Global Village Bard

Global Village Bard is a collaboration based around song translation. Songs by Scottish bard and translator Thomas Beavitt and associates...

Global Village Bard is a collaboration based around song translation. Songs by Scottish bard and translator Thomas Beavitt and associates are presented in Russian and English with original artwork and subtitles.

The project combines canonic Russian verse, songs from the Scottish bardic tradition and original songs written in both languages.

С площадки марса | Perch Amongst the Wires features Beavitt’s authorial voice as interpreted by contemporary Russian translators.

Linked by their common birthday (25th Jan), Бёрнс & Vysotsky compares the poetic voices of Robert Burns and Vladimir Vysotsky.

Святые и грешники | Saints & Sinners features the voices of two Ural poets, Boris Petrov and Alexandr Zyryanov.

Жив поэт | The Bard is Not Dead! reunites the poetic voice of the Russian poet M.Y. Lermontov with that of his mediaeval Scottish progenitor Thomas “the Rhymer” Learmonth.

Военные песни | Songs of the Great Patriotic War presents English translations of iconic Russian songs.