Australia, including the Sydney Opera House, and performed often at the Edinburgh Folk Festival. In 1977, Royal Jubilee Year, Redpath appeared at a royal banquet at Edinburgh Castle for Queen Elizabeth II. Starting in 1979, Redpath was a lecturer at the University of Stirling, Scotland, with occasional trips to teach at Wesleyan University. She gave courses for ten years in Scottish Song at the Heritage of Scotland Summer School at the University of Stirling. She was awarded the MBE in 1987, as well as being named a Kentucky colonel by the Governor of Kentucky. Redpath also received honorary doctorates from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Stirling and the University of St Andrews, and was inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame in 2008. A portrait of Redpath by Alexander Fraser hangs in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. In 1996, she launched the Burns International Festival. In 2009, Redpath made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman, singing "Some Kind of Love" by the late John Stewart of the Kingston Trio. Letterman promoted her album By Request during her appearance, although the song "Some Kind of Love" does not appear on that album. This led to some confusion for viewers who wished to obtain a recorded version of the song. In 2011, she returned to her alma mater to become artist-in-residence at the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies. She kept her links to Scotland owning a house in Elie during her life. Death and legacy Redpath died from cancer on 21 August 2014 at a hospice in Tucson, Arizona. In the town where Redpath was raised, Leven in Fife, there is a street named in her honour: Jean Redpath Wynd. Discography Skipping Barefoot Through the Heather (1962) Prestige PR 13020 Scottish Ballad Book (1962) Elektra EKL 214 Laddie Lie Near Me (1963) Elektra EKL 274 Songs of Love, Lilt, Laughter (1963) Elektra EKL 224 Frae My Ain Countrie (1973) Folk Legacy FSS 49 Jean Redpath (1975) Philo PH 2015 Songs of Robert Burns vol. 1 (1976) Philo PH 1037 There were Minstrels (1977) Trailer LER 2106 Song of the Seals (1978) Philo PH 1054 Father Adam (1979) Philo PH 1061 Lowlands (1980) Philo PH 1061 Songs of Robert Burns vol. 2 (1980) Philo PH 1048 Songs of Robert Burns vol. 3 (1981) Philo PH 1071 Songs of Robert Burns