Jean Sutherland (1907-2006) was a writer, performer and photographer, who lived for most of her life in the village of Newburgh, in

Fife Fife (, ; gd, Fìobha, ; sco, Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland. It is situated between the Firth of Tay and the Firth of Forth, with inland boundaries with Perth and Kinross (i ...

, Scotland. Her photographs of Fife locals and events appeared from the early 1960s to the 1990s in the '' Fife Herald'' and '' The Courier'', for whom she contributed articles on the history of Newburgh. A lifelong collector and performer of poems and songs, she performed from the 1960s with The Fife Yokels, recording a number of LPs and appearing on Grampian Television's ''Bothy Nichts'' programmes. Sutherland wrote a number of original songs, including "Among The Neeps" and "The Barley".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sutherland, Jean 1907 births Scottish male songwriters Scottish artists Scottish photographers 2006 deaths Scottish women artists Scottish women photographers