Angela Brazil

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Angela Brazil: English Gypsy singer. The daughter of Weenie Brazil, one of the 15 children of William and Priscilla Brazil.  Weenie's family were camped on the berryfields of Blairgowrie during the July/August berrypicking season of 1955, when both he and his daughter were recorded by Hamish Henderson for the School of Scottish Studies.

Also recorded by Peter Kennedy, who gave her name as Angela Brasil.

Some of her songs can be heard on the Musical Traditions 3-CD set The Brazil Family: Down by the Old Riverside (MTCD345-7).