Tour Scotland Video Fiona Ritchie Doug Orr The Wayfaring Stranger Book Launch Perth Perthshire

Tour Scotland video of Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr at the Scottish book launch of Wayfaring Stranger at the Norrie Miller Studio in Perth Concert Hall on visit to Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. Fiona Karen Ritchie MBE is a Scottish radio broadcaster best known as the producer and host of The Thistle & Shamrock, an hour long Celtic music program that airs weekly throughout the United States on National Public Radio. Doug Orr is president emeritus of Warren Wilson College, where he founded the Swannanoa Gathering music workshops. Wayfaring Strangers; The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. In Wayfaring Strangers, Fiona Ritchie and Doug Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

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