They project the air of song collectors gone mad.

This gives the English words as written by the song collector and editor A.P.Graves.

He was a song collector obsessed with the idea of recovering America's vanishing oral tradition.

His work influenced Helen Creighton, one of Canada's most prolific song collectors.

He is honoured now as one of the greatest song collectors in the Cornish musical tradition.

Many of Altan's lyrics are in Gaelic, and the band members are avid song collectors who always credit their sources.

But in performance, he's not interested in coming across as a song collector; his profligate persona makes his seem more of a song forgetter.

Frank Harte, 72, Dublin traditional singer and song collector, heart attack.

Paddy Berry - singer, song collector and folklorist.

In the 1950s, song collectors from the United States toured Ireland recording its musical heritage.