BOB FERGUSON TRADITIONAL CELTIC MUSIC SOLO ACT

Bob's first love in music genres is Scottish and Irish folk songs although he loved rock n'roll as well (Which you can hear in his folk song arrangements sometimes,lol) Bob can add other musicans to his solo act if needed.

Bob singing Molly Malone to a packed Skagen Hall at Skagen Festival

Bob has sung traditional Scottish and Irish songs for over forty years, and indeed it was the very first music he performed live on stage. Bob was heavily influenced by the singing of Ronnie Browne from the Corries Scottish Folk duo and Tommy Makem the well renowned Irish folk singer.

Some of Bob's traditional or traditional-sounding songs are;-

  • Scottish folk songs
  • Ally Bally bee
  • Aye Waukin’ o
  • Ca the ewes
  • Caledonia
  • Dark island
  • Every river (Runrig)
  • Flower of Scotland
  • Gallawa hills
  • Green grow the rashes o
  • Greenfields of France
  • I am sailing
  • I’m a rover
  • Jock o Hazeldean
  • Leezie Lindsay
  • Loch Lomond
  • Loch Tay boat song
  • Macphersons rant
  • Mingulay boat song
  • Misty mountain lady
  • Mormond braes
  • Mull of Kintyre
  • My bonnie lies over the ocean
  • Northern lights of old Aberdeen
  • Parting glass
  • Peggy Gordon
  • Rattling bog
  • Roving journeyman
  • The Portree kid
  • Roses of prince Charlie
  • Under the Scotsman’s kilt
  • Waltzing Matilda
  • Westlin winds
  • Willies gane tae Melville castle
  • Auld lang syne
  • Ye Jacobite’s by name
  • Ready for the storm
  • This love will carry
  • Leaving of Liverpool
  • All around my hat
  • Bonnie Bessie logan
  • Both sides the tweed
  • Broom o the Cowdenknowes
  • Colliers’s way
  • Dirty old town
  • Drunken sailor (Half parody version-funny)
  • Ettrick lady
  • Farewell tae the haven
  • Feal so near
  • Final trawl
  • Freedom come all ye
  • Green grow the rashes o
  • Gypsy rover
  • Haul away joe
  • Highland widows lament
  • Jamie Raeburn
  • Killiecrankie
  • Leave her Johny leave her
  • Massacre of Glencoe
  • Mhairie’s wedding
  • Nancy whisky
  • Queen of all Argyle
  • Reconciliation
  • Schooldays over
  • Scots wha hae
  • Shoals of herring
  • Skye boat song
  • Smuggler
  • Parcel of rogues
  • Flowers of the forest
  • The Kings shilling
  • The rose of Allendale
  • The water is wide
  • A mans a man
  • Tramps and Hawkers
  • Wild mountain thyme 
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  • Irish songs list
  • Athenrye
  • Avondale
  • Boston rose
  • Carrickfergus
  • Fairytale of New York
  • Red Rose café
  • Galway girl
  • Galway shawl
  • Irish rover
  • Isn’t it grand boys
  • Maids when your young
  • Moonshiner
  • Poor paddy on the railway
  • Raglan road
  • Rocky road to Dublin
  • Seven drunken nights
  • She moved through the fair
  • Song for Ireland
  • The Holy Ground
  • Rare ould times
  • Town I loved so well
  • When you were sweet sixteen
  • Whisky in the jar
  • Leaving of Liverpool
  • All for me grog
  • As I roved out
  • Back home in Derry
  • Banks of the roses
  • Biddy Reilly
  • Black velvet band
  • Bold o Donahue
  • Bunch of Thyme
  • Cliffs of Doneen
  • Curragh o Kildare
  • Danny Boy
  • Fiddler’s green
  • Flight of Earls
  • Four green fields
  • Hand me down my bible
  • Hills of Isle Au Haut
  • Home boys home
  • Isle of Hope
  • Sally gardens
  • It’s a long way to Tipperary
  • Lakes of Coolfin
  • MacAlpines Fusiliers
  • Mary of Dungloe
  • Molly Maguires
  • Monto
  • Muirshin Duirkin
  • My lovely Rose of Clare
  • Nancy Whisky
  • New York Girls
  • Only our rivers
  • Quare bungle rye
  • Red haired Mary
  • Rising of the moon
  • Rosin the bow
  • Some say the devil is dead
  • Spancil hill
  • Spanish lady
  • Star of the County Down
  • The Mermaid
  • Waxies dargle
  • Weila, Wiela
  • Wild colonial boy
  • Wild rover
  • Green and red of mayo

 

  • Mixed folk songs
  • Annie’s song
  • April
  • Black is the colour
  • Blowing in the wind
  • Bright eyes
  • By the time I get to phoenix
  • Catch the wind
  • City of New Orleans
  • Are you going to San Fransisco
  • From Clare to hear
  • Closest thing to crazy
  • Early morning rain
  • Fennario
  • Fields of gold
  • First of May
  • First time ever I saw your face
  • Fog on the Tyne
  • Galveston
  • I am Australian
  • I will wait
  • If I had a hammer
  • I’ll fly away
  • Working man
  • It’s good to see you
  • John o dreams
  • Jolene
  • Jug of punch
  • Leaving on a jet plane (my funny parody version)
  • Liverpool Lou
  • lord of the dance
  • meet me on the corner
  • Michael row the boat ashore
  • He’s got the whole world
  • Oh Susanna
  • Pay me my money down
  • Peaceful easy feeling
  • Roll on the day
  • Not a matter of pride
  • Ruby Tuesday
  • Saved by the bell
  • Scarborough fair
  • May it be
  • Seems it never rains in Southern California
  • Songdance
  • Sound of silence
  • Sound the pibroch
  • South Australia
  • Steal away
  • Streets of London
  • Summertime
  • The Boxer
  • The carnival is over
  • Day of the jackal
  • The Dutchman
  • The Gambler
  • The hanging tree
  • The lady came from Baltimore
  • The times they are a changing
  • There’s another train
  • Those were the days
  • Absent friends
  • Where have all the flowers gone
  • Whisky on a Sunday
  • Wild goose
  • Windmills
  • Yellow is the colour
  • Bricklayer song
  • This is the life
  • Greensleeves Danish songs

and lots more…