Jean Redpath was a Scottish folk singer who learned hundreds of traditional Scottish folk songs while studying Medieval Studies at The University of Edinburgh before moving to America in 1961 where she joined the folk scene and played with the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Ramblin Jack Elliott, and Pete Seeger. She was quickly signed to Elektra Records and began recording albums in 1962. With her scholarly Redpath also became artist-in-residence at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1972 until 1976 when she began a mammoth project to record the entire works of Robbie Burns set to music working with composer Serge Hovey. The project was proposed to run for twenty two volumes but was scrapped after seven volumes and 323 songs when Hovey died in 1989. Redpath continued to tour, record and lecture at Universities and was awarded an MBE for her work. She died of cancer at 77.
JEAN REDPATH ON PETE SEEGER'S 1960's TV SHOW;
JEAN REDPATH ~ "SONNY'S DREAM";
Buddy MacMaster was a master of Celtic fiddle music in Nova Scotia. He was actually born in Timmons, Ontario from a Gaelic speaking family who moved to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia in 1928 when he was four. He learned tradtional Scottish fiddle playing and was a semi-professional musician by the time he was twelve although he got a full time job working on the railways until he retired in 1988. He played regularly on the CBC and was widely respected as a master fiddler and was even invited to Scotland to teach. He was also the father of well known fiddler Natalie MacMaster, together they opned for the White Stripes when they played in Nova Scotia in 2007. He died at 89.
BUDDY & NATALIE MACMASTER;
