Fraya Thomsen is a Scottish harpist and composer in high demand. As one half of the internationally renowned duo The Duplets, her tunes are widely sought after.
The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the fist time since their original publication (1967, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun cloth in the Hebrides.
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.
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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