Auld
Aiberdeenshire
Sangs

Recordins o auld Scots sangs bi collectors aroon Aiberdeenshire

This site is to introduce you to the wonderful online archives of hundreds of old songs collected and recorded in Aberdeenshire.
As well as links to hear some of our favourite recordings in Scottish and American websites, we have included tracks from collectors whose work is not [yet] online.

COLLECTORS

James Madison Carpenter in 1931
Alan Lomax in 1951
Arthur Argo and Ken Goldstein in 1960
Howard Glasser in 1961
Peter Hall 1960s to 1990s

SINGERS

Jimmy MacBeath
Davie Stewart
Jeannie Robertson
Daisy Chapman
Lucy Stewart
Elizabeth Stewart
John Strachan
Jessie Murray
and many more

Affa keen tae hear frae ye.

This website is created and maintained by Ewan McVicar. More about me at ewanmcvicar.website.


OTHER MCVICAR SONG WEBSITES

theysangbonny.website
Scottish women and song from 14th C to 1999

goldsteinandscotland.com
1960 collecting in Buchan, and later recording Scots in the USA

carpenterinthenorth.com
1930 US collector in Highlands and Moray

seaboardstories.co.uk
Stories based in Easter Ross sea villages

SONG ARCHIVES
tobarandualchais.co.uk
(Search by name or place)
1000s of songs, 1930s to now

Lomax Digital Archive (culturalequity.org)
(begin search with Scotland)
1951 in the North East, Islands, and the 1951 Festival Ceilidh