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The Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra (Ulster-Scots: ''Ulstèr-Scotch Fowk Orchéstrà'')〔(Tha Airts o Airisch an Ulstèr-Scotch ); The Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Retrieved 27 October 2011.〕 is a Northern Irish band of musicians who perform music from the Ulster-Scots tradition. Formed in 2000, the USFO are part of a wider revival of interest in Ulster-Scots language and culture that developed during the 1990s. They draw on long established practices of community music-making, including gospel-singing, fiddling, piping, flute and accordion bands, drumming and fifing. Combining these traditions in innovative ways, they produce sounds that are both new and distinctive. Their focus on the local is complemented by the creative use of related traditions in Scotland, Ireland and the Scotch-Irish diaspora in North America. ==History== The Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra had its roots in Fowkgates (Ulster-Scots for "Culture"), an artists' collective which was founded by Willie Drennan in 1999 to promote the Ulster-Scots tradition. Following the success of initial recordings issued by Fowkgates, the Orchestra was formed in October 2000. Their arrival was announced by a major concert in the Ulster Hall in early 2001. In the spring of the same year, they travelled to Atlanta to perform at a Scotch-Irish Symposium at Emory University. Following their return to Ireland, they took part in an ethnomusicological workshop at the Irish World Music Centre at the University of Limerick in June 2001, including concert performances in the area which received a very positive response. The USFO brought out their first album ''Planet Ulster'' later in 2001. Following its success, the second album ''Endangered Species'' was released the following year. In 2004 the USFO visited Kentucky bringing their music to schools and colleges and re-establishing the cultural links between Ulster and the Bluegrass State. On their return to Ulster, their third album ''Bringin It Thegither'' was released. The fourth album, ''Somme'' was released in 2006 to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. As the Orchestra has developed, it has grown into a large network of musicians, who come together in different combinations for different occasions. Although the name "orchestra" was deliberately chosen to suggest the size and diversity of instruments involved, in many ways the USFO is an "anti-orchestra"; it operates as a loosely coordinated network of creative individuals, rather than in the tightly structured and hierarchical manner of a classical orchestra, and founder member John Trotter is scornful of the 'orchestralisation' of traditional music that has become common in commercialised recordings. The break away Ulster Scots eXperience group formed in July 2005 including John Trotter. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ulster-Scots Folk Orchestra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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