Tour Scotland Video Mairi's Wedding Scottish Country Dance Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland travel video of Mairi's Wedding Scottish Country Dance at the food market on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Perth, Perthshire. Mairi's Wedding, also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Mairi Bhan, is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman, born 1865, died 1938, for Mary C. MacNiven, born 1905, died 1997 on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National Mòd in 1934. In 1959, James B. Cosh devised a Scottish country dance to the tune, which is 40 bars, in reel time.

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