Hamish Henderson remembered as 6th Carrying Stream Festival gets underway.

The line-up for the festival celebrating the life of the late folklorist and poet Hamish Henderson has been unveiled. The 6th Carrying Stream Festival, features performances by Brian McNeill, Dick Gaughan, The McCalmans and to name but a few. David Ferrard, Kate Bramley, Jez Lowe and other contributors to the Compilation CD ‘Not in Our Name’ present songs about the war in Iraq and social change in a musical event which contributes to a culture of peace and democracy, very much in the spirit of Hamish Henderson.

The festival was set up in 2002 following the death of Henderson. Hamish threw himself into the work of the folk revival after the war, discovering and bringing to public attention the astonishing Jeannie Robertson. He collected widely in the Borders and the north-east of Scotland, creating links between the travellers, the bothy singers of Aberdeenshire, the Border shepherds, and the young men and women who in Edinburgh were discovering a whole new lens through which to view their country and their people.

From 1955 to 1987 he was on the staff of the University of Edinburgh's School of Scottish Studies which he co-founded with Calum Maclean where he contributed to the sound archives which are now available on-line.

visit: edinburghfolkclub.org.uk

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