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Photies

World Heritage Day 2017 : Scartaglen, Co. Kerry, Ireland

Tommy Peoples, Edinburgh Fiddle Festival

Fin Moore & Tommy Peoples, Donegal, 2012

Newcastleton Traditional Music Festival

Girvan Folk Festival

Haddington Folk Festival

Willie Scott, Newcastleton

Ian MacDonald of Neilston

The Howff Folk Club, Dunfermline, 1967

Stirling Concertina Day

John Carruthers, Newcastleton

Charity Concert, Glasgow City Halls, c. 1975

Tannahill Weavers

Keith Traditional Music Festival, 1978

Concertina

 

 

Background

RareTunes was started in 2006 by Stuart Eydmann and the late Derek Hoy who saw the need for such an archive and wished to demonstrate its potential. It remains an independent, not for profit project undertaken without external funding.

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Rare

In modern Scots, 'rare' is applied to something special or particularly enjoyable. The Dictionary of the Scots Language quotes Ian Rankin in 'Black and Blue' (1999) writing: "Jings, but it was rare to be home."

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Most of the recordings here are made available under Creative Commons licences, allowing you to copy and share them freely for personal enjoyment or for educational purposes. However, commercial use or reworking and building upon the material requires the owner's agreement and the source should be credited.

Most of our recordings are archived in high quality on the Internet Archive but some are hosted as MP3s on our site server. For more information visit the FAQ page.

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