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Jimmie Macgregor MBE (born 10 March 1930) is a Scottish folksinger and broadcaster, best known as half of a singing duo with Robin Hall. [1]
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| Born | 10 March 1930 |
Jimmie Macgregor MBE (born 10 March 1930) is a Scottish folksinger and broadcaster, best known as half of a singing duo with Robin Hall. [1]
Jimmie Macgregor was born in Springburn, Glasgow, Scotland, [2] and grew up in a tenement and then a council house, about which he has said: "Our house was a focus for people to gather and make music.... I had aunties and cousins who were chorus girls." [3] After doing his national service, he studied at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in the mid-1950s and becoming a potter and teacher. [2]
In 1960, he formed a musical partnership with Robin Hall that would last 20 years. [4] They appeared extensively on BBC Television – both on the Tonight programme [3] and on the White Heather Club . [5] Both also played as part of The Galliards with Leon Rosselson and Shirley Bland. [2]
Hall and Macgregor recorded over 20 albums during their partnership, which ended in 1981. [4] [6] One of their most successful singles was the anthem "Football Crazy", released in 1960 on Decca Records.
Macgregor went on to make television programmes for BBC Scotland, many on long-distance walking, including In the Footsteps of Bonnie Prince Charlie, On The West Highland Way , and Macgregor Across Scotland. He also made Macgregor's Gathering, a long-running show for Radio Scotland. [2] He has been involved in various conservation organisations, among them the Association for the Protection of Rural Scotland, [7] and was awarded the MBE in 1994 for services to Scottish heritage and culture. [8]
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Scottish folk music is a genre of folk music that uses forms that are identified as part of the Scottish musical tradition. There is evidence that there was a flourishing culture of popular music in Scotland during the late Middle Ages, but the only song with a melody to survive from this period is the "Pleugh Song". After the Reformation, the secular popular tradition of music continued, despite attempts by the Kirk, particularly in the Lowlands, to suppress dancing and events like penny weddings. The first clear reference to the use of the Highland bagpipes mentions their use at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh in 1547. The Highlands in the early seventeenth century saw the development of piping families including the MacCrimmons, MacArthurs, MacGregors and the Mackays of Gairloch. There is also evidence of adoption of the fiddle in the Highlands. Well-known musicians included the fiddler Pattie Birnie and the piper Habbie Simpson. This tradition continued into the nineteenth century, with major figures such as the fiddlers Niel and his son Nathaniel Gow. There is evidence of ballads from this period. Some may date back to the late Medieval era and deal with events and people that can be traced back as far as the thirteenth century. They remained an oral tradition until they were collected as folk songs in the eighteenth century.
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