Stanley Robertson

Stanley Robertson was a Scottish storyteller, author, ballad singer, and piper. He was born in Aberdeen in 1940 into a Romani family which had settled there. He worked for thirty-nine years as a fish filleter in the city. From his aunt, folk singer Jeannie Robertson, and others including his father, he inherited a huge repertoire of northeast ballads. He was the keyworker for the Heritage Lottery-funded "Oral and Cultural Traditions of Scottish Travellers" project at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, from April 2002 until April 2005. As a member of the Romani community, Robertson documented the group's lore and that of his own, and promoted the cultural traditions of Scottish Romani among young people in schools and community groups. His storytelling was affected by the different trades at which he worked, including his long years spent filleting in the Aberdeen fish houses, where he gathered many contemporary stories. In June 2003, he represented the University of Aberdeen and Scotland at the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C. He published three plays and seven books, some written in his local Scots dialect. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)