Music
Several songs, ballads and musical scores have been associated with the Fraser name over the years. Alexander MacDonald wrote An Elegy on Lord Lovat after the execution of 11th Lord Lovat (a whig in 1715 and a Jacobite in 1745), who had been condemned and sentenced by his Peers after impeachment by the House of Commons.
For the first annual gathering of the Clan Fraser in Canada in 1894, Georgina Fraser Newhall wrote Fraser's Drinking Song, with music by J. Lewis Browne. In addition to Lady Saltoun's Reel and Lord Saltoun's Reel, there is Lord Lovat's Lament (as a march), and more recently, The Gathering of Clan Fraser, composed by Pipe Major Chris Stevens for the inaugural meeting of the Clan Fraser Society of New Zealand in 1993, and John McGruer's Waltz for the 1997 Clan Gathering.
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