Join Les Délices for a FREE performance at the scenic Happy Days Lodge at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. O’er the Hills and Far Away is an uplifting new program from Les Délices that brings together 18th century Scottish ballad tunes with songs of the Great Lakes and the Ohio-Erie Canal. Join us for ballad tunes, jigs, and reels that crossed the Atlantic and traveled up through the Cuyahoga Valley to Lake Erie in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. Featuring Tyler Duncan (baritone), Debra Nagy (oboe and recorders), Shelby Yamin (violin), Rebecca Landell (cello), and Brian Kay (guitar)
Musical Program
Scots & English Ballads
Dibdin: The soldier’s adieu
Tweed Side
Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean
Frances Hopkinson
The traveler benighted
My days have been so wondrous free
As slow our ship (to the tune of The girl I left behind me)
Patriotic
The Georgia Grenadier’s March
Rise Columbia (an occasional song written by Mr. Thomas Paine of Boston)
General Washington’s March
Roslyn Castle
French allies
March des Marseillais
l’Ord’nance
Yanky Doodle
Lafayette – to the tune of Auld lang syne
Old American Ballads
The Lovely Ohio (The Banks of the Ohio)
Logan’s Lament
Canal Commemoration
Paddy on the Canal
The Meeting of the Waters
Canal boat songs
I’m afloat
The Old Skipper
O dear what can the matter be
O’er the hills and far away
