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Aug 1, 2021 · "Essential. . . . A gorgeous gift book."—New York Times Book Review “Ritchie and Orr strike all the right chords in this pleasantly tuneful survey.”—Publishers Weekly "A story remarkable for its breadth and depth, conveying the drama of Scottish emigration via Ulster to Appalachia, by a people who clung to the music and song they held dear, and bequeathed it to America.
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Sep 29, 2014 · Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia $23.86 Only 18 left in stock (more on the way). Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States.
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Fiona Ritchie MBE is the founder, producer, and host of National Public Radio's The Thistle & Shamrock and an inductee into the Folk DJ Hall of Fame. Her books include The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Celtic Music and Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia. For more information about Fiona Ritchie ...
Sep 29, 2014 · In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change. From ancient ballads at the heart of the tradition to instruments that express this dynamic music, Ritchie and Orr chronicle the details of an epic journey.
hopes, however, that Wayfaring Strangers will introduce those readers who might be at tracted to the text by Ritchie's celebrity, to the names of leading scholars and practi tioners and to a more nuanced understand ing of the musical connections between Scodand, Ireland, and Appalachia. Travis D. Stimeling West Virginia University MUSIC LITERATURE
Aug 1, 2021 · Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.
Aug 1, 2021 · Chock-full of photographs, 60 black and white and 64 color, Ritchie and Orr take us on a journey from the rich musical traditions in various regions of Scotland to the voyage of the music from Scotland to Ulster and then across the ocean, where music permeates the daily lives of the wayfarers, and finally to the migrations and settlement in a ...
