Mairi's Wedding

[2] Mairi's Wedding was composed to recognise winning the Mòd gold medal, which is regarded as the highest singing award in Scottish Gaeldom.

She continued to sing at Gaelic concerts and céilidhs for most of her life, and died aged 91 at her native Portnahaven, Islay in 1997.

His knighthood in 1931, promoted by his friend Ramsay MacDonald, whose radical politics he shared, established him as the leading British choirmaster and a towering figure within the Glasgow musical world.

Although the choir had a vast repertoire, Roberton had inherited a particular fondness for folk music from his mother, and in addition to writing choral arrangements of traditional songs, he composed his own.

John M. Bannerman claimed that his father had written the tune for the song "Westering Home"[7] yet this was not acknowledged in Roberton's published scores.

Cuailean òir is sùilean tlàth, Mala chaol is gruaidh an àigh, Beul as binne sheinneas dàn, 'S tha mi dol ga pòsadh.

Bidh mo ghaol do Mhàiri Bhàn Dìleas, dùrachdach gu bràth; Seinnidh sinn da chèil' ar gràdh, 'S tha mi dol ga pòsadh.

Golden hair and kindly eyes, shapely brow and smiling cheeks, sweetest voice that ever sang and oh!