Introduction to Co Siod Thall Air Sraid Na H-eala? (Who Is That Yonder On The Swan's Road?)

Title: Introduction to Co Siod Thall Air Sraid Na H-eala? (Who Is That Yonder On The Swan's Road?)
Date recorded: August 31, 1951
Contributor(s): Performer: Henderson, Hamish; Recordist: Lomax, Alan
Genre: spoken
Instruments: voice
Culture: Lowland Scotland, Scottish

Subject(s):

Setting: The Ceilidh of the People's Festival Fringe, Oddfellows Hall

Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Archive ID: T3432R04

Original format: Reel to Reel
Tape number: T3432
Track: 4

Part of: Edinburgh 8/51

About the session: Recordings from the first People's Festival Ceilidh, part of the 1951 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Ballads and songs sung by Jimmy MacBeath, John Strachan, Jessie Murray, and Blanche Wood; Gaelic pieces by Calum Johnson and Flora MacNeil; piping by John Burgess; MC'd by Hamish Henderson.

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