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Norman MacCaig : Lament For Rory : A rare fiddle pibroch

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020raretunes

Making sense of a recording of the fiddling poet made by Alan Lomax in Edinburgh in 1951, with a perspective from his friend Seamus Heaney.

Norman MacCaig

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