Jean Sutherland Explained

Jean Sutherland
Birth Date:6 January 1907
Birth Place:Glasgow, Scotland
Death Place:Newburgh, Fife, Scotland
Occupation:Writer, performer and photographer
Nationality:Scottish

Jean Sutherland (1907-2006) was a writer, performer and photographer, who lived for most of her life in the village of Newburgh, in Fife, Scotland.

Her photographs of Fife locals and events appeared from the early 1960s to the 1990s in the Fife Herald and The Courier,[1] for whom she contributed articles on the history of Newburgh.

A lifelong collector and performer of poems and songs, she performed from the 1960s with The Fife Yokels,[2] recording a number of LPs[3] and appearing on Grampian Television's Bothy Nichts programmes. Sutherland wrote a number of original songs, including "Among The Neeps" and "The Barley".[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Newburgh Street Scene . National Museums of Scotland . 1 September 2009.
  2. Web site: The Fife Yokels . Footstompin' . 1 September 2009.
  3. Web site: The Fife Yokels on CD . Footstompin' . 1 September 2009.
  4. Web site: Among The Neeps and The Barley . Springthyme . 1 September 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090807222306/http://www.springthyme.co.uk/ah004/ah004fifesing3go.php . 7 August 2009 .