"Crossing the Minch" is NOT an Irish tune! (Or a polka).

The folklore about it is that it's not actually about the strait in the Western Isles either - the tune was written by a Highland piper in Edinburgh, and "the Minch" was the way his fellow drinkers used to refer to the stormy and turbulent stretch of street separating two city centre bars that Hebrideans would often drink in.

I really liked the musicians from Gog Magog when I heard them in Whitby.