Poet, dramatist, and all-round cultural entrepreneur Allan Ramsay wrote and collected songs to publish from his bookshop in 1720s Edinburgh.

The songs touch on love, society, commerce, drinking and lots more, and our brilliant cast of five singers brings the early Enlightenment culture of Scotland to life with songs from The Tea-Table Miscellany, vol. 1 (1723) and The Gentle Shepherd (1725-29), along with tunes from Ramsay's artistic circle.
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