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The original music of Scotland was preserved in the 1960s and ’70s from the Corries, a duo featuring multi-instrumentalists, songwriters, and vocalists Roy Williamson and Ronnie Browne. Although they mainly centered on traditional folk tunes, the Corries are greatest remembered for his or her original tunes, “Blossom of Scotland” by …

Belfast-born folk singer Paddie Bell enjoyed a broad international reputation more than four years, despite a profession which was interrupted by health issues beyond her control. Created and raised within the North Ireland town, she became an integral part of the neighborhood folk picture in her teenagers, and later fulfilled …