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Finding Scottish Songs & Ballads Online – NEW DATE: 7th April 2018

Finding Scottish Songs and Ballads Online

A FREE workshop exploring the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library’s digital archive, and its latest addition, the James Madison Carpenter Collection. Discover the potential of archival sources to connect people and place.

NEW DATE: 7th April 2018, 10am – 4pm

St Cecilia’s Hall and Music Museum, 50 Niddry St, Edinburgh, EH1 1LG

 

The James Madison Carpenter Collection, made in the 1930s, contains over 2000 songs and ballads, many collected from people in Scotland. Newly available in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) digital archive, these texts, tunes and sound recordings can now be accessed online along with over 20 other folk song collections from Britain and beyond.

  • Find out more about James Madison Carpenter and the songs that he collected.

  • Gain practical experience using the new VWML website to find the materials you want. 

  • Explore connections between the Carpenter collection and songs from the School of Scottish Studies Archives and other collections on the Tobar an Dulchais/Kist o Riches site. 

  • Discover new resources for using songs and folklore in performance, in communities and in schools. 

Sessions will be led by Laura Smyth, director of the VWML, Julia Bishop, of the Carpenter Collection Project, University of Aberdeen, and Chris Wright, co-director of Local Voices. Chris will discuss approaches to using the archival resources in projects which explore and revivify the links between people and place. The workshop is introduced by Cathlin Macaulay, Curator of the School of Scottish Studies Archives at the University of Edinburgh. It will be held in the historic surroundings of St Cecilia’s Hall and Music Museum.

 

Programme:

10.00 Welcome

10.15 ‘Dr Carpenter from the Harvard College in America’ : The J. M. Carpenter Collection of folk song and drama (Julia Bishop, Carpenter Collection Project, University of Aberdeen)

11.00 Introducing the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library digital archive (Laura Smyth, VWML)

12.30 Lunch break

2pm Using archival sources to connect people and place (Chris Wright, Local Voices)

3.30 Q&A

4pm finish

 

Booking via Eventbrite.

Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Carpenter Folk Online project, and hosted by the School of Scottish Studies Archives.