A collection of musical transcriptions, song lyrics, memoir,
stories, and lore from a matrilineal line of famed Traveller
balladeers, musicians, and storytellers Elizabeth Stewart is a
highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation
has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the
principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music.
First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of
Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and
her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in
particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961
Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad
recordings that brought the family's music and name to an
international audience. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen is a
significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories,
music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is
the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and
Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. The narrative,
spanning five generations of women and written in Scots, captures
the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart's speaking voice and is
extraordinary from a musical, cultural, sociological, and
historical point of view. The book features 145 musical
transcriptions and song lyrics, including eight original piano
compositions, folktale versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty
fascinating illustrations of the Stewart family. Elizabeth Stewart,
Mintlaw, Scotland, is an outstanding practitioner of the
traditional arts. An internationally recognized singer,
storyteller, composer, and song writer of remarkable ability, she
has performed all over the UK and made several tours of America.
She and her family have been visited by musicians, singers,
folklorists, and journalists for over fifty years. Alison
McMorland, Dunblane, Scotland, is a traditional singer, collector,
broadcaster, teacher, and writer, who over forty years has
forwarded the cause of traditional music in her numerous
recordings, publications, and classes throughout the UK, Europe and
the USA. Her most recent publication is Herd Laddie o the Glen:
Songs and Life of the Border Shepherd, Willie Scott.
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