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NEFA1994.027.01
P: Tom McKean
T: Announcement
S: 15/03/1994.
NEFA1994.027.02 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: Beginnings of interest
S: 29 November 1979. Interested in traditional poetry
first, at Strichen festival. Parents not musical, but enjoy it.
Great uncle Gordon Watt got him going on singing. Sings at fundraisers,
concerts, Burns Nights, etc. Has sung at some of the competitions
for the last seven years. Goes to Keith as well. Tries to have new
things now and again. Learns four or five new things a year from
tapes or books. Uses Ten North East Poets anthology and Kerr's Bothy
Ballads too.
NEFA1994.027.03 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: Competitions
S: Friends are not particularly interested in this material
and there is no chance in school to sing or recite it. One of his
teachers, Mrs Shirreffs, used to have recitations. He was seven
or eight when he first won a prize. Has not been to any of the further
away festivals yet. The competitions and concerts keep you going
and focused, especially if people come to all the concerts. He was
not too nervous when he started.
NEFA1994.027.04 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: How many songs do you sing
S: Ten
poems and ten songs.
NEFA1994.027.05 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: Oor Fairm Toon
FL: The wife's awa fae hame the nicht
S: John Mearns song.
Heard from Tom Reid. [Levels lowered partway in.]
NEFA1994.027.06 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: WPDI
FL: Ae day ma neighbour, Geordie Broun, says
S: Recitation
about a disastrous tractor purchase.
NEFA1994.027.07 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: The Buchan Plooman
FL: Come
a' ye jolly plooman lads that work amon the grun
S: Music
hall bothy song.
NEFA1994.027.08 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: The Flech
FL: Aul
Flossie, she lay sleepin, wi her nose upon her paw
NEFA1994.027.09 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: More on competitions
S: It is the way you sing it that is important, but
you do not want two fast ones, or you get out of breath. [End of
cassette side A.]
NEFA1994.027.10 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: The Pear Tree
FL: Now twa young lads belang o this nation
S: Humorous song. Heard it on a Keith Festival tape.
NEFA1994.027.11 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: Lonely
at Nicht in the Bothy
FL: Noo
fin I gaed hame tae Airda
S: Charlie Allan bothy song. He likes the fact that
the songs speak of farm life, a life with which he is familiar.
Family has been on this farm for about twenty years.
NEFA1994.027.12 Transcription
P: George Barclay
T: Tam Reid an the Bull
FL: Brigie's girse park last year wis a mess wi the
moles
S: Recitation.
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