Telegraph reports Ewan MacColl to be honoured at BBC Folk Awards

Spotted in the news this week - read more here in the Telegraph.

• Ewan MacColl materials in the Whittaker Library at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - click here.

Ewan MacColl Remembered

The Bibliolore blog has posted a piece about Ewan MacColl this week.  If you were at the Blood and Roses concert at Celtic Connections, maybe you'd be interested in this: 

Ewan MacColl and the BBC

Ewan MacColl, 20th Century Grand Old Man of Folk

 Ewan MacColl (1915-1989)

Ask many an American or British folk music enthusiast over 40 to name prominent folksingers of the mid-20th century, and they'll probably name Ewan MacColl and his wife, Peggy Seeger.

Peggy Seeger's website offers a wealth of information about both of them.  Here's the link for Ewan MacColl.

'Whittaker' will be mentioning Ewan (briefly) at a lecture to some of our Scottish music students this morning.  Specifically, there'll be reference to his The Singing Island published collection (1960), and a setting of one of his songs in a brand new Faber folksong compilation, The Language of Folk (2013).  Both in the Whittaker Library collection, naturally.