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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 ...
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 ...
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 Shepherd's Song; "The gowan glitters on the sward;" 1818, words by Joanna Baillie, folk song setting Again, my Lyre, yet once again; 1815, words by William Smyth Sally in Our Alley; "Of all the girls that are so smart;" 1817, words by Henry Carey, folk song setting [ 2 ]
The song is often accompanied by a circle singing game.Players form a circle and dance around one player. When they reach the end of the verse they stop, the single in the middle performs an action (such as Highland dancing), which everyone then imitates, before starting the verse again, often changing the single player to a boy, or a boy can join the center player - thus creating an extra ...
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]