Tannahill Weavers: The Flowers of Bermuda at 1983 Milwaukee Irish Fest

Here's a performance of Stan Rogers' "The Flowers of Bermuda" from the Tannahill Weavers during the 1983 Milwaukee Irish Fest. Various performances were recorded by the Milwaukee PBS station during that 1983 festival and aired in 1984.

The band made their Milwaukee Irish Fest debut in 1982, the second year of the festival. This began the fest's inclusion of Scottish traditional and folk artists that continues through today.

SingOut! magazine examined the song in a 2017 post titled "How Legends Are Made: Stan Rogers, 'The Flowers of Bermuda,' and Air Canada Flight 797." The article provides Rogers' description about how the song was written:

I took my first trip to Bermuda in May, 1978 and loved it. While I was there, I discovered that the whole area around Bermuda is a kind of ship graveyard. I found a map showing the location of most of the known wrecks and discovered that a coal carrier called the Nightingale sank off the North Rock in the early 1880s. The rest of the details are pure invention, except for the fact that Bermuda is lovely. https://singout.org/stan-rogers-flowers-bermuda/

From the Milwaukee Irish Fest Collection at the Ward Irish Music Archives.