Belle Stewart was born into a family of Highland Travellers, in a tent on the banks of the River Tay, and later settled in Blairgowrie. Hamish Henderson and the School of Scottish Studies recorded her and her family in the 1950s, and she became one of Scotland’s best loved tradition bearers. She wrote The Berryfields o’ Blair and received the British Empire Medal in 1981.
Belle Stewart
Traveller singer and songwriter; Blairgowrie
- Born
- 18 July 1906, Caputh, Perthshire
- Died
- 4 September 1997, Blairgowrie, Perthshire
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