- Garrison Keillor is a fan and admirer of Jean Redpath.
- The Governor of Kentucky appointed her as Kentucky Colonel.
- The Saltire Society presented her with Honorary Membership.
- She has earned an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling and St. Andrew's University and from the Royal Scottish Academy of Drama and Art.
- She has played hundreds of concerts across the America and recorded over three dozen albums. She has recording 323 songs written by Scotland's poet' Robert Burns and arranged by late Serge Hovey. She and Hovey worked together to produce seven volumes of Songs of Robert Burns for Philo Records. She has made four other a Capella recordings of Burns' work for Scottish records. She has recorded almost 200 songs from Burns. Her most recent recording is "A Woman of Her Time" for Jean Redpath records.
- She was one of four performers commanded to appear before Her Majesty's Queen Elizabeth II during the Queen's Jubilee Year in 1977.
- She arrived in 1961 in America and performed in San Francisco, California and Greenwich Village, New York City. Her performances led to folk music clubs and marked her arrival on America's folk music scene. She continued her academic associations as an artist-in-residence and folklore lecturer at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut from 1972 to 1976 at later in 1979 at the University of Stirling in Scotland.
- She was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but raised in Fife, Scotland. She enrolled in the School of Scottish Studies. She attended Edinburgh University and majored in Medieval Studies. Her specialty was the oral tradition of the Scottish people.
- She was awarded the M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1987 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to traditional Scottish music.
- Folk Singer.
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