I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked ...

Harvard's first professor of English, the American scholar Francis James Child (1825–96) had previously prepared a collection of English and Scottish ballads, published in 1857–9, before he embarked ...

a Newfoundland version of a rare Scots Ballad called The Bonnie Banks of Fordie, known in Canada as The Banks of the Vergie-O; and a Newfoundland rhythm for fishermen's dances called The Fella from ...

The song's origins date back to an 18th-century Scottish ballad, with Auld Lang Syne eventually becoming a New Year's ...

Alongside a Q&A with Lucy Ribchester, the event will feature a harpsichord recital of the music of Maria Barthélemon and a performance of the traditional Scots murder ballad, Binnorie O.