When we started recording Dialect & Folk Music "in
the field" 1952, it was at a time when a number of enthusiast academics
were beginning to take an interest in recording the speech and song of the
Scottish "Lowlands". While Peter Kennedy was working in Northern Ireland,
Irishman, Seamus Ennis, went to North-East Scotland, an area where both
would later team up with Hamish Henderson. One of Seamus's first contacts
in Aberdeen was Arthur Argo, grandson of the important Lowland Scots collector,
Gavin Greig, and it was Arthur who introduced Seamus to most of the performers
featured on this Aberdeenshire collection. |
