Ali Burns, Emily Smith, Jamie McClennan, Robyn Stapleton, Aaron Jones, Claire Mann, Wendy Stewart, Tom Pow, The Feral Choir
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MacMath - The Silent Page
The Macmath Collection of Songs.
William MacMath, 1848 – 1922, grew up in Galloway before moving to Edinburgh as a young man and his huge and largely unacknowledged legacy was in helping the great American ballad collector and academic Francis Child with his definitive publication: English and Scottish Popular Ballads 1882 – 1898.
Although working entirely in his spare time, Macmath worked tirelessly and meticulously over a period of almost thirty years, to track down and verify details relating to the Scottish ballads included in Child’s collection.
The National Trust for Scotland’s Broughton House and Garden, Kirkcudbright, holds many of the letters between Macmath and Child written over their long association.
More pertinently to the project there are two books of mostly unpublished songs and song fragments written down by Macmath. It is these two volumes that they’re looking at in this project.
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Robyn Stapleton
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