Musical background (contd.)

During this time Anne also sang at the Edinburgh International Festival (Usher Hall), folk festivals throughout the UK, Hamish Henderson’s massive celebration of folk-music in Glasgow’s Kelvin Hall, BBC Gaelic radio recitals and even black-and-white television appearances: she always jokes that she appeared on telly before she had actually seen one! She also worked part-time at the School of Scottish Studies as a transcriber and researcher. In fact she expected to remain there for life.

However the performing bug bit again in 1966 when she attended a summer music school in Siena. From Italy she went to London and embarked upon five years’ classical musical training. Her teachers were the Lieder experts Helene Isepp, Ilse Wolf and Paul Hamburger.