This recording is from the Bon-Accord Silver Band's concert performance at Fraserburgh Old Parish Church from 2018, conducted by Richard Kidd

"The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly" ) is a folk song of Scottish origin, based on lyrics that partly date to the 1600s. It remains popular in the 21st century. Cecil Sharp published the song in Folk Songs From Somerset (1906). It is related to Child Ballad 204 (Roud number 87), Jamie Douglas, which in turn refers to the ostensibly unhappy first marriage of James Douglas, 2nd Marquis of Douglas to Lady Barbara Erskine.

The venue is the Fraserburgh Old Parish Church

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