The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129632   Message #2911832
Posted By: Anne Neilson
22-May-10 - 03:58 AM
Thread Name: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
Subject: RE: Nominations for 'new' traditional songs
"Yellow on the Broom" by Adam McNaughtan is probably halfway there in the acceptance process.
He wrote it after bring asked to review the book of the same name, written by Betsy Whyte (a Scottish Traveller, singer and storyteller). Betsy described her childhood, but the focus of the book was her mother's story - coming from a family which travelled the year round, she married into a family of Travellers which wintered in the town and she yearned for the first appearance of flower on the broom shrub in Spring, as that was the signal to go back out on the road.