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Album cover photo of a middle aged women singing, with a tartan border and Jeannie Robertson The Queen Among the heather

Review: Jeannie Robertson: The Queen Among the Heather

31 March 2025 by Jane Pettegree

Following up on our previous post about the music associated with the Battle of Harlaw, Soundyngs is reviewing a recording … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 20thCentury, FolkRevival, Folksong, JeannieRobertson, ScottishMusic, Songs, Travellers Leave a comment
old photograph with a castle on a hill, a harbour and fishing boats with sails

Gaelic Boating Songs: Ancient and (more) Modern

18 November 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Harbour and Castle at Helmsdale, Am Baile ID QZP40_Card_5608 Highland Libraries Postcard Collection It’s a truism that the Gaels … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Boats, Gaelic, Sea, Songs Leave a comment
Two women singing, wearing white blouses and kilts

Review: Songs & Poems Old & New – a Mobile Archive project from Helmsdale

9 September 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: Millie Rapson and Adeline MacPherson singing at the Gaelic MOD, mid-1950s. The Rapson family are local to Helmsdale – … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags Archive, Helmsdale, Heritage, Highland, Highlands, Kildonan, Songs Leave a comment
Book cover page with title of Gun Sireadh Gun Iarraidh and a photo of Frances Tolmie

Review: Frances Tolmie – Gun Sireadh, Gun Iarraigh

4 April 202414 March 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs’ editor laments their inability to speak Gaelic but this new collection of Tolmie’s collected songs is generously furnished with … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, Gaelic, Songs, Tolmie, Women Leave a comment
Sheet music with a lace love heart

Valentine’s Day with the Corris in Regency Edinburgh

15 February 202414 February 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Image: “The Lass of Pattie’s Mill”, lyrics by Allan Ramsay, arranged by Dominico Corri, from his “A New & Complete … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Concerts, Edinburgh, Italy, Songs Leave a comment
Cover art from A Scottish Vernacular Discography 188 to 1960 showing a sample of record labels

Review: Scottish Vernacular Discography, 1888-1960

18 January 2024 by Jane Pettegree

Soundyngs was rummaging around in the internet this week and found this resource in the webpages of the National Library … Read more

Categories Reviews Tags 19thCentury, 20thCentury, Gaelic, HistoricRecording, Recording, Songs Leave a comment
Woodcut of a tinker packman followed by a dog, printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway, in the 19th century

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 3: songs and chapbooks

2 October 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Cover of a 19th Chapbook printed in Newton Stewart, Galloway (author’s own photograph) This is the last of … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ayrshire, Borders, Burns, Galloway, Songs Leave a comment

Broughton House and Border Ballads Part 2: The Mansfield Manuscript

18 September 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Featured Image: Kirkcudbright, by Kenny Lam, from Visit Scotland Website In Soundyngs’ last post, I discussed the song collecting activity … Read more

Categories Articles Tags 18thCentury, 19thCentury, Ballads, Edinburgh, Galloway, Songs 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
Page of a book with parallel Gaelic and English texts

A Fresh Look at the Carmina Gadelica: Recent Research by Domhnall Uilleam Stiùbhart

25 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: from University of St Andrews Special Collection, first edition of “Carmina Gadelica” vol.1 (Edinburgh, T & A Constable, 1900), … Read more

Categories Articles Tags AlexanderCarmichael, Celticism, Charms, Folklore, Gaelic, Song, Songs Leave a comment
James Hogg painted as the Ettrick Shepherd by Sir John Waton Gordon

Review: “James Hogg, Contributions to Musical Collections and Miscellaneous Songs”, ed. Kirsteen McCue

9 January 2023 by Jane Pettegree

Image: “James Hogg, Poet, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’”, painted by Sir John Watson Gordon in 1830.  CC Wikimedia Commons, courtesy of … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags 19thCentury, JamesHogg, KirsteenMcCue, Romantic, Scots, Song, Songs, WalterScott Leave a comment
map of Scotland using a collage of old sheet music

Review: The “St Andrews Scottish Songbook”: A New Chapter in a Scots Drawing Room Singing

14 December 202213 December 2022 by Jane Pettegree

While some songs from this new anthology were performed by Seamus Begg in October during the 2022 St Andrews Voices … Read more

Categories Articles, Reviews Tags Gaelic, Scots, Song, Songs Leave a comment
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