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Author: Andy Hunter

Scotland’s Traveller Pipers and How I Came to Appreciate their Music

Posted on 18th January 202218th January 2022     by Andy Hunter     2 Comments

In my youth, I had the great privilege of being accepted by the traveller community, thanks to my ‘adoption’ by the late, great ballad singer Jeannie Robertson. They reckoned I had a good voice and many times I was assured by the likes of Jeannie and Belle Stewart (Blairgowrie) that I had the ‘coinneach’, a quality of voice but also of expression which caused the hairs on the back of…

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