| Description | Contributors: Music-Angus Grant (Lochyside) - fiddle, Hugh MacNally (Gorthleck) - melodeon and mouth organ, Andrew Stevenson (Gairlochy) - pipes, Bill Taylor (Strathpeffer) - harp; Songs: Hugh Court (Inverness), Eilidh Davies (Invergarry), Bill Francis (Drumnadrochit), Donald MacAskill (Dingwall), Bob Pegg (Beauly) and the children of Caol Primary School; Memories: Willie Batchen (Foyers), Angus Grant (Fort Augustus), Annie Grant (Laggan), Pat McDonald (Invermoriston), Ann Philips (Muirtown) and Mairi Weir (Cullochy); Stories: Mairi MacArthur (Inverness), Andrew Mackintosh (Inverness) and Hugh MacNally (Gorthleck); Readings: Ian Blake (Gairloch) and Jim Love (Inverness); Links: Alan Watters (Drumnadrochit); Credits: 'Loch Ness Reel' and 'The Great Glen Waterway' by Hug MacNally, The Back of Ardachy' by Duncan MacDonald (1885-1960), 'Ode to Clachnaharry' by Ann Philips and 'Ascending Neptune's Staircase' by Ian Blake |
| Administrative History | The culmination of a project set up in 1999 by the Cultural & Leisure Services of the Highland Council to tie in with a wider EU TERRA funded programme entitled 'Historic Canals: Living Waterways. Bob Pegg and Mairi MacArthur were commissioned to research the musical traditions of the Caledonian Canal, with the broad range of oral and documentary sources identified during the project being drawn upon to produce this tape |