A celebration of 18th Century Edinburgh through the Scots poetry of Robert Fergusson, read by Billy Kay and the music and song of the period sung and played by Karine Polwart, Sarah Hoy, Steve Byrne and Gary West.
Fergusson’s Auld Reikie portrays the teeming life of Edinburgh’s closes, tenements and taverns in the 1770s through the vivid poetry of Robert Fergusson and the great Scots songs and airs that he loved.