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| :: Title :: |
Introduction of Mo Run Geal Og (My Fair Young Love) |
| :: Genre :: |
spoken |
| :: Performers & Instruments :: |
| Henderson, Hamish [vocal] |
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| :: Setting :: |
The Ceilidh of the People's Festival Fringe, Oddfellows Hall |
| :: Location :: |
Edinburgh (Midlothian), South-east (Scotland) |
| :: Language :: |
English |
| :: Culture :: |
Scottish, Lowland Scots |
| :: Session :: |
Edinburgh 8/51
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| :: Date :: |
8/30/1951 |
| :: Reference Information :: |
T3429.0, Track 6 (00:00:34) |
| :: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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| :: Session Notes :: |
| 1 - Recordings from the first People's Festival Ceilidh, part of the 1951 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Ballads sung by Jimmy MacBeath, John Strachan, Jessie Murray, and Blanche Wood; Gaelic songs by Calum Johnson and Flora MacNeil; piping by John Burgess; MC'd by Hamish Henderson. [Source: Editor] |
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| :: Recording Notes :: |
| 0 - Hamish Henderson introduces the song as a "lament of William Chisholm of Strathglass," in which Chisholm's widow "reproaches Prince Charlie for the losses that he has caused the Highland people." [Source: Editor] |
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| :: Collection :: |
Scotland 1951, 1953, and 1958 |
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