Tour Scotland Video Border Ballad St John's Kirk Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of a young man singing a Border Ballad in St John's Kirk in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. The Anglo-Scottish border has a long tradition of balladry, such that a whole group of songs exists that are often called " border ballads ", because they were collected in that region. Border ballads, like all traditional ballads, were traditionally sung unaccompanied. There may be a repeating motif, but there is no "chorus" as in most popular songs. The supernatural is a common theme in Border ballads, as are recountings of raids and battles.

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