Honeymoon Bridge is the new double album from Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes, recorded live in the studio at Watercolour Music in Ardgour during April 2026. Donald sings and plays his own Lindsay System Scottish smallpipes, with Roo on fiddle and piano. It follows their 2025 album Two Boats Under the Moon, which received five stars in BBC Music Magazine and was chosen by Folk London’s Nygel Packett as his favourite album of the year.
Where Two Boats centred on songs with guitar, Honeymoon Bridge brings the smallpipes into the song arrangements as well as the instrumental music. The extended range lets Donald accompany his own singing, with Roo responding on fiddle and piano. Their playing together has developed over years, and the record was made through that live musical exchange.
The repertoire includes traditional Scots songs, ballads, Gaelic airs and dance tunes alongside Donald’s own songs and settings. Here’s a Health to All True Lovers and Lord Randal join voice and pipes; the title song is sung with Roo’s piano. Inversnaid sets Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem to a tune Donald wrote in 2008.
For Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning, Roo and Nick Turner retuned the studio piano to meet the pipes. The album was engineered, mixed and mastered by Nick, with cover artwork by Taylor Bernard. Honeymoon Bridge was Celtic Music Radio’s Album of the Week in August.
The album is available now through Bandcamp, and all major online platforms.
Photograph of Donald: Pip Graham-Bishop
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CDs from Birnam CD and Amazon
TITLE
Honeymoon Bridge
CATALOGUE NO.
DL002
LABEL
Donald WG Lindsay
RELEASE DATE
Available Now
FORMAT
CD / Digital
FILE UNDER
Folk
AVAILABLE
Online
Disc 1
01 Track: Auld Springs Gie’s Nae Price 6.19
Tunes:
Auld Springs Gie’s Nae Price (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
St Kilda Wedding (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
Rousay Reel (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
Ho Rò Mo Bhobag an Dram (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600077 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
02 Track: The Echo Mocks the Corncrake 4.14
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600078 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
03 Track: How Can I Be Sad On My Wedding Day 3.48
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600079 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
04 Track: Orion’s Belt 2.58
(Donald WG Lindsay) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600080 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
05 Track: Inversnaid 3.06
(Gerard Manley Hopkins, Donald WG Lindsay) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600081 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
06 Track: Teampall an Ghleanntáin 4.58
Tunes:
Teampall an Ghleanntáin (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
A’ Mhisg a Chuir an Nollaig Oirnn (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
Cuir ’sa Chiste Mhòr Mi (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600082 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
07 Track: Sir Patrick Spens 8.02
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600083 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
08 Track: A Port 6.21
(composer unknown., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600084 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
Disc 2
01 Track: Drunk at Night, Dry in the Morning 4.20
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600085 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
02 Track: Here’s a Health to All True Lovers 5.24
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600086 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
03 Track: Jock Stewart 4.38
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600087 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
04 Track: Roo and Neil’s Compliments to the Cloud Appreciation Society 5.40
Roo and Neil’s Compliments to the Cloud Appreciation Society (Roo Geddes & Neil Sutcliffe) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
Walls of Liscarroll (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
Johnnie MacGill’s (trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600088 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
05 Track: Honeymoon Bridge 2.56
(Donald WG Lindsay) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600089 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
06 Track: Dumbarton Drums 3.48
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600090 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
07 Track: Lord Randall 7.36
(trad., arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600091 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay
08 Track: Tamhair Dom Do Lamh 3.55
(Ruaidhri Dall Ó Catháin, arr. Donald WG Lindsay & Roo Geddes) | Publisher: MCPS/PRS
ISRC: GB94R2600092 | Tune Code: N/A | Record Label: Donald WG Lindsay