Archive Trails
In January 2011, three bold stravaigers – Alasdair Roberts, Aileen Campbell, and Drew Wright – set forth upon a twelve-week commissioning residency in The School of Scottish Studies Archives at The University of Edinburgh.
This site tracks their progress as they listen to tapes, sift through photos, conduct their own fieldwork and begin to develop new performances from their findings.
On tour October 2011!
Oct 13 : Peebles, Eastgate Arts Centre
Oct 14 : Perth Concert Hall
Oct 15 : Cupar Arts Festival
Oct 16 : Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Oct 17 : Aviemore, Old Bridge Inn
Oct 18 : Tobermory, An Tobar
Oct 19 : Rosehall, The Achness Hotel
Oct 23 : London, Cafe OTO
Oct 28 : Glasgow, CCA
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Helmsdale Herring
Another song available to download and this one is very much a direct outcome of the Archive Trails residency; a reworking of Ewan MacColl’s “Shoals Of Herring”.
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Belle Stewart sings The Berryfields o Blair, recorded by Maurice Fleming for the School of Scottish Studies in 1954.
Hear Banff farm-hand Willie Matheson singing the song Nicky Tams in 1952. ”When the young man is only twelve years old he leaves the parish school to be fee’d [hired as a farmservant] at the Mains [home farm]. First he becomes the junior, then third man and then he gets the horseman’s grip and word, going through the caff-hoose [chaff-house] door ritual…”
