MUSIC FROM SCOTLAND
CEILIDH-for those who don’t know -is not a concert but "people coming together to sing together." At least that’s the definition given by Hamish Henderson who introduces a programme of Scottish songs and piping from the Edinburgh’s People’s Festival, recorded by the BBC and now to be heard from National stations of the NZBS, It will be broadcast from 4YA at 2.0 p.m. this Sunday (May 30). For this Ceilidh, performers came from all over Scotland. There are traditional work songs from the Outer Hebrides, an old Perthshire lament for Gregor MacGregor, from the South "Blue Bonnets over the Border," a Strathspey and Reel played by the piper Calum Johnston of Barra, and a "mouth-tune" from Central Buchan sung by Arthur Argo, a young lad from Fyvie. Scots in particular will appreciate this glimpse of both Highland and Lowland, especially when they hear an Elgin tinker, Jimmy MacBeath, singing "The Muckin’ of Geordie’s Byre." Jimmy is a wanderer who still earns his living sing-. ing at weddings, fairs and wakes all over the north of Scotland.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 21
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179MUSIC FROM SCOTLAND New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 775, 28 May 1954, Page 21
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