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'Tis Sixty Years Since : The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival, Paperback / softback Book

'Tis Sixty Years Since : The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival Paperback / softback

Edited by Eberhard Bort

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This publication commemorates the 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and collects views and perspectives on the way the Folk Revival has evolved over the past sixty years. 'Tis Sixty Years Since: The 1951 Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh and the Scottish Folk Revival -Sixty years ago, in 1951, the first Edinburgh People's Festival Ceilidh at Oddfellows' Hall kick-started the modern Scottish Folk Revival.

It was presided over by Hamish Henderson and recorded by Alan Lomax.

Sixty years ago, the School of Scottish Studies was founded at the University of Edinburgh. The 10th Carrying Stream Festival in November 2011, organised by Edinburgh Folk Club in cooperation with the School of Scottish Studies and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, celebrated these anniversaries.

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