Up yon wide and lonely glen : Travellers' songs, stories and tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts / Elizabeth Stewart ; compiled and edited by Alison McMorland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stewart, Elizabeth, 1939-2022.

Contributor:

McMorland, Alison.

Elphinstone Institute.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk songs, Scots--Scotland--History and criticism.

Folk songs, Scots.

Ballads, Scots--Scotland--History and criticism.

Ballads, Scots.

Folk music--Scotland--History and criticism.

Folk music.

Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people)--Music--History and criticism.

Scottish Travellers (Nomadic people).

Stuart family.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi in association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950's, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family's music and name to an international

Contents:

Doon the Dukker

Jean Stewart's dance band

Aunt Lucy

Binnorrie

Song notes : Geordie Mcintyre.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-280-77623-4

9786613686626

1-61703-309-X

OCLC:

797916337