Amanda MacLean

{{short description|Scottish writer and singer}} {{Multiple issues| {{notability|1=Biographies|date=January 2024}} {{notability|1=Music|date=January 2024}} }}

'''Amanda MacLean''' is a Scottish writer and singer of folk music.

==Sharps Folk Club== MacLean has been one of the organisers of Sharp's Folk Club for several years.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Programme |url=https://www.sharpsfolkclub.co.uk/programme |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=Sharp's Folk Club}}</ref> She started during the COVID-19 pandemic when many of the sessions and sing arounds occurred virtually.<ref>{{Cite web |last=MacLean |first=Amanda |date=September 28, 2020 |title=Hats off to the Sharp's Folk Club crowd for keeping a light burning in the darkness |url=https://folklondon.co.uk/2020/09/hats-off-to-the-sharps-folk-club-crowd-for-keeping-a-light-burning-in-the-darkness/ |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=Folk London}}</ref> Under her leadership, the club embraced online broadcast and recorded all of the songs sung by contributors.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Phillips |first1=Tony |title=The Music Keeps Rolling On |url=https://www.rollingon.org/?page_id=13 |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=Rolling on 2021|date=26 May 2021 }}</ref> The club continues to run weekly.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Club guide |url=https://folklondon.co.uk/club-guide/ |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=Folk London}}</ref>

==Other projects== MacLean sings with Alison Frosdick and Wendy Lanchin as part of the ''Rumpled Muslin'' folk trio.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rumpled Muslin |url=https://www.folkandhoney.co.uk/bristol-and-bath/rumpled-muslin-%7Cfolk-band-%7C-gig-listings-a6775/ |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=Folk and Honey}}</ref>

She has also published three journal articles and a novel, each exploring the history of a traditional British folk song and its relation to real-world history: * {{Cite journal |date=2011 |title=The Sad Fate and Splendid Career of the Trumpeter of Fyvie |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23208182 |journal=Folk Music Journal |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=89–101 |jstor= 23208182|issn=0531-9684 |last1= MacLean|first1= Amanda}} * {{Cite journal |last= |first= |date=2016 |title=Review of Bludie Harlaw: Realities, Myths, Ballads |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44987595 |journal=Folk Music Journal |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=81–82 |jstor= 44987595|issn=0531-9684 }} * {{Cite book |title=The Flax Flower |publisher=Lulu.com |year=2015 |isbn=9781326088422}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Atkinson |first=David |date=2016 |title=Review of The Flax Flower |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44987604 |journal=Folk Music Journal |volume=11 |issue=1 |pages=96–97 |jstor=44987604 |issn=0531-9684}}</ref> * {{Cite journal |date=2023 |title=Dropping Stones and Opening Doors on to 'Mill o' Tifty's Annie' |url=https://www.efdss.org/?view=article&id=12176:folk-music-journal-volume-12-number-3&catid=44:about-us# |journal=Folk Music Journal |volume=23 |issue=3}} * MacLean contributed a recording of Mill O Tifty's Annie to Oli Steadman's ''365 Days Of Folk'' project on January 19, 2024,{{Cn|date=January 2024}} marking the 346th anniversary of Agnes Tifty's death.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mill Of Tifty's Annie Song |url=https://www.scottish-country-dancing-dictionary.com/mill-of-tiftys-annie.html |access-date=January 25, 2024 |website=Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary}}</ref> The recording followed the standard text.

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