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Guests appearing at the Fife Traditional Singing Festival 12-14 May 2023
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Fife Traditional Singing Festival 2023 Friday 12 May to Sunday 14 May 2023 Various venues in Falkland and Freuchie, Fife Back once again with a live gathering! A weekend of traditional song - a unique opportunity to meet singers and hear traditional song in an informal gathering and participate in concerts, workshops and singarounds. Guest singers from Scotland, England and Ireland. We are very pleased to add to the guest list: Denis McGonigle: traditional singer from Inishowen, Donegal. Here is a link to the famous whaling song of The Balaena recorded by Stewart and Anne Brown and Dundee's Lowland Folk in the 1950s. Stewart & Anne will be singing and talking of Dundee songs on Saturday 13th - and expect to be on the concert on Saturday 14th in the Falkland Community Hall. |
PROGRAMME BROCHURE and BOOKING FORM |
The Festival in Falkland & Freuchie Dr Tom McKean: As Director of the Elphinstone Institute at Aberdeen University, Dr Tom McKean, a former student of Hamish Henderson, is an internationally recognised folklorist specializing in Scots and Gaelic song, custom, belief and community craft traditions. We are very pleased he has agreed to present a lecture first given as the Hamish Henderson Memorial Lecture at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh in November 2022. Tom is currently Vice President of SIEF (The International Society of Ethnology and Folklore). Stewart & Anne Brown: and their group, 'Lowland Folk Four,' were stalwarts of the Dundee folk scene of the 1960s and 70s. Led by Stewart Brown with his wife Anne and his brother Ramsay, with occasional fourth members through the years - Phil Gore (mandolin) or Allan Barty (fiddle & mandolin). They achieved fame with their first album ‘Eh’ll Tell the Boaby’ of 1967. The group recorded several more vinyl albums and a more recent CD and also featured on the 1986 record, ‘Coorse and Fine’, a collection of Dundee songs released by Springthyme Records to coincide with Nigel Gatherer’s book Songs and Ballads of Dundee. Their Saturday morning presentation will celebrate Dundee Song tradition - the singers they have known and the songs they have sung - and will be certain to include Mary Brooksbank and her famed Jute Mill Song and the famous song of the Dundee whaler, the Balaena. Jan Reid & Angel Stewart-Howden: Jan Reid is a daughter of the late traditional singer Elizabeth Stewart of Mintlaw and Angel is Jan’s daughter. Both Jan and Angel grew up with songs and music as an essential part of family life and both are incredibly proud of their family song tradition. Jan and Angel joined us for our online Zoom Gathering in November and we are very pleased they are able to come and take part in FifeSing2023 in Falkland and Freuchie. Emily Portman: is a singer, songwriter, banjo and concertina player. Emily was our guest at FifeSing in 2011 when we held the weekend at Collessie Animal Park - and we are very pleased she is able to join us again. Emily was nominated for ‘Best Singer’ in the 2016 BBC Folk awards. She tours widely and is a member of traditional song band The Furrow Collective, who were awarded ‘Best Band’ in the 2017 BBC Folk awards. Emily has been a guest lecturer for Newcastle University and Leeds Conservatoire. She has also presented BBC Radio Merseyside’s folk show ‘Folkscene’, written articles for the acclaimed roots and world music magazine fRoots, and given talks on ballads at Cecil Sharp House and The International Ballad Conference. |
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Programme
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The FifeSing events are run by
The East of Scotland Traditional Song Group
(Committee: Peter Shepheard, Jimmy Hutchison, Chris Miles)
Contact us at:
Peter Shepheard, Balmalcolm House, Balmalcolm, Cupar, Fife KY15 7TJ
tel: 00 44 (0)1337 830773
email:progress@springthyme.co.uk
Also see our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/fifesing
FifeSing Facebook.