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Hands Up for Trad Project > FolkWaves > News > Child Ballad

Fine Flooers by Gillian Frame

A version of the ballad The Cruel Mother. It features Gillian on vocals and fiddle, Mike Vass on tenor guitar, Anna Massie on guitar and vocals, Euan Burton on bass and Phil Hague on percussion. Arran-born fiddler/singer Gillian Frame – Scotland’s inaugural Young Traditional Musician of the Year back in 2001, and co-founder of the […]

Usher’s Well by Barbara Dymock

A fusion of styles and cultures, Child Ballad 79, The Wife of Usher’s Well is sung in Scots but set to a melody composed by Fatoumata Diawara from Mali resulting in an intriguing combination of comtemporary African music and rhythms with 17th century lyrics. Scots singer Barbara Dymock based in Dundee was brought up in […]

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