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Book cover with title, editor, and a photograph of a smiling man with a tweed hat and coat (Jock Duncan) in a farm landscape

Review: Jock Duncan: The Man and His Songs

8 December 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Image: cover, Jock Duncan: The Man and his Songs, compiled and edited by Peter Shepheard (Perth: Rymer Books, 2024) Jock … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, Aberdeenshire, BothyBallads, Doric, Folksong, Song Leave a comment
Joe Aitken standing holding a wooden bowl and large spoon

Joe Aitken and Bothy Ballads

22 April 202422 April 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Joe Aitken winning the Bothy Ballands Champion of Champions in 2020, photo credit Daniel Forsyth, from Grampian Online. The … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 19thCentury, 21stCentury, BothyBallads Leave a comment
Old image of 4 rows of workers, male and female, wearing working clothes - men in flat caps and women with aprons

Review: Thirsty Work and Other Legacies of Folk Song

27 June 202319 June 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured image: DUNIH 353.22 Dundee linen workers, c.1865, at Cargill & Co. Bleachworks up by DIghty Burn, with thanks to … Read more

Categories General Tags 19thCentury, 20thC, Ballads, BothyBallads, Dundee, Highland, Railway, Song, Songs, Tayside Leave a comment

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