Songs of Plants: The folklore and songs of plants with Margaret Bennett
Join Celtic Connections for an evening with renowned folklorist and folk singer Professor Margaret Bennett as she shares Scotland’s rich tradition of plants, their uses, lore, and songs.
About Songs of Plants: The folklore and songs of plants with Margaret Bennett
Her talk will be interspersed with folk singing accompanied by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, slides and archival footage from the National Library of Scotland’s Moving Image Archive.
Originally from Skye, Prof. Bennett studied folklore at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and then Ethnology (PhD) at Edinburgh University. From 1984 to 1996 she was a lecturer and researcher at the School of Scottish Studies (Edinburgh), and later contributed to the development of the BA (Hons) in Cultural Studies at UHI Orkney. She is currently a lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
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