Traditional music in England

Wreck of the Hesperus, talk about the song

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  • Type

    sound

  • Duration

    00:01:27

  • Cultures

    Scottish

  • Shelf mark

    1CDR0014026 (copy of C1034/237)

  • Recording date

    1991-08-17

  • Is part of (Collection)

    John Howson Collection

  • Recording locations

    Duncan Williamson's home, Fife, Scotland, UK

  • Recordist

    Howson, John

  • Speakers

    Williamson, Duncan, 1928- (male)

  • Description

    Speaker notes: Scottish traveller, singer and storyteller; born in a tent on the shores of Loch Fyne in Argyll in 1928, the seventh of sixteen children.

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