Alan Lomax Archive | Mary Johnston and group: two waulking songs (1951) @AlanLomaxArchive | Uploaded April 2020 | Updated October 2024, 2 days ago.
Two waulking songs performed by Mary Johnston and a group of women at Castlebay, Barra, in the Outer Hebrides: "Gur tu mo ni'n donn bhòidheach (You Are My Beautiful Brown-Haired Maiden)" and "O Có Bheir Mi Liom (O Who Will I Take With Me)." Recorded by Alan Lomax in August 1951. Waulking -- "luadh" in Gaelic; "milling" in Canada; "fulling" in England -- was the process of shrinking and softening the tweed after it was removed from the loom by rhythmically striking it against a surface, for which the songs kept time. For more information about Alan Lomax and his collections, including those made in the Scottish Gaeltacht, visit http://culturalequity.org. Photo courtesy of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. You can explore their online audio collections, which include many other songs relating to Hebridean wool-work, via www.tobarandualchais.co.uk.
Two waulking songs performed by Mary Johnston and a group of women at Castlebay, Barra, in the Outer Hebrides: "Gur tu mo ni'n donn bhòidheach (You Are My Beautiful Brown-Haired Maiden)" and "O Có Bheir Mi Liom (O Who Will I Take With Me)." Recorded by Alan Lomax in August 1951. Waulking -- "luadh" in Gaelic; "milling" in Canada; "fulling" in England -- was the process of shrinking and softening the tweed after it was removed from the loom by rhythmically striking it against a surface, for which the songs kept time. For more information about Alan Lomax and his collections, including those made in the Scottish Gaeltacht, visit http://culturalequity.org. Photo courtesy of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. You can explore their online audio collections, which include many other songs relating to Hebridean wool-work, via www.tobarandualchais.co.uk.
