster Scots Ireland and Ulster to separate entities.
God bless you! I grew up in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. I absolutely love bluegrass music. I have a good bit of Irish in me. Folks call it hillbilly music Wich I consider that an honor.. I went to Crossville, Tennessee in the mid 90 's . Went to a bluegrass festival. What a great time. Keep up the great journey.
I knew there was a tie there. I just love the music and picked up the accordion myself when I was young. My Scott-Irish ancestors came through the mountains and went west to Indiana over several generations. Then my parents came to TN when I was little and in time drifted back to the mountains again, becoming a small scale timber harvester/sawmiller and farmer.
My maternal grandmother was Scotts-Irish and growing up in the foothills of West Virginia it is is probably the part of my heritage I identify with the most.
FWIW, I understand that the term "Hillbilly" derives from William of Orange who sent many of the fiercely Presbyterian and fiercely independent Rievers From the border lands first to Ulster (from whence derives the term "Orangemen"?) and from there they migrated to America which is where this story picks up.
Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain in NC, has been going for years & years, with over 30,000 attending each year, is the second largest Scots-Irish gathering worldwide 😁 Can't believe he missed that haha! Proud Irish, McDaniel/McDonnel-Mac Domhnaill bloodline.
My Scots-Irish ancestors came along this route in the 1720s, the Great Wagon Road. They branched off into Kentucky, where my ancestor, John Campbell joined the Regular Army and was deployed to Missouri where he served as an officer before and during the war of 1812 in operations against British and Native American insurgents.
Charlotte? You drove right through the highlands of Western North Carolina bypassing everything from Franklin, Asheville and even the Scottish highland games of grandfather mountain, arguably the largest Scottish highland game organized in the world. You had to try and miss it by going around them. Some of the purest Appalachian culture still exists in that region by a people who take pride in the old ways. The music, the food, and even much of the old dialect. Try again.
I thought, why the city, why Charlotte? I agree that Grandfather Mountain would have been perfect. My ancestors are from western NC, namely Allegheny, Alexander, and Wilkes Counties, dating back to the early 1700s. Anyplace in those areas would have been more fitting, but I suppose the BBC wanted to tie Scots-Irish to something more modern and refined in the end of the program. I still have family in Wilkes County and I need to get myself back there post haste. Seeing the hills this host drives right past makes me cry for home.
australias second favorite tune next to "the jolly swagman" is "the wild colonial boy"....an irish tune about an irish lad that sound like so many irish tunes from the 1800's....these things never die.
Check out Frank Fahey's research on the Wild Colonial boy, who was actually Australian., the Clancy brothers got the Irish myth into circulation during the folk boom of the 1960s.
@@Kitiwake Look up Larrikin Records . The owner has done extensive research into Australian Folk Songs, he even found the triakl details of Jack Duggan. Seems he was born in Australia to Irish parents.
At the end the Hillbilly Gypsies are singing a dark song of murderous love, "Pretty Polly." For an amazing version of this see Patti Loveless singing with Ralph Stanley at the Grand Ole Opry easily found on youtube.
Most of my fathers side moved to Appalachia, my surname is rare in the UK/NI but common in the USA. So many left due to Poverty and Famine that theres few left here. One of my US ancestors led the USA through WWII. I'm proud to play Ulster Scots music like my father.
Nice documentary. Next time you are in the USA, you might wish to consider timing your trip to attend the Galax Fiddlers Convention. The are perhaps a 100 bands that perform Old time and Bluegrass music...That's the place to hear the Scot Irish influence!
Grandfather Mountain memories, bagpipes echo gently into the distances of the last campfires glow and the wind carries us gently, by song, smell and scent.
I'm proud of my Scots Irish heritage and honestly, the United States wouldn't be the same without that heritage. Nowadays though, the United States is a lot superior to those countries.
I thought Scots-Irish were Scots/Scottish people who had escaped persecution in Scotland by fleeing to Northern Ireland. Also, the Royal Stewart’s were given large parcels of land in Northern Ireland when they were forced to leave Scotland. Many Scottish were also referred to as the Quaker Scots Irish or the Presbyterian Scots Irish because they had been persecuted in Scotland, had fled to Northern Ireland, and then came to the Colonies in America. They weren’t typically of Irish blood/DNA, but mostly, that’s the last country where they had lived prior to arriving in America. In regards to being Celtic... the Scottish, Irish, and Welch are all Celtic, plus I think the people from Cornwall are also Celtic. Cornwall is below Wales.
"it would be unfair to say that the Scots and the Irish invented country music all on their own; there was influence from the Dutch and the German!"... aaaand the Africans.
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@@joebyrne3159 Maybe look it up. It’s the reason bluegrass and country music exist. It came from Africans, which this “documentary” didn’t want to share lol.
There seems to be some misunderstanding reading the comments. Scots-Irish means your ancestors came from the Ulster region of Ireland in the north of the island. They were primarily Protestant.
I am Ulster Scot with a Gaelic Norse background. My folks were kicked out of Scotia in the 1690's and the nobility of Clan McIver (McEver) were all killed . . . we were told. Some may have escaped to Ulster or the Colonies but none has stepped forward to the Lord of the Lyon to validate the old clan.
I have attended my family's reunion of McEvers... I am both Scotch & Irish, and heavy on Cherokee on both my grandparents sides. Wolfords, White, et al.
My Great Grandparents were Scots-Irish. My children are now 7th generation Pennsylvanians in SW Pennsylvania, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh. I was very fortunate to know my Great Grandparents. Oh my, how my Great Grandfather could Clog Dance. I am so proud of my heritage and I continue to tend their graves to this day. Tough and wonderful people. 🤩
The Irish will never rise above anything more than one of the sections of the "British Isles' when described by British historians. Their influence on National Public Radio starting as far back as the 1970's promoted the myth of a group of music loving "celts" that somehow settled there . Fionna Ritchie and her accent as well as many other music shows of the era mostly on NPR enabled and promoted the myth of Irish music in the hills.
Fiona Ritchie is Scottish, not Irish, and I think you have not researched your facts well. Her book is well researched, and if she doesn't promote it, how will anyone know it exists? It was published by University of North Carolina, not by one of the huge conglomerate-owned publishing houses.
Arkybark She is Scottish, and it's a lot different than being Irish historically. Deidre Daithi compiled virtually every major known Irish song or poem in Irish for the last 300 years in her "Poems of the Disspossed" for Bord na Gaelige about 30 years ago. Hundreds of songs from all of the great poets and anonymous folk tunes that tell the sad story of Irelands" struggle with the invader. Amount of times anything from this was heard on "Thistles and Shamrocks? =0. Instead the perpetuation of the myth of music loving "Celts" in the hills of the south.
Thistle and Shamrock is a program for American audiences, who are largely oblivious to the constant ethnic conflicts still leaving their stamp on other regions of the world. Whether you or I think this is good or bad is probably not all that relevant to other people. But I don't understand what you have to criticize about Fiona Rtichie's book (with Doug Orr), which - correct me if I'm wrong - I suspect you have not bought or read. I bought it a few months ago and find it well researched, although I am not nearly finished reading it. It is, of course, impossible to please everyone all the time.
+Robert Kelly The level of ignorance in your comment astounds me. We don't care about them? We don't care about the origins of men and women who's lives directly impacted that of our own? I've no doubt the world believes us capable of it. If you'd bother to do your research you would know that we as a whole embrace our heritage, and the men and women of the Appalachian's do so even more. If you ever get that chip off your shoulder, maybe you can come visit and see for yourself one day.
@@joebyrne3159 the irish got it from scotland. the actual home of bluegrass music. fiddle reel music is indigenous to scotland not ireland. it was scots who introduced the fiddle to ireland . in the 1700s irish fiddlers came over to scotland to learn the fiddle taking many scottish reel tunes and strathpeys back to ireland.
@@brucecollins4729 1am Scoti was an Irish Clan that went to Alba, that later became Scotland! The Irish Monks brought Whiskey over to Scotland! The oldest bagpipes in Ireland are over 4,000 years old!
@@joebyrne3159 the scoti coming from ireland to scotland is myth . there is no factual or physical evidence to support this. never been taught in scottish schools ,never will be. once again, the irish monks bringing whisky over to iona is myth, nothing else. the worlds oldest whisky still is in fife in a wee village called lindores. jamesons world famous irish whiskey. well , jameson was a scotsman who went over to ireland to manage a distillery that was built owned and operated by another scotsman called stein. both of them were married into the haig family, also scottish who had 2 or3 distilleries in ireland. you might want to check out guinness.
All modern music with its syncopated rhythm comes from Scots-Irish music. Blues, R&B, Rock, Hiphop, all of its origins come from Scots-Irish songs in the American south.
Plenty of Scotch/Irish here in Arkansas especially in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. We have the same rich bluegrass hillbilly culture as Appalachia,many came from there.
The Hillbilly Piper - I had ancestors (Sawreys) from Arkansas who I thought were Scotch-Irish, but I’m not certain. Probably most Americans whose American roots go back several generations have some Scotch-Irish.
@@GH-oi2jf Sawrey is a English surname. The term ''scotch-Irish'' doesn't mean you have Irish ancestry and scottish. I don't how many people get those things confused and think their Irish ancestor were scots-Irish.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 Having an English (technically Anglish) surname is quite common for Scots-Irish; the protestants in England were kicked out and "settled" in Ulster Plantation, Ireland, where there were the protestants from Scotland. So the people are a mix of Celtic-Scottish and Danish-English. Many surnames passed down, but the people integrated with the Scottish community in Ireland. @Gh1618 is probably Scot Irish if that's what their family says.
@@shellc6743 Scotch is an archaic form of Scots....or Scots is the more modern usage. Scotch just means Scottish (looked it up in my Scots dictionary). It's an ethnonym which originated in the Unted States. Many of my mother's people are Scotch-Irish. That's the term they used my whole life. That's the term they'd use when describing their ethnicty if they didn't say "American." Remember the name came about long before modern usage, so it's a bit archaic. The Protestant settlers in North Ireland call themselves Ulster Scots or Ulster Irish, not Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish. So don't worry so much. The people named themselves. Use Scots-Irish if you like, but don't get upset when people use their own name for themselves.
How I miss that Northern Irish accent, my Grandfather was born in Belfast, generations before him his great-great uncles went to America and ended up in Utah and Texas, my Grandad came to Canada, he brought his love of music and that lovely Irish accent with him.
I love this series. It is the story of my family. My family were Quakers and came over from Ireland in the mid to late 1700's. They landed in PA and then over the years migrated south. My father was from AL. The family tree, if it's correct, goes back to the 900's in Scotland when a King came from Norway and claimed the throne of Scotland. My DNA is Scottish, Irish, English, Germany (English and German are my mother's side), Norway,. When I was in the Navy I spent two and half years in Scotland. I didn't know it then, but where I was living I could see the town Greenock, that my future wife's family came from. They immigrated to the US in the late 1800's.
@@nielsdodo7059 There were Irish and scottish immigrants who went to the appalachians, and then later the Scotch-irish as well. Throughout history, the Scotch-Irish and the Irish have always been at odds with one another, as the Scotch-Irish were Protestant 'orange order' types, and the Irish were Catholics...
WATCH THIS VIDEO! I just uploaded a UA-cam video which compares rare traditional recordings of Appalachian traditional music with ancient British ballads. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/mUGoWwGKwSA/v-deo.html Feel free to explore my channel for more content about traditional music!
@@princekermit0 My Scotch Irish Ancestors look more Cherokee than European. I have that little lump on the back of my skull that identifies me as Cherokee.
I have watched this over and over again...I cannot describe how proud and happy this makes me.
Why proud? Did you do something special?
As long as you remember that you must make your own mark in this world and don't get arrogant, it is great to be proud of your family. Your heritage.
But you can not live in their shadow. Their achievements are theirs as well as their failures.
Parkhurst is 100% English.
Amen. I would agree wholeheartedly.
@@s.leemccauley7302Our achievements and failures are our own, too.
I love the Scots Irish music...I am England,Ireland ,and scottish.sir Walter Scot is in family on my father's side...I wrote to an Irishman for six years.he died from car accident.
I read poetry to the public at Springfield I'll.one year.lincolns tomb..it was beautiful out that morning...over on the hillside was a funeral going on.bagpipes were being played.it was beautiful
I am English and Welsh with my roots thanks for your story interesting to read
she sounds just like pasty cline what a beautiful strong voice she has !!she did sweet dreams the best cover I've ever heard! God bless 🔱👑
@stephen turner probably from cornwall LOL
When I first read this I thought a pasty cline was Irish slang for a woman that doesn’t go in the sun! Lol
Ive recently became fascinated with the appalachian ppl. Me being an afro american I have roots in the deep south because that's practically where all of us are from, I don't know much about the appalachian south though, I'd like to visit one day I'm fascinated by their culture and we actually some similarities.
@@AllenCrawford3 ive heard of the melungeons but haven't done any deep research into them. Thats cool. Your family history is cool too bro. You still in appalachia? I wanna do one if those dna tests too. You did the 23andme?
Maybe next year you should go to the Philadelphia Folk Festival to see many types of music. Every evening the show would start with a Bagpiper, that makes my Scot Irish German heart weep. All people from all over the world have influenced the music. My husband calls it Folk Music. I haven’t been for a number of years. My first time was 1986 pregnant with my daughter.
Rhiannon giddens. Please look her up
@@hollyjobitner3285 that sounds cool. I'll try to go to Philly for it. Do you know if they have an event like that in Chicago?
@@supersix24 Shes cold wit it I've watched her before.
Mark Wilson , excellent work, high culture, preserving the scot-irish customs, from Brasil , muito obrigado (thanks)
I grew up in the Appalachian Mountain area. We called this hillbilly music. My mom loved it. She never knew she was Scott-Irish. Im proud to know they were my ancestors.
My great grandmother was born in Ireland in 1840 Those pipes will reach you deep inside.
Proud your ancestors colonised ulster and displaced the catholic Irish natives?
@@thevis5465 yeah. sounds pretty chad to me.
@@thevis5465 I feel bad for your 'friends'
The sound of the Uilleann pipes is beautiful, as is the sound of the Scottish Highland Bagpipes. I have about an equal amount of the music of both, as I enjoy listening to both. Although they're similar, they're also different in some ways.
A mistake, Mark Wilson says Leslie Riddle who helped A. P. Carter collect songs was Irish, no, he was African American. www.encyclopediaofappalachia.com/entry.php?rec=14
This community has been the best! We have really clung together and helped each other. I look forward to seeing everyone every day! Thank you for building this community!
Thank you for this video!!! You are telling about my heritage, love hearing the pipes and drums, though I wasn't raised Scottish. The earliest known granfather was born an Ulster-Scot in 1720. He and two older brothers emmigrated to the colonies in 1729. They were Presbyterians and farmed in Lancaster and Bucks Counties. Later my grandfather married a Ulster-Scot colonist, they had 17 children. He moved his family a little south, but mostly west to Washington County, PA. They farmed and had a sawmill.
I've watched this video many times and read down through many comments, thank to all who contributed to making the video and those who have commented.
I am Scotts-Irish and damned proud of it
Joe Smith I won't be lending you money then
Joe Smith Me too. And I'm damned proud of it. There are millions of us in this country. My family came from Ulster in 1700 to North Carolina. They fought in the Revolution at Kings' Mountain. They even received land grants in Tennessee for their service. No Ellis Islanders in my family.
yes my family came from South Carolina in the 1700 and always been told we were Scot-Irish.
Mine neither. My family in 1749 landed in Baltimore (from Norfolk by way of Scotland) and headed for South Carolina. The other half went to North Carolina from Ulster and became traders. This half married into the Shawnee.
on my father's side his family came from South Carolina and my mother's her family came from North Carolina and both have told us kids they were both Scot-Irish.
Great video my family surname Douglas, came from Scotland in 1700s. We still live at Mason Dixon like where my ancestors settled all those years ago. My great parents knew patsy cline personally, her father was from 15 min from her and her home winchester only about 35 min. Excellent vid
I ❤ your music,thank you for sharing . God bless you and yours❤
Perfect gold, man. A Masterpiece of cultural history.
linda lay's voice. wow..God Bless That Fab voice!
English and Scottish folk ballads were also influential in the development of the blues
I love the pipe and drum music! It's so powerful. I can understand why it has a military tradition. Hearing that coming before you even see the force allied against you must have been unnerving on the battlefield! That is before the roar of the tanks and droning of the aircraft overhead drowned it out.
My sister, RIP, was an incredible Irish folk singer. She sang those songs perfectly as she played either banjo, fiddle, or guitar. My mother's side of the family descend from Belfast and the Lowlands, so it was no shock to me watching this knowing the sound and the songs of my people.
Just wanted to say: if 'your people" hit ground here before 1760 and NOW you-all ended up in the west- Idaho, etc. Then you are probably EVERYTHING: English, German, Dutch, French, Scando, Indian & African. And maybe 1/128th Scots Irish. THAT'S ME
These are my roots!
Scotts-Irish that married into Native roots in the 1600's descendant. Now back up in the hills of the Carolina's. Everything is full circle.
What? The scot irish went to war with the siberians they didn't fuck em today scots irish don't have Siberian DNA stop trying to insery POC into white american history and culture
@ Bunyan Correct! You could also call them Beringians as they came across the Bering Straights.
I’m from northern Scotland also with some Irish ancestry. I play fiddle and have done my whole life. And it’s so hard to teach these styles of playing to people outside our traditions., it’s like it’s in our blood. We’re a hardy people, disciplined and hard working.
‘Thrang’ is the word for it.
Beautiful history. I love Patsy Cline. Country music, solid gold roots are wonderful.
Well done Mark Wilson..
Thank you for sharing! God bless everyone
My family line is Scots-Irish (McKelvey or McKelvey). Great historical value for me personally. Thank You.
Thank ya for sharing this a friend is from Scotland and I have Irish ansestors ❤️👏🙂❤️👏🙂❤️👏🙂
My paternal ancestors moved from France to Scotland to Ireland (Ballymena in county Antrim). In the 1800s some traveled to the U.S. There are many Gastons still in Northern Ireland.
Brilliant, great history.
Stan Sloan ex East Belfast, 10/5/17.
Wonderful Music!
My wife's a Wilson. Family is from western Pennsylvania via Philadelphia, Co. Down, and near Wigtown in Galloway, Scotland.
Appreciated the last segment mentioning Presbyterian churches. I was the temporary minister in charge at the Dervock Reformed Presbyterian Church in Co. Antrim in the summer of 1995.
A musical influence in church would have been the 1650 Scottish Metrical Psalms.
Superb documentary, Mark. Loved every minute of it. Well done!
I live in western N.C and the area I live was settled by mostly Scots Irish . It's where I feel most at home and I can't see leaving it but my bloodline is from the Uster section and I would like to visit.
Its not entirely true to call it scots Irish the scots never went out of Ulster when they were in ireland.all round where i live there are andersons Robinson's chambers simpsons Scott's mc dowell mcCall McCaw adair Mcewen Watson's Grahams Maharg to mention a few. So thats why we call them Ulster Scots Ireland and Ulster to separate entities.
God bless you! I grew up in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. I absolutely love bluegrass music. I have a good bit of Irish in me. Folks call it hillbilly music Wich I consider that an honor.. I went to Crossville, Tennessee in the mid 90 's . Went to a bluegrass festival. What a great time. Keep up the great journey.
My folks ended up in Green County Tennessee on edge of Smokey Mountians. They were German and Scott's. 1790. Still there
I knew there was a tie there. I just love the music and picked up the accordion myself when I was young. My Scott-Irish ancestors came through the mountains and went west to Indiana over several generations. Then my parents came to TN when I was little and in time drifted back to the mountains again, becoming a small scale timber harvester/sawmiller and farmer.
Scottish*
Wonderful video!!! Thanks for creating and sharing!
Wonderful video, Mark... Thanks!!
WHAT AN AWESOME VOICE LOVE IT
Of Scotc/irish/Welsh descent , I feel a deep kinship with these people and their culture.
LOVELY, MARVELLOUS, INTERESTING, & BEAUTIFUL. LOVE.
My (Gray's) are from Stanley,VA. Near Luray. Beautiful Country and History!!!
Nice documentary. Make some more
My maternal grandmother was Scotts-Irish and growing up in the foothills of West Virginia it is is probably the part of my heritage I identify with the most.
So refreshing to see someone can really drum.
FWIW, I understand that the term "Hillbilly" derives from William of Orange who sent many of the fiercely Presbyterian and fiercely independent Rievers From the border lands first to Ulster (from whence derives the term "Orangemen"?) and from there they migrated to America which is where this story picks up.
I love this! ....
Your welcome anytime. God bless the Southland.
Thank You🤝👍
Highland Games at Grandfather Mountain in NC, has been going for years & years, with over 30,000 attending each year, is the second largest Scots-Irish gathering worldwide 😁 Can't believe he missed that haha! Proud Irish, McDaniel/McDonnel-Mac Domhnaill bloodline.
beautiful doc..
Love my people and our music.
My Scots-Irish ancestors came along this route in the 1720s, the Great Wagon Road. They branched off into Kentucky, where my ancestor, John Campbell joined the Regular Army and was deployed to Missouri where he served as an officer before and during the war of 1812 in operations against British and Native American insurgents.
Charlotte? You drove right through the highlands of Western North Carolina bypassing everything from Franklin, Asheville and even the Scottish highland games of grandfather mountain, arguably the largest Scottish highland game organized in the world. You had to try and miss it by going around them. Some of the purest Appalachian culture still exists in that region by a people who take pride in the old ways. The music, the food, and even much of the old dialect. Try again.
I thought, why the city, why Charlotte? I agree that Grandfather Mountain would have been perfect. My ancestors are from western NC, namely Allegheny, Alexander, and Wilkes Counties, dating back to the early 1700s. Anyplace in those areas would have been more fitting, but I suppose the BBC wanted to tie Scots-Irish to something more modern and refined in the end of the program. I still have family in Wilkes County and I need to get myself back there post haste. Seeing the hills this host drives right past makes me cry for home.
Really good!
australias second favorite tune next to "the jolly swagman" is "the wild colonial boy"....an irish tune about an irish lad that sound like so many irish tunes from the 1800's....these things never die.
Check out Frank Fahey's research on the Wild Colonial boy, who was actually Australian., the Clancy brothers got the Irish myth into circulation during the folk boom of the 1960s.
@@tipptoggy the wild colonial boy was an Aboriginal??
@@Kitiwake Look up Larrikin Records . The owner has done extensive research into Australian Folk Songs, he even found the triakl details of Jack Duggan. Seems he was born in Australia to Irish parents.
@@tipptoggy Soit wasn't an "Irish myth" then.
Thank you.
Great music and culture
Was born in Staunton an raised in a small area called Stuart's draft
At the end the Hillbilly Gypsies are singing a dark song of murderous love, "Pretty Polly." For an amazing version of this see Patti Loveless singing with Ralph Stanley at the Grand Ole Opry easily found on youtube.
Love that video. Especially when patty carries that note out. The doctor didn’t know what’s to think.
Thanks for sharing :-D
Most of my fathers side moved to Appalachia, my surname is rare in the UK/NI but common in the USA. So many left due to Poverty and Famine that theres few left here.
One of my US ancestors led the USA through WWII. I'm proud to play Ulster Scots music like my father.
Greame Mcg It's Jewish. Yisrael is Yiddish for Israel.
Fabulous video!
Bummer this is in only 240p
I was really looking forward to listening in a higher quality.
And the Scots-Irish blessed us with whiskey and bourbon along with 'white lightning' and 'corn squeezins'.
This is AWESOME!
Ulsterscotch family here 🥰
Nice documentary. Next time you are in the USA, you might wish to consider timing your trip to attend the Galax Fiddlers Convention. The are perhaps a 100 bands that perform Old time and Bluegrass music...That's the place to hear the Scot Irish influence!
Grandfather Mountain memories, bagpipes echo gently into the distances of the last campfires glow and the wind carries us gently, by song, smell and scent.
I enjoyed this video very much! Nicely done>
I'm proud of my Scots Irish heritage and honestly, the United States wouldn't be the same without that heritage. Nowadays though, the United States is a lot superior to those countries.
I thought Scots-Irish were Scots/Scottish people who had escaped persecution in Scotland by fleeing to Northern Ireland. Also, the Royal Stewart’s were given large parcels of land in Northern Ireland when they were forced to leave Scotland. Many Scottish were also referred to as the Quaker Scots Irish or the Presbyterian Scots Irish because they had been persecuted in Scotland, had fled to Northern Ireland, and then came to the Colonies in America. They weren’t typically of Irish blood/DNA, but mostly, that’s the last country where they had lived prior to arriving in America.
In regards to being Celtic... the Scottish, Irish, and Welch are all Celtic, plus I think the people from Cornwall are also Celtic. Cornwall is below Wales.
"it would be unfair to say that the Scots and the Irish invented country music all on their own; there was influence from the Dutch and the German!"... aaaand the Africans.
How did you figure out this? No Germans living in Scotland or Ireland! As for African, what did they do for Irish /Scots music?
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@@joebyrne3159 They gave us the banjo and the minor third.
@@joebyrne3159 Maybe look it up. It’s the reason bluegrass and country music exist. It came from Africans, which this “documentary” didn’t want to share lol.
I'm from the Milliken clan. My father's family located in Tennessee.
Lesley Riddle (the musician who influenced the Carter family) was African American, not an Ulster Scot.
Thanks for pointing this out. Huge error on the part of the filmmakers.
When I hear the fiddles, it sounds like the pipes..I've always thought the the fiddle replaced the pipes when the bags finally wore out..
They didn't leave many place names there all English. So it seems to me the English settled these places first in big numbers.
Very true. Lets just airbrush them out and create a false history. Even the surnames are mainly English.
This is sweet.
Awesome
Me miserable old granny in West Virginia was Scotch-Irish. She bathed daily in Vick's Vapo Rub.
Was she a Whisky or a pie?
Scotts-Irish (ulster Scots) are brave Protestants, and they never surrender
Haza that is very true, they never surrender
I think it means Scots and Irish from both nations, not just Ulster Scots. Write Scots/Irish if you must.
Apart from the good friday agreement they surrendered there
Haza you are damn right. I live in central Illinois and my relatives are farmers and that’s the way we all are
For the moment !!
Staunton is pronounced "Stanton". No idea why. Love this video.
Interesting video! Might it be available in a better quality? 240P doesn't do it justice. Thanks.
There seems to be some misunderstanding reading the comments. Scots-Irish means your ancestors came from the Ulster region of Ireland in the north of the island. They were primarily Protestant.
I am Ulster Scot with a Gaelic Norse background. My folks were kicked out of Scotia in the 1690's and the nobility of Clan McIver (McEver) were all killed . . . we were told. Some may have escaped to Ulster or the Colonies but none has stepped forward to the Lord of the Lyon to validate the old clan.
I have attended my family's reunion of McEvers... I am both Scotch & Irish, and heavy on Cherokee on both my grandparents sides. Wolfords, White, et al.
Great!!!
Not Irish or Scottish, but I respect and admire the peoples. I really enjoyed this program...very informative.
😊 Thank you.
Mark, you need to visit Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, you would recognize the accents and music.
My Great Grandparents were Scots-Irish. My children are now 7th generation Pennsylvanians in SW Pennsylvania, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh. I was very fortunate to know my Great Grandparents. Oh my, how my Great Grandfather could Clog Dance. I am so proud of my heritage and I continue to tend their graves to this day. Tough and wonderful people. 🤩
Patsy had a great voice that girl comes pretty damn close
The English built churches, the Germans built barns,, the Scots-Irish brought the Uisce-bagh (Whiskey).
The Irish will never rise above anything more than one of the sections of the "British Isles' when described by British historians. Their influence on National Public Radio starting as far back as the 1970's promoted the myth of a
group of music loving "celts" that somehow settled there . Fionna Ritchie and her accent as well as many other
music shows of the era mostly on NPR enabled and promoted the myth of Irish music in the hills.
Fiona Ritchie is Scottish, not Irish, and I think you have not researched your facts well. Her book is well researched, and if she doesn't promote it, how will anyone know it exists? It was published by University of North Carolina, not by one of the huge conglomerate-owned publishing houses.
Arkybark She is Scottish, and it's a lot different than being Irish historically. Deidre Daithi compiled virtually every major known Irish song or poem in Irish for the last 300 years in her "Poems of the Disspossed" for Bord na Gaelige
about 30 years ago. Hundreds of songs from all of the great poets and anonymous folk tunes that tell the sad story
of Irelands" struggle with the invader. Amount of times anything from this was heard on "Thistles and Shamrocks?
=0. Instead the perpetuation of the myth of music loving "Celts" in the hills of the south.
Thistle and Shamrock is a program for American audiences, who are largely oblivious to the constant ethnic conflicts still leaving their stamp on other regions of the world. Whether you or I think this is good or bad is probably not all that relevant to other people. But I don't understand what you have to criticize about Fiona Rtichie's book (with Doug Orr), which - correct me if I'm wrong - I suspect you have not bought or read. I bought it a few months ago and find it well researched, although I am not nearly finished reading it. It is, of course, impossible to please everyone all the time.
+Robert Kelly The level of ignorance in your comment astounds me. We don't care about them? We don't care about the origins of men and women who's lives directly impacted that of our own? I've no doubt the world believes us capable of it. If you'd bother to do your research you would know that we as a whole embrace our heritage, and the men and women of the Appalachian's do so even more. If you ever get that chip off your shoulder, maybe you can come visit and see for yourself one day.
Because that is what Allied countries do. They don't ask why they just do it.
I'm American Irish deep rooted from Tennessee to Indiana ..can I take my Chad Smith snare drum.and tour Ireland want to trade gigs
And where do you think the Scots Irish got it from?
ok where did they get it from
@@patrickkelly7085, Ireland, they stole it, Culture!
@@joebyrne3159 the irish got it from scotland. the actual home of bluegrass music. fiddle reel music is indigenous to scotland not ireland. it was scots who introduced the fiddle to ireland . in the 1700s irish fiddlers came over to scotland to learn the fiddle taking many scottish reel tunes and strathpeys back to ireland.
@@brucecollins4729 1am Scoti was an Irish Clan that went to Alba, that later became Scotland! The Irish Monks brought Whiskey over to Scotland! The oldest bagpipes in Ireland are over 4,000 years old!
@@joebyrne3159 the scoti coming from ireland to scotland is myth . there is no factual or physical evidence to support this. never been taught in scottish schools ,never will be. once again, the irish monks bringing whisky over to iona is myth, nothing else. the worlds oldest whisky still is in fife in a wee village called lindores. jamesons world famous irish whiskey. well , jameson was a scotsman who went over to ireland to manage a distillery that was built owned and operated by another scotsman called stein. both of them were married into the haig family, also scottish who had 2 or3 distilleries in ireland. you might want to check out guinness.
All modern music with its syncopated rhythm comes from Scots-Irish music. Blues, R&B, Rock, Hiphop, all of its origins come from Scots-Irish songs in the American south.
"Hillbilly" is a compliment.
Yessir, amen.
I wonder if Connor McGreggor knows he's a hillbilly
It truly is. People are now embracing the term.
@@angelo_giachetti ....if he don't ....he betta sing hallelujah ing the ring....while bowing to..."his betters...!!!!🤣🤣!!!)
I wasn't born in the hills but my roots are there. Proud of it too. From Mississippi.
Plenty of Scotch/Irish here in Arkansas especially in the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains. We have the same rich bluegrass hillbilly culture as Appalachia,many came from there.
The Hillbilly Piper - I had ancestors (Sawreys) from Arkansas who I thought were Scotch-Irish, but I’m not certain. Probably most Americans whose American roots go back several generations have some Scotch-Irish.
@@GH-oi2jf Sawrey is a English surname. The term ''scotch-Irish'' doesn't mean you have Irish ancestry and scottish. I don't how many people get those things confused and think their Irish ancestor were scots-Irish.
@@thenextshenanigantownandth4393 Having an English (technically Anglish) surname is quite common for Scots-Irish; the protestants in England were kicked out and "settled" in Ulster Plantation, Ireland, where there were the protestants from Scotland. So the people are a mix of Celtic-Scottish and Danish-English. Many surnames passed down, but the people integrated with the Scottish community in Ireland. @Gh1618 is probably Scot Irish if that's what their family says.
Scots .... Scotch is a drink.
@@shellc6743 Scotch is an archaic form of Scots....or Scots is the more modern usage. Scotch just means Scottish (looked it up in my Scots dictionary). It's an ethnonym which originated in the Unted States. Many of my mother's people are Scotch-Irish. That's the term they used my whole life. That's the term they'd use when describing their ethnicty if they didn't say "American." Remember the name came about long before modern usage, so it's a bit archaic. The Protestant settlers in North Ireland call themselves Ulster Scots or Ulster Irish, not Scotch-Irish or Scots-Irish. So don't worry so much. The people named themselves. Use Scots-Irish if you like, but don't get upset when people use their own name for themselves.
How I miss that Northern Irish accent, my Grandfather was born in Belfast, generations before him his great-great uncles went to America and ended up in Utah and Texas, my Grandad came to Canada, he brought his love of music and that lovely Irish accent with him.
I love this series. It is the story of my family. My family were Quakers and came over from Ireland in the mid to late 1700's. They landed in PA and then over the years migrated south. My father was from AL. The family tree, if it's correct, goes back to the 900's in Scotland when a King came from Norway and claimed the throne of Scotland. My DNA is Scottish, Irish, English, Germany (English and German are my mother's side), Norway,. When I was in the Navy I spent two and half years in Scotland. I didn't know it then, but where I was living I could see the town Greenock, that my future wife's family came from. They immigrated to the US in the late 1800's.
I also have Irish quaker ancestors from that era!
Born in and still live in Ballymena N.Ireland. Would love to visit the Appalachian region where my forefathers moved to.
Irish Gaelge and Scottish Giadlhig were both still spoken in some parts of the Appalachians until about the 1940's
Tiocfaidh Ár Lá!
@@-jank-willson people in the orange order have also spoken Irish so what ur point
@@nielsdodo7059 ?
@@nielsdodo7059 There were Irish and scottish immigrants who went to the appalachians, and then later the Scotch-irish as well.
Throughout history, the Scotch-Irish and the Irish have always been at odds with one another, as the Scotch-Irish were Protestant 'orange order' types, and the Irish were Catholics...
Not all the descendants of the Scots-Irish stayed in Appalachia. They had a broader cultural impact on other forms of American popular music as well.
there were so many scots irish and the copulated and propagated so prolifically they managed to settle the usa in a hundred years
yep some Scots made it to Oklahoma (such as my family) and married survivors of the trail of tears (Cherokee)
@@princekermit0 lots of Scots-Irish in the Wild West in general.
WATCH THIS VIDEO! I just uploaded a UA-cam video which compares rare traditional recordings of Appalachian traditional music with ancient British ballads. Here it is:
ua-cam.com/video/mUGoWwGKwSA/v-deo.html
Feel free to explore my channel for more content about traditional music!
@@princekermit0 My Scotch Irish Ancestors look more Cherokee than European. I have that little lump on the back of my skull that identifies me as Cherokee.