I was in the shower yesterday morning and was listening to Janice Forsyth’s Radio Program and heard her play a track from and up-coming CD called ‘Indian Summer’ by Talitha McKenzie.
She is a native New Yorker now resident in Edinburgh whose music can only be described as multicultural, learned Gaelic by reading a book, and such. The track that Janice played is called ‘Family Tree’ and it’s a song about, yes you guessed it Genealogy.
It’s a delightful little ditty comparing her family tree to an upside down real tree with “the leaves on the tree all scattered around” she sings about “ spreadsheets galore, full of progeny” and of three brothers leaving England for the Americas in the early 18th Century, one to Barbados, one to Delaware and one to what was to become Pennsylvania
You can listen to it, at least until Friday using the Listen Again function on the BBC Radio Scotland website
Hope the link works O.K. The article starts some 11 minutes into the program and the song at 12 Min 30secs. You skip through the prog in 5min blocks but in general the music is very listenable.
I think it’s a great wee song, what everyone else think?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/radioscot ... tml?janice
like a good genealogist she covers everything. I wonder if it is possible to download it 