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This category is for traditional folk songs from Scotland. It also includes non-traditional "folk music" by modern pop artists. ... Pages in category "Scottish folk ...
The first folk club was founded in London by Ewan MacColl (1915–1989), who emerged as a leading figure in the revival in Britain, recording influential records such as Scottish Popular Ballads (1956). [23] Scottish folk clubs were less dogmatic than their English counterparts which rapidly moved to an all English folk song policy, and they ...
Scottish folk-song collectors (47 P) Scottish folk songs (13 C, 93 P) Pages in category "Scottish folk music" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 ...
Francis James Child, one of the key figures in beginning the first folk revival. In the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century there was and an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national song, involving Robert Burns (1759–96) building on the work of antiquarians and musicologists such as William Tytler (1711–92), James Beattie (1735–1803) and Joseph Ritson (1752 ...
In the 1790s Robert Burns embarked on an attempt to produce a corpus of Scottish national songs, contributing about a third of the songs of The Scots Musical Museum. [48] Burns also collaborated with George Thomson in A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs, which adapted Scottish folk songs with "classical" arrangements. However, Burns ...
The Scottish folk group The Singing Kettle performs this song for children in an interactive way by allowing the children to decide the foods of which Aiken Drum is made. A version is included on their CD Singalong Songs from Scotland, produced in 2003 for Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. [4]
Scottish folk songs (13 C, 93 P) * Songs about Scotland (11 P) ... Pages in category "Scottish songs" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.
The song survived into the twentieth century in the oral folk tradition, primarily in England, and many popular folk revival artists have recorded versions of the song. In most traditional versions, including the sixteenth century Scottish version entitled Alan-a-Maut, the plant's ill-treatment by humans and its re-emergence as beer to take its ...