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This month's edition of Norlan Wind is the first part of a special double presentation on the Tobar and Dualchais / Kist o Riches project, which aims to make fifty years of Scottish ethnological field recordings available to the public online in the coming year. The staff at Tobar an Dualchais are currently busy digitising and cataloguing recordings of song, poetry, music and the spoken word, all of which will be made available to the public through a dedicated website. In anticipation of the launch early next year of this new and exciting online resource, Norlan Wind takes a look at the wealth of material held in the sound archives of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinbugh, one of the participants in the project. We also talk to project manager Mairead MacDonald about the background of the project and what kind of material we can expect to find online. The second installment (to follow in Norlan Wind 4) will include more tracks from the School of Scottish Studies archive, and will feature an interview with one of the cataloguers in this landmark project, Steve Byrne, familiar to the folk music world through his music with 'Malinky'.
Songs featured: 'The Beggarman', Malinky, from their album 'Last Leaves' (Greentrax CDTRAX 190) 'Maybe I'll be Mairrit Yet', Ned Stewart recorded in Fetterangus, 1960 'The Buchan Plooman', Belle & Sheila Stewart recorded in Edinburgh, 1974 'The Mochrum Bone Mill', Unity McNally recorded in Wigtownshire, 1967 'Little Sadie', Tom Paley recorded at Edinburgh Folk Club, 1970
For more information on the Tobar an Dualchais project, including updates and examples of the kind of material involved, please visit: http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/ For more information on the School of Scottish Studies, its research and teaching activities, please visit:
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