Great version of the magnificent Freedom Come All Ye, performed by the great Dick Gaughan recently released, and available on Bandcamp:

https://talkingelephantrecords.bandcamp.com/track/freedom-come-all-ye

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Freedom Come All Ye, by DICK GAUGHAN

from the album LIVE AT THE BBC 1972-79

Talking Elephant Records

A bheil duine sam bith ann aig a bheil eòlas domhainn air obair Iseabail Siosal (Isabella Chisholm)?

Bha i na bana-luchd-siubhail à Srath Ghlais a chaidh a chlàradh le Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba (School of Scottish Studies) sna 1950an le Hamish Henderson. Bha beairteas iongantach aice de dh'òrain, sgeulachdan, agus gu h-àraidh mallachdan is rùinan anns a' Ghàidhlig agus sa Cheathramh (Cant).

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There’s a sang that stouns
wi the hert’s bluid
that only yersel can hear…

—Ellie McDonald, “For Hamish Henderson on his 80th Birthday”
published in A KIST O SKINKLAN THINGS (ASL, 2016)

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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Here’s a glorious rendition of Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PhuH2K5yzw

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“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.

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Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin
Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay,
But there’s mair nor a roch wind blawin
Through the great glen o’ the warld the day…

—Hamish Henderson, “The Freedom Come-All-Ye”
published in The Golden Treasury of Scottish Verse, @canongatebooks

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https://canongate.co.uk/books/3267-the-golden-treasury-of-scottish-verse/

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Hamish Henderson reading four poems: “Glasclune & Drumlochy”; “The Cell 1”; “The Cell 2”; & his translation of “Chimaera” by Dino Campana. Recorded in April 1986 by Alexander Hutchison at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Scottish Studies

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTGHuddIOag

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Hamish Henderson reading four of his poems, April 1986

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“One of the beastly sins of modern Scotland [is] that it’s a bit ashamed of the rich, riotous, very bawdy but also high-spirited kindly & generous past.”

—Dr Sarah Leith on Hamish Henderson’s reimagining of Scottish identity

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https://scottishcriticalheritage.wordpress.com/2019/11/11/sex-whisky-and-rock-and-reel-hamish-hendersons-reimagining-of-scottish-identity/

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Sex, Whisky and ‘Rock and Reel’: Hamish Henderson’s Reimagining of Scottish Identity

Hamish Henderson was born 100 years ago today. Sarah Leith, History PhD student at St. Andrew’s, reflects on his efforts to reinvent Scottish identity during the 1950s. Maker, ye maun sing th…

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“The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” ☝️ is based on a 16th-century German folksong, “Streitlied zwischen Leben und Tod”. You can listen to Henderson’s poem being sung here by Alison McMorland

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAheJjneNV4

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The Flyting O' Life And Daith

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Quo daith, the warld is mine.
Whit sterts in dreid, gangs doon in pain
Bairns wintin’ breid are makin’ mane
Quo daith, the warld is mine…

—Hamish Henderson’s “The Flyting o’ Life & Daith” is a poetical battle between the forces of creation & destruction

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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/

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“The revolutionary & insurrectionary spirit of radical love is very much present in Henderson, a wanderer at the creative edge, forever pushing back against the domineering discourses of officialdom”

—Mairi McFadyen: Hamish Henderson & the Liberated Life

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https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2019/08/16/hamish-henderson-and-the-liberated-life/

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Hamish Henderson and the Liberated Life

Earlier this month I was at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh to take part in one of a series of events celebrating the legacy of Hamish Henderson in what would have been his 100th year…

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