Emeritus Professor Tony Barrand is remembered fondly after passing away

The Anthropology Department mourns Emeritus Professor Tony Barrand after his passing. He is remembered fondly by faculty.
Professor Nancy Smith-Hefner writes:
Augusto Ferraiuolo has posted that Emeritus Professor Tony Barrand has passed away. He is remembered fondly.
Professor Frank Korom writes:
Our former, most talented colleague, Tony Barrand, is no more. He was a living treasure of British folklore, and I feel privileged to have known and worked with him. Here he is singing a classic with his lifelong cohort John Roberts on concertina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=RtccHA-_clo&fbclid=IwAR3DUGdzWaRQquCInaOe2vewc_3yASDJrCpTkmUC1UOgmagYH57eiidwPeQ
Professor Bob Hefner writes:
What a loss Tony Barrand’s passing is! Tony came to BU a year before I did. He was hired into the University Professors’ program, but the chair of anthropology at the time, the celebrated Mayanist Dennis Tedlock, was a huge fan of artistic performance and he thought Tony’s Morris dancing and Irish-Welsh-Scottish folk singing might attract students to anthropology. Dennis was right. Tony already had an international recording career, and was well known even in those pre-internet/ you-tube days. However, Tony’s Ph.D. had been in psychology (with a focus on musical perception) and, although he released many records and tapes, he didn’t publish much. So when he came up for tenure in UP and Anthropology, the University Professors program voted not to give him tenure. The president of BU at the time, the “infamous” John Silber, had a side to him that many people at BU didn’t know of: he appreciated unconventional genius. So he asked Tony to perform at a meeting of the Board of Trustees – which Tony did, with his beautiful booming voice, ribald stage humor, and ever-ready twinkle in his eye. Tony got a standing ovation – and a month or so later, tenure. It was a different BU and a different generation of students in those days, and students flocked to Tony’s performance oriented courses, and from there into other anthropology courses.
Ever fit and even athletic in his singing and dancing, Tony some years ago was diagnosed with (if I am not mistaken) muscular dystrophy. As you can see if you look him up on Youtube, he continued to sing and perform, although doing so from wheelchair. The voice and the spirit remained strong. Dennis Tedlock and (ironically) John Silber were right: Tony was one of the most unique creative geniuses ever to come through anthropology. May he rest in peace.