Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?

Subject: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 06 - 07:00 AM

Hello, does anybody out there know if Lizzie Higgins is still alive?

That's all...

Guest

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Effsee
Date: 22 May 06 - 07:58 AM

Lizzie passed on in 1993. Lots of info is available if you "Google" her name.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 22 May 06 - 02:55 PM

Lizzie Higgins was unquestionably the best singer I have heard. Her style was totaly captivating, hypnotic even. The audence melted away, there was just you and her and she sang straight to you. There are a couple of LPs and a fiew CD tracks arround BUT none completely capture the her performance. BUT, Doc Roe, folklorest and collector, recorded Lizzie on video when in hospital and this is a powerfull bit of tape that shows, dare I say it, some of her special magic.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 May 06 - 03:21 PM

Thanks for the info, Auldtimer. Is the video you mention commercially available or perhaps archived somewhere?

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 May 06 - 03:51 PM

I have the two LPs..I'd love to get anything else.

She stayed in her mother's shadow for so many years; it's a pity she wasn't better known.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: GUEST,Auldtimer
Date: 22 May 06 - 03:58 PM

Doc Roe,the english collector and folklorest, appeared at a fiew festivals talking about Traditional music and song and the performers. It's about four years or so since I last attended one of his workshops but he is still going arround. He has been involved in releasing some of his sound recordings on CD but trying to catch him at a festival would be your best bet. The School Of Scottish Studies in Edinburugh would also be a source of sound recorded material, for study not for sale, and more info on Lizzie Higgins.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 22 May 06 - 05:54 PM

I seem to recall references to Doc Rowe being involved with an archiving effort based at Sheffield - http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/doc_rowe.html .
or try contacting oc directly - http://www.docrowe.org.uk/contact/index.html .
Quack!
Geoff the Duck.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 22 May 06 - 06:37 PM

Musical Traditions is planning a 2-CD release of Lizzie Higgins in the (hopefully) near future. CAMSCO will carry it when it appears.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Folkiedave
Date: 22 May 06 - 06:53 PM

And Doc Rowe has his own website:

http://www.docrowe.org.uk/

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Northerner
Date: 22 May 06 - 07:00 PM

I was fortunate enough to see Lizzie singing quite often when I spent a year living in Aberdeen in the early 70s. She was a wonderful singer and a lovely person.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Diva
Date: 23 May 06 - 06:15 AM

I was lucky enough to see Lizzie a few times and she was a superb singer, lovely person too.

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 23 May 06 - 06:25 AM

I remember seeing Lizzie in Bristol many years ago with Zany Mouse. A wonderful singer and performer. The most amazing part was when she "sang" a bagpipe tune.

Subject: Lizzie Higgins what a voice
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Sep 24 - 05:17 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zO0eHt5cRg

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Sep 24 - 10:58 PM

Yup, what a voice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0mulU8zojA&list=OLAK5uy_nI928ZtDGu-iTsjZ4BA1cwk8ToX-TImrA&index=2

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Sep 24 - 02:18 AM

yes and also the ornamentation used when she sings

Subject: RE: Is Lizzie Higgins still alive?
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Sep 24 - 03:46 AM

but also what she does with her voice how she uses it like an instrument using decoration similiar to piping music