Keep Matt McGinn Singing
More than 40 years after Matt’s death we are still singing his songs and laughing at his humour, so Pete Seeger’s wish has been fulfilled.
The people that have kept Matt’s music alive are undoubtedly the very ones he wrote about with affection; teachers and pupils, grandparents and grandchildren, workers and leftwing people are still passing down his songs to the next generations. A number of fans have made videos on youtube which have allowed people to access his songs easily and there have been a number of groups over the years who have organised tribute concerts and put up plaques in his memory. Matt would have loved every single one of the above, and would have enjoyed hearing his song sung in different styles and by such a variety of artists.
Here we have a list of links to articles, concerts, groups, etc.. that have all played their part in ‘Keeping Matt McGinn Singing’.
We are adding links and external references daily
- Matt McGinn on Wikipedia
- Celtic Music Radio
- Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry
- Facebook, the Matt McGinn Lives On page
- Freddie Anderson's Collected Poems and Prose
- The Glasgow Book of Days
- Glasgow Caledonian University archives
- The Glasgow Smile
- 'Glasgow with a Flourish' by Michael Meighan
- The Guardian, 'Glasgow honours folk hero..'
- Ibrox Disaster
- Linlithgow Folk Festival, Annual Tribute Concerts
- The Literature of the Irish in Britain: Autobiography and Memoir, 1725-2001
- The Patter
- Pete Seeger
- Song and Democratic Culture in Britain/ Ballad of the Q4
- Stramash and Adam McNaughton
- 'Voice of the People', a book about Hamish Henderson