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Joe Aitken (10 April 1944 – 3 April 2024) was a Scottish bothy ballad singer from Kirriemuir. [1]Aitken won several awards for bothy ballad singing such as the Champion of Champions award in Elgin, Moray and the Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards in 2010.
Lady Perth died in 1996, and Lord Perth died in Cargill, Perthshire, on 25 November 2002, aged 95. [1] He was succeeded by his elder son, John Eric Drummond, 9th Earl of Perth, who died in March 2023, aged 87.
The Perthshire Advertiser (originally the Perthshire Advertiser and Strathmore Journal) [3] is a tabloid newspaper, published by Reach plc, in Perth, Scotland. The PA , as it is commonly known, comes out twice a week, on Tuesday and Friday.
On 14 December 2005, Duncan was found dead at his home in Perthshire following a long struggle with alcoholism. [1] His funeral was held at Pitlochry Church of Scotland and was attended by hundreds of pipers. [5] [9] In his memory, the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust [12] was set up early in 2006 to support good causes in piping. [13]
The name "Perth" derives from a Pictish word for "wood" or "copse", related to the Welsh "perth", meaning "hedge" or "thicket". [10] During much of the later medieval period, it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as "St John's Toun" or "Saint Johnstoun" because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St John the Baptist. [11]
Tessa Holyoake was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on 17 March 1963. She attended Albyn School. [2] She studied medicine at the University of Glasgow, and graduated in 1985. [3] She completed her PhD at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow. [4]
Perthshire is known as the "big county", or "the Shire", due to its roundness and status as the fourth largest historic county in Scotland. It has a wide variety of landscapes, from the rich agricultural straths in the east, to the high mountains of the southern Highlands .
The National Records of Scotland attest that Gow himself used the name 'Neil'. [4] To add to the confusion, he had a musical grandson (by Nathaniel) who did spell his name "Neil". The annual Niel Gow Fiddle Festival takes place in Dunkeld and Birnam, Perthshire, Scotland. It was established in 2004 to celebrate the life and music of Gow ...
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