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| Scottish Traditional Songs and Ballads 24 is released to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding, at and by Edinburgh University, of the much-admired School of Scottish Studies. The featured songs were collected from as long ago as the 1950s by former editor of The Scots Magazine Maurice Fleming, whose enthusiasm was fired by a chance meeting with no less a figure than poet and folklorist Hamish Henderson. The two had even attended the same local school as boys, though some years apart. Most, if not all, of the songs come from traditional sources or from the travelling community, and feature contributions from Belle and Sheila Stewart, Willie MacPhee, Bella Higgins, Charlotte Higgins, Jock White, Martha Reid and Ruby Kelbie, to name but a few. The tracks reflect the lives and traditions of country Scotland, which were much closer to the lives of the travelling people in the 1950s than they are now. And some would argue that the most visible travelling people of today are also vastly different from their self-sufficient, hard-working and infinitely adaptable forebears. A valuable insight into a largely vanished seam of our nation’s folk culture, which without the efforts of Maurice, this collection would probably be irreplaceable and more than likely lost for ever. |
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