Evan MacColl: The Lochfyneside Bard / Bàrd Loch Fìn
John Y. Murray
A collection of 10 songs by the well-known bard Evan MacColl; the Lochfyneside Bard, which was published to mark the hundredth anniversary of his death.
This Collection of Highland Gaelic Airs by Patrick McDonald was first published in 1784 and contains the tunes to many Gaelic songs of that period from all over Scotland.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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