The broken remains of James Macpherson’s fiddle are held in the Clan Macpherson Museum, Newtonmore. They also have the original Banff town clock, reputedly set forward by 45 minutes to ensure that Macpherson was executed before an expected reprieve could arrive.
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https://www.clanmacphersonmuseum.org.uk
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Jamie Macpherson’s Fiddle: Decolonisation, and Representing Gypsy/Traveller Communities in the Clan Macpherson Museum
—Rhona Ramsay & Jim MacPherson, NORTHERN SCOTLAND 15/2, 2024 – available free from Edinburgh University Press on Open Access
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https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/nor.2024.0317
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Another version of “Macpherson’s Rant”, performed by The Corries for BBC Scotland
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_euUOCcLuw&list=RDb_euUOCcLuw&start_radio=1
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The Scots Language Centre website has a version of the traditional lyrics – along with an audio recording of “MacPherson's Rant” performed by Ewan McVicar, vocal & guitar, with Colin Campbell on the fiddle.
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https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/449/type/referance
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A song about an injustice.The story of the song is largely true.James MacPherson was an outlaw in the North East of Scotland, one of the travelling people and the leader of a band of robbers. He was said to have been generous to and popular with the poor people, but he was the enemy of Lord Duff, …
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