Editing Jean Redpath (section)

==Career==
Jean Redpath was born in [[Edinburgh]], Scotland,<ref name="LarkinGE"/> to musical parents. Her mother knew many [[Scots language|Scots]] songs and passed them on to Jean and her brother, and her father played the [[hammered dulcimer]]. She was raised in [[Leven, Fife]],<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=The Songs of Robert Burns, Volumes 1 & 2|others=Jean Redpath|year=1996|publisher=[[Greentrax Recordings]]}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11051684/Jean-Redpath-obituary.html|title=Jean Redpath - obituary|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=2017-01-15}}</ref> Scotland, and later returned to Edinburgh, taking [[medieval]] studies at the [[University of Edinburgh]].<ref name="Obit">{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/aug/22/jean-redpath|title=Jean Redpath obituary|last=Schofield|first=Derek|date=2014-08-22|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|access-date=2017-01-15}}</ref> To help pay her way through her studies, she sang for beer money and undertook part-time work as a driving instructor and undertaker's assistant.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/13176641.Jean_Redpath/|title=Jean Redpath|website=HeraldScotland.com|access-date=2017-01-15}}</ref>

The Scottish poet and folk-song collector [[Hamish Henderson]] was working in the [[School of Scottish Studies]] at the university and Redpath took a keen interest in the archive of tapes and discs of music and songs. She learned about 400 songs, together with the oral folklore that went with them. In March 1961, at the age of 24, she arrived in the United States with just eleven dollars in her pocket.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.linnrecords.com/artist-jean-redpath.aspx|title=Linn Records - Jean Redpath|website=Linnrecords.com|access-date=2017-01-15|archive-date=2 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202081057/http://www.linnrecords.com/artist-jean-redpath.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> Her first performance was in [[San Francisco]]. Later she met up with [[Ramblin' Jack Elliott]] and [[Bob Dylan]] in [[Greenwich Village]]. The natural warmth and power of her voice brought her to perform at [[Gerde's Folk City]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> In 1963, following a concert performance, she signed with [[Elektra Records]]. In 1975, she switched to the Philo label. From 1972 to 1976, Redpath was artist-in-residence at [[Wesleyan University]] in [[Middletown, Connecticut]].<ref name="LarkinGE"/> She lectured in folklore and acted as cultural resource in the local school system.<ref name=":0" />

In 1976, Redpath embarked on a project to record all the songs of [[Robert Burns]], some being folk songs, some Burns's own compositions, and most a mixture of the two. Twenty-two volumes were planned, but when her collaborator, the composer [[Serge Hovey]], died after seven volumes, the project came to a premature end. Hovey had done the instrumental arrangements for 323 songs, and Redpath felt no other musician could replace him. The albums won critical praise from around the world. In 1986, she recorded ''Lady Nairne'', a collection of songs written by Scottish women. Redpath sensitively reconstructed songs that might otherwise have been lost. Between 1974 and 1987, Redpath appeared regularly on [[Garrison Keillor]]'s "[[A Prairie Home Companion]]" APM radio show. She also appeared on [[Robert J. Lurtsema]]'s "[[Morning pro musica]]" broadcast from [[WGBH (FM)|WGBH]] in [[Boston]].<ref name=":1" />

Redpath toured throughout the U.S. and Canada, played venues in South America, Hong Kong, and Australia, including the [[Sydney Opera House]], and performed often at the [[Edinburgh Folk Festival]]. In 1977, Royal Jubilee Year, Redpath appeared at a royal banquet at [[Edinburgh Castle]] for [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-jean-redpath-mbe-1-3518648|title=Obituary: Jean Redpath MBE|website=Scotsman.com|access-date=2017-01-15}}</ref>

Starting in 1979, Redpath was a lecturer at the [[University of Stirling]], Scotland, with occasional trips to teach at [[Wesleyan University]].<ref>{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p838/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Jean Redpath|last=Brennan|first=Sandra|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=17 May 2010}}</ref> She gave courses for ten years  in Scottish Song at the Heritage of Scotland Summer School at the [[University of Stirling]].

She was awarded the [[Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire|MBE]] in 1987, as well as being named a [[Kentucky colonel]] by the Governor of [[Kentucky]]. Redpath also received honorary doctorates from the [[Royal Conservatoire of Scotland]], [[University of Stirling]] and the [[University of St Andrews]], and was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2008.<ref name=":3" /> A portrait of Redpath by [[Alexander Fraser (artist)|Alexander Fraser]] hangs in the [[Scottish National Portrait Gallery]] in Edinburgh.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title = Jean Redpath, 1937 - 2014. Singer and lecturer − Alexander 'Sandy' Fraser|url = https://www.nationalgalleries.org/object/PG%203110|website =Nationalgalleries.org|access-date = 2016-01-19}}</ref> In 1996, she launched the Burns International Festival.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

In 2009, Redpath made an appearance on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'', singing "Some Kind of Love" by the late [[John Stewart (folk musician)|John Stewart]] of [[The Kingston Trio]]. Letterman promoted her album ''By Request'' during her appearance, although the song "Some Kind of Love" does not appear on that album. This led to some confusion for viewers who wished to obtain a recorded version of the song.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}}

In 2011, she returned to her [[alma mater]] to become artist-in-residence at the [[University of Edinburgh]]’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies.<ref name=":2" /> She kept her links to Scotland, owning a house in [[Elie and Earlsferry|Elie]] during her life.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eliehistory.com/explore/local-worthies-jean-redpath-mbe/|title=LOCAL WORTHIES - Jean Redpath MBE (1937-2014)|date=6 November 2016|website=Eliehistory.com|access-date=29 March 2019}}</ref>