Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen: Travellers' Songs, Stories and Tunes of the Fetterangus Stewarts

by Elizabeth Stewart

Book Overview

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617033081
• ISBN13: 9781617033087
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"