The Stewarts of Blair (Belle Stewart, Scottish trad folk) LP 1966 VERY GOOD

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The Stewarts of Blair

Topic Records 12T138 LP 1966 (UK)

In 1966 Peter Shepherd and Jimmy Hutchinson started the Blair Folk Festival. Sheila Stewart won the singing competition with "The Twa Brothers". After 1969 the annual festival relocated to Kinross. Later in the 1960s Alex Stewart made his living in the summer months by playing bagpipes to tourists in Glen Coe and Oban. Belle knew all the songs and decided which of the other members of the family could sing which songs. Ian Stewart became a bagpiper like his father. Belle Stewart became a recipient of the British Empire Medal in 1981. (Her daughter Sheila later received an MBE.) "The Overgate", a folksong with some similarities to "Seventeen Come Sunday" has particular associations with the Robertson/ Higgins/ Stewart family of Travellers. Belle recorded it in 1976. In 1965 the family recorded an album called "The Stewarts of Blair", which the Scottish folk scene took to its heart.

Tracklist
A1 Huntingtower 
A2 Caroline Of Edinburgh Town 
A3 In London's Fair City 
A4 Queen Among The Heather 
A5 Dowie Dens O' Yarrow 
B1 The Lakes O' Shillin 
B2 Ower Yon Hill There Lives A Lassie 
B3 The Convict's Song 
B4 Young Jamie Foyers 
B5 The Corncake Amang The Whinny Knowes 
B6 Busk, Busk, Bonnie Lassie 
B7 March; Strathspey; Reel 

Traditional ballads, songs and pipe music by one of Scotland's great singing families

Alex, Belle, Cathie and Sheila Stewart

Vinyl is EXCELLENT in a plastic-lined paper inner sleeve in a picture sleeve in FAIR condition (light water damage, seam needs glue)

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