This is a beautiful recording of the ‘bairns’ (children) of Orkneys voices. Part of the New Year Song, as still sung at New Year’s Eve by some of the children in Burray. c 1960 – 1975

COPYRIGHT CONTROL Thank you to the Ernest Marwick Collection and Orkney Library and Archives for the permission to use this recording. All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, lending, public performance and broadcasting of this recording prohibited.

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