This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SongsWikipedia:WikiProject SongsTemplate:WikiProject Songssong articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Scotland, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Scotland and Scotland-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ScotlandWikipedia:WikiProject ScotlandTemplate:WikiProject ScotlandScotland articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Scottish Islands, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of islands in Scotland on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Scottish IslandsWikipedia:WikiProject Scottish IslandsTemplate:WikiProject Scottish IslandsScottish Islands articles
With the recent edits, this article has gone way off topic. It needs to be corrected, which I shall do unless anyone objects.Hohenloh + 16:39, 28 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Can a song composed as recently as the 1930's, by a known composer, be called a folk song?Royalcourtier (talk) 07:34, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Why not? It certainly functions as one, being covered by bands from the best-known to the most obscure at events of all kinds. Perhaps you're thinking of the difference between trad. folk and contemporary folk music, but in the case of Mairi's Wedding it's getting hard to say which of the two it is, known author or not; not many people now alive can recall 1934, and even 1959 is becoming a distant memory. Perhaps a song that people have taken to their heart as folk is the epitome of a living tradition. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]
