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Charlotte MacInnes performing Scots dialect songs from the Hebrides, Scotland, 1939

Sound recordings: In Lowland Scots dialect and English.

Comprises a group of field materials documenting Charlotte MacInnes performing unaccompanied Scots dialect and English songs from the Hebrides, Scotland, on February 15 and June 15, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Oakland, California.

Recordings:

February 15, 1939:

The Four Maries
Hieland Mary
Ca' the Yowes
The Weary Pund o' Tow
Cam' ye by Athol

June 15, 1939:

Flow gently sweet Afton

Biographical and historical notes:

Charlotte MacInnes is from Dundee, Scotland. She learned all of her songs in school.

 

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