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375 Contributors Alison McMorland is a traditional singer, collector, broadcaster, teacher and writer, who has performed throughout the UK, Europe and the USA, where she guested at the Smithsonian Bicentennial Festival in 1976. She has returned to the USA regularly as a performer, in partnership with Geordie McIntyre. Singing and song traditions have been part of Alison’s life since early childhood. Inspired and influenced by Hamish Henderson, who guided her first recording of Scots songs and ballads in 1976, she has since recorded a further solo CD, five joint albums and published three traditional song collections; her publication, Herd Laddie o the Glen (shortlisted for the 2007 Michaelis-Jena Ratcliffe folklore prize), celebrates the songs and life of Willie Scott, a Border shepherd.Alison was a founder tutor on the RSAMD Scottish Music Course and has tutored on other university courses. Singing style, the sense of identity and meaning expressed in people’s lives through song, ancestral and cultural roots, the context and function of traditional song, and magic and enchantment have been constant interests. Working in Life Story reminiscence and oral history projects led Alison to co-found Living Arts Scotland in 1992, a creative arts organization devoted to transforming personal memory into tangible forms of expression, leading to training courses, conferences and arts projects inspired by tradition. (http://www.alisonmcmorland.com) A Glaswegian of Highland and Irish descent, Geordie McIntyre is a singer and a songwriter with a lifelong involvement in traditional song and poetry. His career as a History and Modern Studies teacher combined with his life-long passion for the outdoors have in diverse ways fuelled and complemented his central interest in Scotland’s music. For many years he collected songs, working with Hamish Henderson, Helen Fullerton and Bert Lloyd, and has enjoyed friendships and songs with many from the Travelling community. He has an interest which combines hearing the songs in the community and researching their background. Over the years he has written song notes for numerous recordings and books, and his other writings include album reviews. He has recorded four CDs with Alison McMorland which feature traditional songs and ballads alongside his own original songs. After working for almost twenty years (mainly with arts organisations, libraries and the voluntary sector) Caroline Milligan returned to full-time education in the year 2000. She was awarded an MA degree in Scottish Ethnology from the University of Edinburgh and went on to complete an MSc by Research in the same discipline. She is currently working within the School of Scottish Studies as part of the team which looks after the School’s Archives. Her work there is centred around the Sound Archive recordings and in this she follows in the footsteps of her father who was a Sound Engineer with the BBC in Edinburgh. 376 Contributors Caroline has been involved with a number of text-related projects including editorial assignments and ongoing work with the Maclagan manuscript collection. Her main areas of research have been Scottish song and the Scottish landscape, especially in relation to the formation , development and articulation of a sense of place, both personal and collective. Jo Miller is a singer and fiddler who has performed as a soloist and in groups and ceilidh bands. She has worked in music education for over 25 years in both informal and formal sectors , and taught at the RSAMD where she founded the innovative BA (Scottish Music) degree. As course leader from 1996–2005 she led the development of community and education studies within the Scottish Music Department, and has also written materials to support the teaching of traditional music in Scottish schools. Jo currently works as a Youth Music Advisor to Creative Scotland, and is a community musician in Stirling. She is also an independent scholar whose research interests include Scottish music pedagogy, especially the impact of the formalisation of traditional music provision in Scotland. Her recent publications include‘A Fiddle Manuscript from 18th Century Galloway’ (Musica Scotica – 800),‘Learning and Teaching Traditional Music’ (Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, vol. 10) and‘From Page to Performance: the Ballads of Mary Macqueen’ (Emily Lyle: The Persistent Scholar). ...

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