tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54408128694221181412024-03-17T15:18:49.896-07:00PKIMAGE - MUSICFOOTNOTESSCOTTISH ARTS & MUSIC since 2007. Imagining SCOTIA! Photographer & Blogger - Musicnotes, Poetrynotes, Histories, Celtic Connections, Edinburgh festivals. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger957125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-54417794082722970002024-02-29T14:35:00.000-08:002024-03-07T16:40:56.614-08:00CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2024 Review & PHOTOS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nw32h33EURFk6qH6pbW1lZTU5JbEUjPPtIVYFI08Z0cATjKkdHQm9xz4QPW-cSPnqeyC5wTA1fI_CarxTWDZCKsaFyK9gPQTacqexW0gyUppOcjq6ZqPuCv4b3ajV8UOn956QQmzm35gX9ZwAAyyaPqbfCPA3HMADBgZUUNNWRY4MeGUdsgOFfTmQ5JQ/s700/kinnaris.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1nw32h33EURFk6qH6pbW1lZTU5JbEUjPPtIVYFI08Z0cATjKkdHQm9xz4QPW-cSPnqeyC5wTA1fI_CarxTWDZCKsaFyK9gPQTacqexW0gyUppOcjq6ZqPuCv4b3ajV8UOn956QQmzm35gX9ZwAAyyaPqbfCPA3HMADBgZUUNNWRY4MeGUdsgOFfTmQ5JQ/w640-h426/kinnaris.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpguOj2DRCJ22lel_3hI5m7SGRxLUcSWMy6HBsbDwyJJNucIkIiId0hUQzuzGzAmQ1pAKgTUjU8TMhIJZ3Ds8Rt_ht1j-NotgiFN_Xv0legZZ3kbz6TNvTqyb4gfINQ1QXRzDUabfoJiY9VfvCTFFrvtQCjl5Ki5OCp7zfCfFbnEMegAYy-g7vCAiafW3/s700/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghpguOj2DRCJ22lel_3hI5m7SGRxLUcSWMy6HBsbDwyJJNucIkIiId0hUQzuzGzAmQ1pAKgTUjU8TMhIJZ3Ds8Rt_ht1j-NotgiFN_Xv0legZZ3kbz6TNvTqyb4gfINQ1QXRzDUabfoJiY9VfvCTFFrvtQCjl5Ki5OCp7zfCfFbnEMegAYy-g7vCAiafW3/w640-h426/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk9.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kinnaris</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIEMevFh84Bvd57wWbGHf658Hkx2svKSYI06IyWPMzdAH72trnCk5mIXEIxWNgMyXFItcT6DYXmgwxJEiTQs29mWKtjQU5Jgr3L4jSMuyIeSKwKcGumqGbNLUV44c11-qqzDrk-Af9O9FbwXXV_zZmWyElbGsjJqR3-zY3qrj5OJjuFCAgNS2TtYDWW0Z/s700/juliefowlis.kinnaris.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhIEMevFh84Bvd57wWbGHf658Hkx2svKSYI06IyWPMzdAH72trnCk5mIXEIxWNgMyXFItcT6DYXmgwxJEiTQs29mWKtjQU5Jgr3L4jSMuyIeSKwKcGumqGbNLUV44c11-qqzDrk-Af9O9FbwXXV_zZmWyElbGsjJqR3-zY3qrj5OJjuFCAgNS2TtYDWW0Z/w640-h426/juliefowlis.kinnaris.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6vD-qP52Nvjs93Z5LJTYJ-atp5y_BXo6qyBCwLMbWNdf-vIil1A5fph_9o0wzYjoad7RtaJfBILd09suXw_Mo2Wdg2tdcmO-SrijRWdvhdRaK4mK9q2yDaTPgs42w9DkJG3Sw6qJTvitZ39yZ_9ZDlvXxJ2WL7GYjeM4yny-EzrRr5dkUNaXD8gyfnzEw/s6810/IHFqnRSB.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4540" data-original-width="6810" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6vD-qP52Nvjs93Z5LJTYJ-atp5y_BXo6qyBCwLMbWNdf-vIil1A5fph_9o0wzYjoad7RtaJfBILd09suXw_Mo2Wdg2tdcmO-SrijRWdvhdRaK4mK9q2yDaTPgs42w9DkJG3Sw6qJTvitZ39yZ_9ZDlvXxJ2WL7GYjeM4yny-EzrRr5dkUNaXD8gyfnzEw/w640-h426/IHFqnRSB.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Cambria; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">One aspect of folk music is its inclusive, open culture – its for everyone. Its not about a few musicians on stage. All can sing the choruses, dance, clap. This year traditional Scots musician Dick Gaughan made a surprise appearance at the concert for Red Clyde sider John MacLean. Gaughan had a stroke a few years back and has been unable to perform or play his guitar. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I remember Dick Gaughan standing near the Celtic Connections press office. He was happy to chat, maybe he remembered me from his intimate Milngavie folk club gigs, where some musicians there said he was a Scots living legend. My younger son came to hear him and was impressed with his dramatic guitar playing, and the strength of his guttural voice on his highly memorable and meaningful folk songs. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><b>Dick Gaughan</b> is a song collector, songwriter and traditional singer and musician. I remember Gaughan telling his stories while tuning his guitar - <i>The Yew Tree, What you do with what you’ve got, The Flowers of the Forrest, Westlin Winds. </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The first time I heard Robert Burns </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Parcel of Rogues</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> was Gaughan’s interpretation at the festivals Auld Lang Syne concert in 2014? I had no idea before this that Burns was such a radical reformer and like many, I had thought he mostly wrote love songs and poems. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Many of Gaughan’s generation are now getting older and I wonder who among the younger musicians can replace them? In 2012 we lost Dundonian character songwriter Michael Marra, in 2012 the iconic Scots songwriter Gerry Rafferty. (I took photos at a concert to his memory at Celtic Connections at which the Proclaimers and Rafferty’s family performed, and just last year 2023, we lost the wonderful Rab Noakes who I knew well from his concerts and taking his photos there. What an interesting gentleman and creative songwriter he was. I remember in my twenties in my folk days, we would often sing in harmonies his songs – Branch, Clear Day, Happy Days indeed! Another massive Bob Dylan fan. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvrvWQPagwo8vWHt_K6ZpyKx3fuQRWE4jCzAuLxObsBsy2iENUMqfnU3yGER1VVuJrJRjzlvWxolt6o29XwdvVtg0n_EflpVUjwYH2Yx89YfHBAX2t0nKjIUEYaeJw3ooCGxFPYGF-Gs4rM0mDMdW4rOZfX-VYDA5gXDiuEzmtdDvRFKXdzFL5nmfTvc3/s700/brownbear.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvrvWQPagwo8vWHt_K6ZpyKx3fuQRWE4jCzAuLxObsBsy2iENUMqfnU3yGER1VVuJrJRjzlvWxolt6o29XwdvVtg0n_EflpVUjwYH2Yx89YfHBAX2t0nKjIUEYaeJw3ooCGxFPYGF-Gs4rM0mDMdW4rOZfX-VYDA5gXDiuEzmtdDvRFKXdzFL5nmfTvc3/w400-h266/brownbear.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brownbear</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9maCdjG00rkKNDTHx3x6vnpmOjrO1q2q1Pmu51931xAUIYKZhJl-7RQhHm7Rmy3kkEDHC-D986oO8T3rd4Ddu6x-UUGRqGNDqDuNd80b-Ku7jN8E97JbhzG8aTJF-OtsbVWEYBvhLuZ3sWH2nTKLW0INf4Qz-R3sbkzmvqHd30oZO4AYLOcg8KGPe2M58/s700/eddie.reader.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9maCdjG00rkKNDTHx3x6vnpmOjrO1q2q1Pmu51931xAUIYKZhJl-7RQhHm7Rmy3kkEDHC-D986oO8T3rd4Ddu6x-UUGRqGNDqDuNd80b-Ku7jN8E97JbhzG8aTJF-OtsbVWEYBvhLuZ3sWH2nTKLW0INf4Qz-R3sbkzmvqHd30oZO4AYLOcg8KGPe2M58/w400-h266/eddie.reader.pk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rg4hM6IK-Y7Bty5LUYCUrAE38GvrB17ENohOT6zJalylvEKuVenGmNGtXMWeTEJTsFKGYSWyGFODCE8t0wtLa-HlkVLMzknZ9P-qZ_FJaIAA__7vsZxNqsVPSBYTYWxrFfhcYEzH7Kfe2LLub6IjBsxLlcX-FpDrGEfGmrotVo1QS0ejYdJB8nq35Ge4/s700/roddy.hart.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rg4hM6IK-Y7Bty5LUYCUrAE38GvrB17ENohOT6zJalylvEKuVenGmNGtXMWeTEJTsFKGYSWyGFODCE8t0wtLa-HlkVLMzknZ9P-qZ_FJaIAA__7vsZxNqsVPSBYTYWxrFfhcYEzH7Kfe2LLub6IjBsxLlcX-FpDrGEfGmrotVo1QS0ejYdJB8nq35Ge4/w400-h266/roddy.hart.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roddy Hart</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWJd88xi4aRBzmwv1omZWgGd9JkMzZkGZOmWMz-gcuMV3IOGrEjyvgAndXf9wAUevmdrsCg7GzNS7QP-y11lkH51zJWruAe15VQQlFilDEN-cn92jxUWHkxpG21jva28lcInt019eDTvHySU2eYJu8ndWnsP0R8doIyQ6mYSbQNEBG0anPq2GZ8b_LK_U/s700/roddy.hart.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikWJd88xi4aRBzmwv1omZWgGd9JkMzZkGZOmWMz-gcuMV3IOGrEjyvgAndXf9wAUevmdrsCg7GzNS7QP-y11lkH51zJWruAe15VQQlFilDEN-cn92jxUWHkxpG21jva28lcInt019eDTvHySU2eYJu8ndWnsP0R8doIyQ6mYSbQNEBG0anPq2GZ8b_LK_U/w400-h266/roddy.hart.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>II Celtic Connections music festival Glasgow</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I spent time abroad, worked and had my family. Years later I returned to Scotland, after nine years in Cincinnati Ohio and Chicago Illinois. While its wonderful to travel its also good to return to our roots. Later , in 2008, I discovered Celtic Connections music festival. Begun in 1994, with the likes of Aly Bain – to fill the cold empty month of January – with 66 concerts at one venue. And I felt a return to the joy of the folk world, I had inhabited years before. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">That was the first time I heard people singing in a Scots accent and Scots words. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">People travel from far and wide to enjoy this magic festival – I hear voices from Cornwall, Northern Ireland, Canada and many more. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuLEx6SP8dFzMNAq9ua-aAGiFvgKB2k91zVgaNIppAWH2qssGOXro3EhWOcxDGNELHvXm4q20efx-GWqLzbIA4jbGSysiXp3gaWpzWvXgLjZt5Ch_tQCxhXlY71SJfyk2DYJRv9TxfDou0AuWwP6vC9I9SXUIFvJJzSllNK-bYyqr008aKh0nqZG1gaz-/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYuLEx6SP8dFzMNAq9ua-aAGiFvgKB2k91zVgaNIppAWH2qssGOXro3EhWOcxDGNELHvXm4q20efx-GWqLzbIA4jbGSysiXp3gaWpzWvXgLjZt5Ch_tQCxhXlY71SJfyk2DYJRv9TxfDou0AuWwP6vC9I9SXUIFvJJzSllNK-bYyqr008aKh0nqZG1gaz-/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ceiran Ryan</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-mf2uWSJ6guk8bjIwjDdutbyeuV75RKTyUb1cICvH7XWX7ol-ruUF2S-TUY1oMdsRLLFbatXtzUH-EIJfiBnrctijWuzZ-DSf-GO1Hex-Db4AMypwwxpobMM7F5LJ43mBExrZJchvQ-n5AgS38p9bFA6nswrK8KLT_ArU8V9csEdACJ5dBj0L3xDSwNp/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq-mf2uWSJ6guk8bjIwjDdutbyeuV75RKTyUb1cICvH7XWX7ol-ruUF2S-TUY1oMdsRLLFbatXtzUH-EIJfiBnrctijWuzZ-DSf-GO1Hex-Db4AMypwwxpobMM7F5LJ43mBExrZJchvQ-n5AgS38p9bFA6nswrK8KLT_ArU8V9csEdACJ5dBj0L3xDSwNp/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgXUWjZvjnZ8i_8xzRKBaqZKEKchDm_H0aRlyLssoblXS60HD4XINzwyxu1Q5Hxq_IRn5naIYHJzpf_n1Y4WqpXvB-Nikzj63dFJlxPyIuZ09fQSb1Q2ih6ZKGYOsOpqT7_FQybz7KpAFk7T9azPEj3sEvD7TRY3jEU5Yk1SFiGlTilWslp2y8wt1ps-UA/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgXUWjZvjnZ8i_8xzRKBaqZKEKchDm_H0aRlyLssoblXS60HD4XINzwyxu1Q5Hxq_IRn5naIYHJzpf_n1Y4WqpXvB-Nikzj63dFJlxPyIuZ09fQSb1Q2ih6ZKGYOsOpqT7_FQybz7KpAFk7T9azPEj3sEvD7TRY3jEU5Yk1SFiGlTilWslp2y8wt1ps-UA/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;">II </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">World-renowned folk, roots and world music festival <b>Celtic Connections </b> - celebrated in January with 18 days of sold-out concerts, innovative musical sessions and collaborations - with 1,200 artists across 25 venues.</span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">#ccfest is the biggest winter festival of its kind in Europe, known for its eclectic mix of genres and inclusive atmosphere, celebrated over 100 sold out shows across its 300 events alongside welcoming over 115,000 attendees. Once-in-a-lifetime collaborations, rare performances from global sensations, moving tribute concerts and some of the biggest shows ever played by home grown talent were all showcased across the city for 31st edition of Celtic Connections. </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Concerts which celebrated the tradition, innovation and unifying power of music:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Opening Concert</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> welcomed the genre-defying European premiere of <b>ATTENTION! </b>from American Grammy winner <b>Chris Thile </b>(Nickel Creek) and guests <b>Rachel Sermanni, Dreamers’ Circus </b>and<b> Sarah Jarosz</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Red Clydeside: John MacLean Centenary Concert</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, celebrated the music, poetry and legacy of Scottish schoolteacher and legendary revolutionary socialist John MacLean, with an evening of passion and talent. Led by <b>Siobhan Miller</b>, <b>Eddi Reader</b>, <b>Billy Bragg </b>and <b>Karine Polwart</b>, and with a surprise performance from Scottish social protest singer <b>Dick Gaughan </b> a hugely emotional and iconic moment <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Roaming Roots Review</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, with Songs of Modern Scotland, celebrated some of the most phenomenal artists and iconic tracks. Joining host<b> Roddy Hart</b> were Biffy Clyro’s <b>Simon Neil</b>, Idlewild’s <b>Roddy Woomble </b>and <b>Rod Jones</b>, Del Amitri’s <b>Justin Currie</b>, Camera Obscura’s <b>Tracyanne Campbell</b>, singer-songwriter <b>Emma Pollock</b>,<b> Hamish Hawk</b>, Admiral Fallow’s <b>Sarah Hayes </b>and <b>Louis Abbott</b> and <b>Brownbear</b> Accompanied by <b>Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Orchestra,</b> conducted by <b>John Logan</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">The Bothy Band</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, one of the most influential Irish ensembles to revolutionise the playing of traditional music, made their mark on Celtic Connections 2024 with a highly-anticipated performance. For the first time since 1979, <b>Donal Lunny </b>on bouzouki, <b>Tríona ní Dhomhnaill</b> on keyboards, <b>Matt Molloy</b> on flute, <b>Paddy Keenan</b> on Uilleann pipes and low whistle, and <b>Paddy Glackin</b> and <b>Kevin Burke</b> on fiddle came together to perform their first full-scale public concert, joined by <b>Seán Óg Graham</b> on guitar<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Always a Celtic Connections highlight, <b>Transatlantic Sessions </b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">celebrated the rich musical traditions that connect Scotland, Ireland and the US. Featuring a top line-up of the awesome TS band and artists - AmericanaFest’s “Can’t Miss Act” <b>Lindsay Lou</b>, Grammy nominated singer-songwriter <b>Carlene Carter</b>, Irish folk singer-songwriter <b>Joshua Burnside</b>, Scots Trad Music Awards Gaelic singer of the year <b>Kim Carnie, </b>the night saw audiences soak up an exceptional array of tunes, songs and genres.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Concert to celebrate legacy of Tiree accordionist Gordon Connell - <b>A Ceilidh for Gordon</b> at iconic Old Fruitmarket. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Grammy nominee and multi-award-winning musician <b>Allison Russell </b>wowed crowds at Òran Mór <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Traditional Music and Song Association</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> revisited the landmark Scots Women concert from the 2001 festival. <b>Scots Women - Generations o' Change with </b>Musical Director <b>Iona Fyfe</b> and hosted by Scots Poet <b>Len Pennie</b>.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Showcase Scotland</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, highlighted partners Norway with international delegates from all over the UK, Europe, Australia, America and Canada to join in appreciation of the Scandinavian talent playing at the festival - violinist<b> Julie Alapnes</b>, fiddle player <b>Alexander Aga Røynstrand</b>, traditional trios<b> Erlend Viken</b> and <b>Ævestaden</b>, Nordic folk five-piece<b> Gangar</b>, and Sámi band <b>Gabba</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Barony Hall proved a spectacular setting for the first time , with award-winning trad band <b>Breabach</b>, r folk musician<b> John McCusker</b>, Irish fiddler <b>Martyn Hayes</b> and multi-talented<b> Damien O’Kane</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Music workshops and teaching sessions were also in full swing over the past 18 days. From composing, bagpipes and the ukulele, participants had the chance to fully immerse themselves in every facet of the festival, while the festival’s free school concerts programme shared the joy of live music of 8,000 school children from across Scotland over the course of four morning shows<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsAEz_0iHDN-Lh5W3kOORLl05_nH3A6I6-S9nWuwjxhkOt4HUweDgzZpWqsUx6MkHGxmzRNAYypBqNKsGOH7u5k2kqj7ZXW4kX9muypN_Zf_Hl1abwgg3UIn03ud2OnkYaHTDTF1JS7zHXZz0Xmxy8iZ_aykS6x0HgPl2sFK-LtO3cAfA5zSJjuv5bMWF/s800/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="800" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtsAEz_0iHDN-Lh5W3kOORLl05_nH3A6I6-S9nWuwjxhkOt4HUweDgzZpWqsUx6MkHGxmzRNAYypBqNKsGOH7u5k2kqj7ZXW4kX9muypN_Zf_Hl1abwgg3UIn03ud2OnkYaHTDTF1JS7zHXZz0Xmxy8iZ_aykS6x0HgPl2sFK-LtO3cAfA5zSJjuv5bMWF/w640-h414/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLbOqfHEFETwUuwqjJjInmHnOshPRe5Zcbg0IMBXMq4-pzgbhQYpz9Mc6l6xD1qiKZHRZ9Eg3URWaQ7JAqWw5GeyyV6-GAH5ucsTOhX6x_TqRo7eqZmkpPVg8Plw2sB0uVbtFs6nhbBq5a9gSm4zJz4lTkqN-tBwXt761kXJ9k9B3x8h9OtUQJYRphHzO/s800/dougie.maclean.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRLbOqfHEFETwUuwqjJjInmHnOshPRe5Zcbg0IMBXMq4-pzgbhQYpz9Mc6l6xD1qiKZHRZ9Eg3URWaQ7JAqWw5GeyyV6-GAH5ucsTOhX6x_TqRo7eqZmkpPVg8Plw2sB0uVbtFs6nhbBq5a9gSm4zJz4lTkqN-tBwXt761kXJ9k9B3x8h9OtUQJYRphHzO/w640-h398/dougie.maclean.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dougie MacLean 50th anniversary concert</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm;"><b style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Donald Shaw, Creative Producer for Celtic Connections, said</span></b><span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">: "This year's Celtic Connections was a testament to the creative power and enduring importance of the arts and the music of the people. The richness of talent on display, the diverse range of genres and the infectious enthusiasm of the audiences made this year’s edition truly special. It's heartening to see the festival grow and evolve, bringing together artists and audiences from all walks of life, joined by a shared appreciation for music, art and cultural expression. “The continued success of Celtic Connections reflects the passion and commitment of everyone involved. My thanks goes to each person who bought a ticket, performed on our stages, volunteered their time, worked on or backed the event, and to the people of Glasgow who welcomed the world with open arms. Your support is the heartbeat of the festival, and it's your enthusiasm and dedication that make this celebration of music possible year after year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">“Scotland has a rich tapestry of musical traditions, and Celtic Connections is a platform that showcases the beauty and diversity of our own folk music, as well as that of other countries, and the expansive connections it has created. I am immensely proud of how well Scotland continues to champion folk music on the global stage, and feel truly excited about the path that lies ahead for what we’re proud to say has become a world-renowned event.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Glasgow Life Chair, Bailie Annette Christie, said:</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> “This 31<sup>st</sup> edition of Celtic Connections has not only demonstrated how internationally renowned and much-loved this unique festival is, it has also emphasised how immeasurably important it is to Glasgow and to Scotland – and we look forward to building on its incredible legacy in future years.”</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EDUa_0GyEUeohfFUizNeSlna532bRFgav0IE9JypKXgWldZBM8gI9EZQOOne5OHOo92gO-VH6Yca4fkFzcNOvOs_S-t1l7qaPWdtlW5rU4Nc1fkuyV0XI8arts-WquIamp_Kzd199YqCUa-rdzh5vCrR-FbLPXOt8ARBMAJkmL9CP_5Tl6hfygUW64RW/s700/transatlantic.sessions.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="700" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7EDUa_0GyEUeohfFUizNeSlna532bRFgav0IE9JypKXgWldZBM8gI9EZQOOne5OHOo92gO-VH6Yca4fkFzcNOvOs_S-t1l7qaPWdtlW5rU4Nc1fkuyV0XI8arts-WquIamp_Kzd199YqCUa-rdzh5vCrR-FbLPXOt8ARBMAJkmL9CP_5Tl6hfygUW64RW/w640-h356/transatlantic.sessions.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Transatlantic Sessions 2024</td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRgEyWobZ-wRlCuhbYy9aCDHlh0X7n_sDkztTGjz2iC21WRIYJrQFa4lzK3Z-e1gPimAR7KGFPhbg6dhGZfA3Z8InafV9C8Eo8Ro6X1dF825doV716IMhxULHwKOOstw8H1n8BFlUgu4AVoAIr5EWJT7Brh35gpCKBIc8BDiB04fkYLBpLZvwN0xfGrpUB/s700/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRgEyWobZ-wRlCuhbYy9aCDHlh0X7n_sDkztTGjz2iC21WRIYJrQFa4lzK3Z-e1gPimAR7KGFPhbg6dhGZfA3Z8InafV9C8Eo8Ro6X1dF825doV716IMhxULHwKOOstw8H1n8BFlUgu4AVoAIr5EWJT7Brh35gpCKBIc8BDiB04fkYLBpLZvwN0xfGrpUB/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kim Carnie</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: black;"></span></div><span style="background-color: black;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXcD61WD8SpFz2XM5nQtua5im_tSuxoxqoVpH1tqNiBJWlit3ZoBHiHfxBLBL_4bXLM6L09XgnBScFTGuCVKSO7hlwICx_TtpeCRSDv_4MEzjq8GIh5tgSN11S2R1A5nY4BuuxF5B-MnFrId5Vym03HXtUkeRHri-g1KfDzr-xdUDz2jWVdJFrxwNh38m/s700/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="700" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXcD61WD8SpFz2XM5nQtua5im_tSuxoxqoVpH1tqNiBJWlit3ZoBHiHfxBLBL_4bXLM6L09XgnBScFTGuCVKSO7hlwICx_TtpeCRSDv_4MEzjq8GIh5tgSN11S2R1A5nY4BuuxF5B-MnFrId5Vym03HXtUkeRHri-g1KfDzr-xdUDz2jWVdJFrxwNh38m/w640-h420/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31_q4dDHPIC2PCmWW1pOIfDZdth1-hWDBZ4oWVjTXX5tw0ML-Swn-SyWJ7iGve1h9Z1NG71YFSbgegIYZv-2kWKZv7rx6Ile7gcWRGyJ3eKibup_9_xNt-nduULZB8fWCPFQoj9NHXy_oCagVf4aImCcumaGcNK_wSu63r1P4W1aMsC3DCseYBygFkQEx/s700/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="700" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj31_q4dDHPIC2PCmWW1pOIfDZdth1-hWDBZ4oWVjTXX5tw0ML-Swn-SyWJ7iGve1h9Z1NG71YFSbgegIYZv-2kWKZv7rx6Ile7gcWRGyJ3eKibup_9_xNt-nduULZB8fWCPFQoj9NHXy_oCagVf4aImCcumaGcNK_wSu63r1P4W1aMsC3DCseYBygFkQEx/w640-h384/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lindsay Lou</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhca3wafRC0xM5BWBoNK74ygTG_SoYFCdwYO2sI76q56UMO8mtyXLKC3tsk3trNccCvPuMLtreAXaVPViAjPE81h_At-MhQyUS6ERZqnEIrnlD4qsFbQSNCJKcXwPktBG33j5TFDbPbsLt9XG-uu25i6V_Xq5D1rVldhCC2U-1fF2vUw0KI7Ew-Ox1p8AX/s700/joshua.burnside.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="700" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhca3wafRC0xM5BWBoNK74ygTG_SoYFCdwYO2sI76q56UMO8mtyXLKC3tsk3trNccCvPuMLtreAXaVPViAjPE81h_At-MhQyUS6ERZqnEIrnlD4qsFbQSNCJKcXwPktBG33j5TFDbPbsLt9XG-uu25i6V_Xq5D1rVldhCC2U-1fF2vUw0KI7Ew-Ox1p8AX/w640-h376/joshua.burnside.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joshue Burnside</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuu3N6ADQuRXJpWSy88im4-7_tE3sv7BOlLBFy2XWKUJ178e2cisWH0gJByi8ubVg0qxCzmbaJpKVVrg1HfWwPpq1q9OMsZSKUbl9LueuvtUYETWwYc_Z0v6CFkgFPu0_4jkPb95OJ6x6Ig7funz-KVNXxdYkCfn_DA5cCIIb0JcgViQRiYUCV7fdFI9sP/s700/charlene.carter.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuu3N6ADQuRXJpWSy88im4-7_tE3sv7BOlLBFy2XWKUJ178e2cisWH0gJByi8ubVg0qxCzmbaJpKVVrg1HfWwPpq1q9OMsZSKUbl9LueuvtUYETWwYc_Z0v6CFkgFPu0_4jkPb95OJ6x6Ig7funz-KVNXxdYkCfn_DA5cCIIb0JcgViQRiYUCV7fdFI9sP/w640-h426/charlene.carter.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charlene Carter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-48069169400488015782024-02-29T14:28:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:52:16.052-08:00Lindsay Lou<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3BJuHFVZvP_RSji5YbSdr037mmuwnGq_PH7e1bzziHJy8Bg59bZxEP4Gq1LkftkazErRu5NweGUazndLR6bVCD62TPJ2N4aODs3r7BOMzz473mqUkfy21bu53tylL8M9FJw4fDfUqIMbiVemY2REDBJZWZq1D3lLS9m9518-e02dhbfBk9NEe09xBHof/s700/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="700" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3BJuHFVZvP_RSji5YbSdr037mmuwnGq_PH7e1bzziHJy8Bg59bZxEP4Gq1LkftkazErRu5NweGUazndLR6bVCD62TPJ2N4aODs3r7BOMzz473mqUkfy21bu53tylL8M9FJw4fDfUqIMbiVemY2REDBJZWZq1D3lLS9m9518-e02dhbfBk9NEe09xBHof/w640-h384/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">American singer songwriter<span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Lindsay Lou performed at the Transatlantic Sessions as part of Celtic Connections 2024</span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Lindsay's silky smooth and rhythmic voice mixes bluegrass with modern Americana. Her performance was magnetic as she danced along to her emotive songs, <i>Nothings Working and Love Calls</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">New album <i>Queen of Time</i> released 2023. #ccfest2024</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KMBDzWpM3tM97tVw37eSnNe9HKYIvEZBWzFAXnMU0MuaWBM8yAt0q5jVMxN4FpDqN3tTciZfj0dbRK2zXs4pGbzloEt2YgC71hodN97CwshbX1UiFMdKL2GW8KAlVtssEM_M8Vcz6TKl_48ySNFHkqyKTL1H3OH57VUB05id8pQgh8g3sj813SwOyllX/s700/lindsay.lou.pk1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="700" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5KMBDzWpM3tM97tVw37eSnNe9HKYIvEZBWzFAXnMU0MuaWBM8yAt0q5jVMxN4FpDqN3tTciZfj0dbRK2zXs4pGbzloEt2YgC71hodN97CwshbX1UiFMdKL2GW8KAlVtssEM_M8Vcz6TKl_48ySNFHkqyKTL1H3OH57VUB05id8pQgh8g3sj813SwOyllX/w400-h220/lindsay.lou.pk1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8YgpiRhvPvChWPoBsVnqyI4geEi_cYqzenHjIp5_qfjNAteKyaAlmGRq5OiAo6ZE6cqMBzkKLbLKVGL1fwi-sA228zi2tc-wMsge124tEgFCK3bWYr2X1sRe8jMey4y0hbz9cK4mNdz3x7kSJUpwpRahDsqIbTS-dfAsmIaFFkW5RCb8oUYlXBC4iJR2/s700/lindsay.lou.pk2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd8YgpiRhvPvChWPoBsVnqyI4geEi_cYqzenHjIp5_qfjNAteKyaAlmGRq5OiAo6ZE6cqMBzkKLbLKVGL1fwi-sA228zi2tc-wMsge124tEgFCK3bWYr2X1sRe8jMey4y0hbz9cK4mNdz3x7kSJUpwpRahDsqIbTS-dfAsmIaFFkW5RCb8oUYlXBC4iJR2/w400-h213/lindsay.lou.pk2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHnUS4vySfiuSh2OQ8WHqa4pZqr-x7uZ6JZwsH3jf38p9Alyh17ZQZ4XB62aufMSiO0ulGPDPipthGcYzpevOC5LtTzJM_Ku_n98uZ5fyeh5FlG5geSgpCpNrwToQjRN2Z95gB-ktFlLcTv6RJrRoBJOUZEMPpKWZExKuz3Lmm2J6HxMRwzVf5lyyQwHR/s700/lindsay.lou.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="700" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglHnUS4vySfiuSh2OQ8WHqa4pZqr-x7uZ6JZwsH3jf38p9Alyh17ZQZ4XB62aufMSiO0ulGPDPipthGcYzpevOC5LtTzJM_Ku_n98uZ5fyeh5FlG5geSgpCpNrwToQjRN2Z95gB-ktFlLcTv6RJrRoBJOUZEMPpKWZExKuz3Lmm2J6HxMRwzVf5lyyQwHR/w400-h240/lindsay.lou.pk3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNYTuDgULxpJXYrlXTdwqjDVNgjDCFzoYDyap-VQvzvXXLwpspyJ3vd91lT6NeId-j_I1G-Gg_DqKeBkCQXc8dXTsVchCvT6QtNxWvOUrOBzh6GG-CmLHCSN0m_5nHCVoRLpNDFh00IiU3DXF4IW1N-Q6NBvpOs4yOLSk3bbK-aTvmBgraC6rNuCGz7vw/s700/lindsay.lou.pk8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="700" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNYTuDgULxpJXYrlXTdwqjDVNgjDCFzoYDyap-VQvzvXXLwpspyJ3vd91lT6NeId-j_I1G-Gg_DqKeBkCQXc8dXTsVchCvT6QtNxWvOUrOBzh6GG-CmLHCSN0m_5nHCVoRLpNDFh00IiU3DXF4IW1N-Q6NBvpOs4yOLSk3bbK-aTvmBgraC6rNuCGz7vw/w400-h241/lindsay.lou.pk8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqKJpn3hJG1qqoUojvwxViUV_rhZyRX6Fx-SYkudAN-d9L4HFbCO7Gn5nZ19UuM9qvmdCt1yN-IpFv2hAYZnOGMRxeoibhrlWl6piVibZjLE2fEu8agAK26MgAL8t5pjMx34J-sPX-9SPPNQX7AdXUy1_SL-F1AE3QoQa6vRXxpeG10FIkPwnFz5J-Tv2/s700/lindsay.lou.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIqKJpn3hJG1qqoUojvwxViUV_rhZyRX6Fx-SYkudAN-d9L4HFbCO7Gn5nZ19UuM9qvmdCt1yN-IpFv2hAYZnOGMRxeoibhrlWl6piVibZjLE2fEu8agAK26MgAL8t5pjMx34J-sPX-9SPPNQX7AdXUy1_SL-F1AE3QoQa6vRXxpeG10FIkPwnFz5J-Tv2/w400-h266/lindsay.lou.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivID8qDDYEy6FzFOYsFvWbU0LjfGJwndJtA770Vkv_uT7k5mrIYn9z7a5P35wWeigUXug4edqJOo6tpbX8LQNYeGx2_6MRhyphenhyphenvOy58fPpHGwnjk0AEctpVVEr-NkUhIcRiNjXfzeKmDXrSdLFWjnN0XlTOD4y2UsaaCQWWLqd8xrK9IIbNKxDE_V8iqSUf/s700/lindsay.lou.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="700" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhivID8qDDYEy6FzFOYsFvWbU0LjfGJwndJtA770Vkv_uT7k5mrIYn9z7a5P35wWeigUXug4edqJOo6tpbX8LQNYeGx2_6MRhyphenhyphenvOy58fPpHGwnjk0AEctpVVEr-NkUhIcRiNjXfzeKmDXrSdLFWjnN0XlTOD4y2UsaaCQWWLqd8xrK9IIbNKxDE_V8iqSUf/w400-h251/lindsay.lou.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-86533268720551127092024-02-29T12:14:00.000-08:002024-02-29T14:37:00.320-08:00Dougie MacLean’s intimate concert Celtic Connections 2024<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxzv_gN994C9xphwriuK12quiSNEFy4p08-iVZ7u7lA88RbW23K65uEGTYJAfZGP6-0bHCRi2Sgr5pnmPngNHZPE31NeOaW6jvJ6vGN-DL830HZCTyySjruoi2A2LyQ0kawxgpG6iwKdy_L06UpR15UdsxAbbYLsyzrQb7YtytdfCWpWMD84TmWFkge__p/s800/dougie.maclean.pk1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="800" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxzv_gN994C9xphwriuK12quiSNEFy4p08-iVZ7u7lA88RbW23K65uEGTYJAfZGP6-0bHCRi2Sgr5pnmPngNHZPE31NeOaW6jvJ6vGN-DL830HZCTyySjruoi2A2LyQ0kawxgpG6iwKdy_L06UpR15UdsxAbbYLsyzrQb7YtytdfCWpWMD84TmWFkge__p/w640-h416/dougie.maclean.pk1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">An intimate evening of songs, chat, drums and pipes, through his tunes and songs with Dougie’s relaxed charm and banter - as he explored his Songbook of his 50 years in the music business. Maclean began the evening solo with some of his insightful songs - </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">All Who Wander, a</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">nd with guitarist </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Tim Edey</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">, on his songs </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Broken Wings and Wild and Windy Night. </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He always enjoys on many songs to encourage the audience to sing his sing-able choruses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggnspMhVPRDpTjXpntHxLp1aECkjQ5OXjj0vlVO1FRdZFtbikQ__RsIlBAXjyGqrzl7TBTRiC75afFklk7yyNv42_vPHoWkdQOLtn95svegK8tD_XuSxHAIEUxQ6VBNG39hHZcGvGOIG3IvAWt8tjJaiq3a3fUq1Av8qnyQCR40qTaCLupY9OcHp68c4OS/s800/dougie.maclean.pk3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="800" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggnspMhVPRDpTjXpntHxLp1aECkjQ5OXjj0vlVO1FRdZFtbikQ__RsIlBAXjyGqrzl7TBTRiC75afFklk7yyNv42_vPHoWkdQOLtn95svegK8tD_XuSxHAIEUxQ6VBNG39hHZcGvGOIG3IvAWt8tjJaiq3a3fUq1Av8qnyQCR40qTaCLupY9OcHp68c4OS/w400-h278/dougie.maclean.pk3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrG6x57Qy6LMsVl1Sc3_psOlyTnrDGPQUEk2gz2Nf92H8rM182qXbz4yXGMcimUtmRO4vckKkmEFE4P9oPTosgyoc2qaUmcYNH47NJFuikLkIY1m7lrua1Xra7KThyphenhyphenxkX60Bk1tcXuosr6DYFrT6Fdf5wI1eD0XbigFOiG2KgeJwV0YzlAEojDchIla3W/s800/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="523" data-original-width="800" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrG6x57Qy6LMsVl1Sc3_psOlyTnrDGPQUEk2gz2Nf92H8rM182qXbz4yXGMcimUtmRO4vckKkmEFE4P9oPTosgyoc2qaUmcYNH47NJFuikLkIY1m7lrua1Xra7KThyphenhyphenxkX60Bk1tcXuosr6DYFrT6Fdf5wI1eD0XbigFOiG2KgeJwV0YzlAEojDchIla3W/w400-h261/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>He was then joined on stage by a wealth of musical talent, that he has worked with over the years - with </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Hannah Fisher</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> (fiddle) </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Gordon MacLean</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> (double bass) and </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Sorren MacLean</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> (guitar), </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Jamie MacLean</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> (percussion) for several songs – </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Shadow of the Mountain</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">, </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Pabay More, Rocket to the Moon, Stolen and The Gael. </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Accordionist </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Pete Garnett</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> performed on </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Talking With My Father, Charlotte and Hide in the Wind. </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He performed a poignant </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Not Lie Down</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> with accomplished violinist </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Greg Lawson.</b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">There were several moving moments over those fellow musicians he’s lost along the way, with songs such as <i>They Hide in the Wind – when he was joined by the considerable</i> talent of <b>Ross Ainslie</b> on whistle and bagpipes. He was also backed by <b>Alan Sutherlan</b>d on piano for <i>Mists of Time and Hide in the Wind.</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5YBMLhrbaDkbCwwDdgAjT_2u-CtcOm-9L82u8WryMNrxon81ZdXFvTmJYzrIUb4dXe4I5N73tHReNqusWZUGzJoAI-UXhlcn7HlcOPkMLHDgvJsjfWY2Bj0BcR202mXQH_Eqk0V1U3SHvHccwpsPNPZqIPHRIrQ-JeKFwJm2laB3IWuMPNDHj5KUFbQW/s800/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="800" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5YBMLhrbaDkbCwwDdgAjT_2u-CtcOm-9L82u8WryMNrxon81ZdXFvTmJYzrIUb4dXe4I5N73tHReNqusWZUGzJoAI-UXhlcn7HlcOPkMLHDgvJsjfWY2Bj0BcR202mXQH_Eqk0V1U3SHvHccwpsPNPZqIPHRIrQ-JeKFwJm2laB3IWuMPNDHj5KUFbQW/w640-h414/dougie.maclean.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGiMYoykb-N1pafdoqETw3fBoMv832NW22HECJxpOxEtquBxVeybsN3yXlII_deoXipgh_exXAskMVfdcIyglhOblVFQ1dOy6uUEYn0YHOsvG5yNHztEevksi9dRVSg9nheuY7BVVx9c9-W-GTosVRHSRfeyFNnCYIiAa90i2bZ2sW-3YMVDbkbn8dFoI/s800/dougie.maclean.pk5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="800" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGiMYoykb-N1pafdoqETw3fBoMv832NW22HECJxpOxEtquBxVeybsN3yXlII_deoXipgh_exXAskMVfdcIyglhOblVFQ1dOy6uUEYn0YHOsvG5yNHztEevksi9dRVSg9nheuY7BVVx9c9-W-GTosVRHSRfeyFNnCYIiAa90i2bZ2sW-3YMVDbkbn8dFoI/w640-h398/dougie.maclean.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Dougie spoke of his grandfather, who spoke Gaelic, but he was told his native language was embarrassing, and a dead language. He remembered his grandfather in the evenings occasionally singing the beautiful Gaelic songs, when tears would run down his face. He said it is sad to loose a language and all the poetry and songs of that language. Dougie then sang a moving </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Its been Stolen From Me – </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">also backed by Ross Ainslie, as well as the impact of pipers and drummers from the Glasgow Piping centre.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">For the concert climax the Dougie played violin on his dramatic tune <i>The Gael</i> from the film The Last of the Mohicans, backed by the Pipes and Drums.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">After Dougie solo sang his positive song <i>This Love Will Carry Me. </i>Of course no Dougie MacLean concert is complete without his iconic song <i>Caledonia </i>– which has become one of our unofficial Scots anthems and is often played at weddings and other significant occasions. The concert was a celebration of one of Scotland’s songwriting legends. Many of his songs are highly emotional, connecting and uplifting. Songs of nostalgia, resilience and hope.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Dougie was also joined by musicians <b>Chris Agnew</b> on acoustic bass, and <b>Ali Fergusson</b> on electric guitar on <i>Turning Away, Hide in the Wind, The Gael and Caledonia. </i>And by <b>Chris Smith</b> on percussion, and <b>David Duncan</b> on harmonica, on <i>Turning Away, Thundering In and Caledonia.</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGULl-3qjWCvPNVSpQn_393sSjdJksde3_JQVUqQ-ZnPEhcWmvgcTBOFPHVkGHCRGKJDSweHHdJz52PXYY5KHWuDSEaL4b2fwVZIkfujbl6LI_MG3mSsbMiXWAz1FhqHRXz1rd54g4e3PteZED_FgTjSoTgdnk_aNuaMQnL-aFx96XjW58U-PIAisOrnf/s800/dougie.maclean.pk2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="800" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGULl-3qjWCvPNVSpQn_393sSjdJksde3_JQVUqQ-ZnPEhcWmvgcTBOFPHVkGHCRGKJDSweHHdJz52PXYY5KHWuDSEaL4b2fwVZIkfujbl6LI_MG3mSsbMiXWAz1FhqHRXz1rd54g4e3PteZED_FgTjSoTgdnk_aNuaMQnL-aFx96XjW58U-PIAisOrnf/w400-h263/dougie.maclean.pk2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">**SONGS</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">All Who Wander, Broken Wings, Shadow of the Mountain, Talking with My Father, Rocket to the Moon, Mists of Time, Thundering In, Turning Away, Till Tomorrow, Pabay More, Charlotte, Not Lie Down, Wild and Windy Night, Hide in the Wind, Stolen From Me, The Gael, This Love will Carry Me, Caledonia, </span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He has received three prestigious Tartan Clef Awards, a place in the Scottish Music Hall of Fame, a Lifetime Achievement Award from BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, an Honorary Doctorate and an OBE! “ </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Review & Photos Pauline Keightley - <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://pkimage.co.uk/">https://pkimage.co.uk</a></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-14603151743095025752024-02-29T09:58:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:50:55.494-08:00Dick Gaughan’s appearance at Red Clydesides John Maclean concert<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO1ILVLDXdx1gnwNpShKPkvAH7QC6lCI5C2COfDSTfcSwYPZWUJVE9GxXqJgd1WbK8ajN8MoMJdLL0o6jEE0YI7ux2Fed8poQ9Hs75yG0Wta4PkVxBHReF69fyL7IpEFRM8PfaDieR2WcdTcAUU5XpJONMwPpBkUNUmQFb7HgSDrGhywtL4Jafh04k-4js/s6163/LkVZm1iS.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4402" data-original-width="6163" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO1ILVLDXdx1gnwNpShKPkvAH7QC6lCI5C2COfDSTfcSwYPZWUJVE9GxXqJgd1WbK8ajN8MoMJdLL0o6jEE0YI7ux2Fed8poQ9Hs75yG0Wta4PkVxBHReF69fyL7IpEFRM8PfaDieR2WcdTcAUU5XpJONMwPpBkUNUmQFb7HgSDrGhywtL4Jafh04k-4js/w640-h458/LkVZm1iS.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Billy Bragg & Dick Gaughan at concert Celtic Connections 2024</td></tr></tbody></table><b><br /> </b><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">One aspect of folk music is its inclusive, open culture – its for everyone. Its not about a few musicians on stage. All can sing the choruses, dance or clap along. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">This year traditional Scots musician Dick Gaughan made a surprise appearance at the concert for Red Clydesider John MacLean to a standing ovation. Gaughan had a stroke a few years back and has been unable to perform or play his guitar. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Gaughan has become something of a legend on the Scottish and world folk circuits for more than 40 years. He is an interpreter of Scotland’s traditional folk ballads with his distinctive style of guitar playing, with open chords</span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> and timing that he learnt from guitarist <i>Davey Graham.</i> </span></b></p></span></b><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LZbztrCx8P1FLGP4ZCrOFa_lJhKj5qMkO9U4hUI3vDsH3Y6rs-iC6faiTv5_9iiLv9AWhsafxMXPaoZ_xfDyyWprVit9qQ2VqKfAmFIDtiOZzH-32AbRdqJ0gDkXGjY3KeBhgdSRW2GONMlTVA8reRyfpS6jmPENtHIUY-3YAW7iIBBmAEKH0RyPdlA5/s600/5e3ae2ef-280c-40a1-875f-b0ba00ca5079.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1LZbztrCx8P1FLGP4ZCrOFa_lJhKj5qMkO9U4hUI3vDsH3Y6rs-iC6faiTv5_9iiLv9AWhsafxMXPaoZ_xfDyyWprVit9qQ2VqKfAmFIDtiOZzH-32AbRdqJ0gDkXGjY3KeBhgdSRW2GONMlTVA8reRyfpS6jmPENtHIUY-3YAW7iIBBmAEKH0RyPdlA5/w400-h240/5e3ae2ef-280c-40a1-875f-b0ba00ca5079.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">John Maclean socialist reformer 1879 - 1923</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTiHnXOcv6uYxCJN7AoBCtFOMJ5p91PTwNgSlOWd42GTZJhv-emEBeLR8sO0iZC4KiiPvxGQtx-MuIXqmK6W90S0bnnE1xlMTX85AZVUXiWf6rngo1qHubhf2MX5jY_7YvjL1gvzjbXzpb2G__BqtKclUvVteplTaHVABTQHI2yXipRSHnvPJ3xG8I39tU/s1440/421916203_814201210514126_934647668495990881_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1440" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTiHnXOcv6uYxCJN7AoBCtFOMJ5p91PTwNgSlOWd42GTZJhv-emEBeLR8sO0iZC4KiiPvxGQtx-MuIXqmK6W90S0bnnE1xlMTX85AZVUXiWf6rngo1qHubhf2MX5jY_7YvjL1gvzjbXzpb2G__BqtKclUvVteplTaHVABTQHI2yXipRSHnvPJ3xG8I39tU/w400-h295/421916203_814201210514126_934647668495990881_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">I remember Dick Gaughan standing near the Celtic Connections press office. He was happy to chat, maybe he remembered me from the intimate Milngavie folk club concerts, where some musicians there said he was a living Scots legend. My younger son came to hear him and was impressed with his dramatic guitar playing, and the strength of his guttural voice on his highly memorable and meaningful folk songs. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Dick Gaughan is a song collector, songwriter and traditional ballad singer and musician. I remember Gaughan singing telling his stories and songs - The Yew Tree, What you do with what you’ve got, The Flowers of the Forrest, Westlin Winds,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">In 2018, Celtic Connections held a tribute concert for Dick Gaughan at the Old Fruitmarket. With the Wilson Family, guitarists Tony McManus and Martin Simpson, Karine Polwart ,The Bevvy Sisters, </span></b><b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Mary Macmaster, Patsy Seddon</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> and Dougie MacLean, They performed songs with a social conscience – of Grenfell tower monument to greed and selfishness, Aberfan disaster, miners strikes, Jute mill songs, Neil Gow’s fiddle. Where are the young voices of protest today to stand up for people’s rights? <a href="http://www.musicfootnotes.com/search?q=Dick+gaughan">DickGaughan Tribute concert 2018</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">The first time I heard Robert Burns <i>Parcel of Rogues</i> was Gaughan’s interpretation at the festivals Auld Lang Syne concert in 2009. I had no idea before this that Burns was such a radical reformer and like many, I had thought he mostly wrote his love songs and poems. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Certainly an <i>Outlaw and Dreamer</i> like no other! An inspiration.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">I have taken photos at Dick Gaughan’s concerts over the past years since 2006 and here are some of them. </span></b></p></div><br /></span></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghuz2t2pYcZ-GM7xMSEPGgVsmsV9sbofb4n5B_QWIj8MtOT4Ha6fnYOUv7n768fSv91ZB7SwnAJr6GyyDM_YfBQBq1O52LqnmGJnxfI0kt9nbCkMnFoZpa8wPAKIEmVXIXuZcE9xtG3jk3SbdynveBaWUVmynjeQUctK4juW9dIRWnsCjURmNYbOGCm9S/s600/dickgaughan.mfc11.pk%20(7).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjghuz2t2pYcZ-GM7xMSEPGgVsmsV9sbofb4n5B_QWIj8MtOT4Ha6fnYOUv7n768fSv91ZB7SwnAJr6GyyDM_YfBQBq1O52LqnmGJnxfI0kt9nbCkMnFoZpa8wPAKIEmVXIXuZcE9xtG3jk3SbdynveBaWUVmynjeQUctK4juW9dIRWnsCjURmNYbOGCm9S/w266-h400/dickgaughan.mfc11.pk%20(7).jpg" width="266" /></a></b></div><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYDGreaSf56jiJEk1zeLlnqq_Xchu6L2o7JJofpOq5uhIldpUaaFGIoTBYzQ75C9Js4xVIReGqxr-i8_dT5w9povOuCHMII7VuLJ0UrdaLTj3HcURZJ9L4mhJsMxpyziA2NaZ49y_FUGwTkwJUVhIuBQ-32FOsIST1f329b_efnm3G4FahgWb1ytZIZG-/s600/dickgaughan.pk%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="442" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNYDGreaSf56jiJEk1zeLlnqq_Xchu6L2o7JJofpOq5uhIldpUaaFGIoTBYzQ75C9Js4xVIReGqxr-i8_dT5w9povOuCHMII7VuLJ0UrdaLTj3HcURZJ9L4mhJsMxpyziA2NaZ49y_FUGwTkwJUVhIuBQ-32FOsIST1f329b_efnm3G4FahgWb1ytZIZG-/w295-h400/dickgaughan.pk%20(2).jpg" width="295" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdepxT3mFfzARsQTGNjqMiTdNDnwGkn5PWO0EuPbixYE0MXl1Jb12WnldAPaTHbz3NSWTg52FP39ulBWxf1W0g3y2GbyVATXVu2Xo7vkgGvf3MLt1ighuMP3C6jYuR1NbgZF7O74Bcrx0087m_JRlIxLRkhdCJrK1CMyMSYX3LyMo3tIHMBlgOZZ2NDGXF/s2495/dickgaughan.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2495" data-original-width="1663" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdepxT3mFfzARsQTGNjqMiTdNDnwGkn5PWO0EuPbixYE0MXl1Jb12WnldAPaTHbz3NSWTg52FP39ulBWxf1W0g3y2GbyVATXVu2Xo7vkgGvf3MLt1ighuMP3C6jYuR1NbgZF7O74Bcrx0087m_JRlIxLRkhdCJrK1CMyMSYX3LyMo3tIHMBlgOZZ2NDGXF/w426-h640/dickgaughan.pk.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Many of this generation of folk singers are now getting older and I wonder who among the younger musicians can replace them? In 20 we lost Dundonian character songwriter Michael Marra (more later), in 2012 the iconic Scots songwriter Gerry Rafferty (I took photos at a concert to his memory at Celtic Connections) and just last year the wonderful Rab Noakes, who I knew well from his concerts and taking his photos there. What an interesting gentleman and creative songwriter he was. I remember in my twenties in my folk days, we would often sing in harmonies his early songs – Branch, Clear Day, Eden’s Flow - Happy Days indeed! Another massive Bob Dylan fan. Noakes started out playing with Gerry Rafferty in the Humblebums.</span></b></div></b><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-84007058910103586342024-02-23T18:29:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:53:26.106-08:00Transatlantic Sessions 2024 Review II<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCArkUoaHuKmNQ_eGP4DIdTm2QvLqZAvQa91oZ7VMy-_PBrCgzmvUd7Sp3F7jYf5UBR4DPaANVL9fhbcezy0A0BzBXQXhe-XF-lABaxaEzQuazyU5XU7U36JB2OCWoi0fALeoXJ3ovn0Zlk6bGPkY4c7iyNuL4DzJRr1Pn2znLyJhppD8fmlONaW0ruwcR/s700/transatlantic.sessions.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="700" height="356" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCArkUoaHuKmNQ_eGP4DIdTm2QvLqZAvQa91oZ7VMy-_PBrCgzmvUd7Sp3F7jYf5UBR4DPaANVL9fhbcezy0A0BzBXQXhe-XF-lABaxaEzQuazyU5XU7U36JB2OCWoi0fALeoXJ3ovn0Zlk6bGPkY4c7iyNuL4DzJRr1Pn2znLyJhppD8fmlONaW0ruwcR/w640-h356/transatlantic.sessions.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqr4G7WtHz0uvF7AyKQgblDaMqRQdSbrptumVci8WIR2H3A-OpGuuCVufQeth_EX27fsrGtZloaNGQOYvK9kqzzPpFsv1Sn8vPQYlLeQBWpJC-yu30eYNw8NjIPbI7Ejq4n48HQyzJHj-aozURNCoAI8gh9EFUuMpX7pyMnCmNK-63DrR4o-uE8KU9qtLD/s700/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqr4G7WtHz0uvF7AyKQgblDaMqRQdSbrptumVci8WIR2H3A-OpGuuCVufQeth_EX27fsrGtZloaNGQOYvK9kqzzPpFsv1Sn8vPQYlLeQBWpJC-yu30eYNw8NjIPbI7Ejq4n48HQyzJHj-aozURNCoAI8gh9EFUuMpX7pyMnCmNK-63DrR4o-uE8KU9qtLD/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">This was a concert of memories, escapism and also expectations – as well as the fun banter, expert musicianship, quality vocals and top songs. Session bands don’t come any better than this TS band.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Young Irish folk singer-songwriter <b>Joshua Burnside</b> gave a strong performance with his thoughtful songs <i>Louis Mercer and 26<sup>th</sup> Street</i>. He is influenced from contemporary electronica and traditional Irish songs, evoking lush landscapes, bad dreams and wistful vistas. His debut album <i>Ephrata </i>was awarded the Northern Ireland Music Prize for Best Album.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh83f41H1BVz0cSIUrjxkKUjqhbS1DZwSrpLb49vDELn65B8L5auLqwDHZ7N9-Mb3LmiBQT7fWYrES1CmKtAFZ75dyAzYCDt8MwHL1plMFoVZEUbIcBF-u8FWfcmPuezpeD8y2hLIvyngvrp-1UefXueayf53IC7Mw9ZJJUaaZcHZSfKMHeD1CKAG8PGnw4/s700/joshua.burnside.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="700" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh83f41H1BVz0cSIUrjxkKUjqhbS1DZwSrpLb49vDELn65B8L5auLqwDHZ7N9-Mb3LmiBQT7fWYrES1CmKtAFZ75dyAzYCDt8MwHL1plMFoVZEUbIcBF-u8FWfcmPuezpeD8y2hLIvyngvrp-1UefXueayf53IC7Mw9ZJJUaaZcHZSfKMHeD1CKAG8PGnw4/w640-h376/joshua.burnside.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joshua Burnside</td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpRjtbXlESc_B92N22KqP2kHwWg3RVl6HHbRlN4BsSXsuAZa92aFUt-PnDehb-hcObthmcQpZaN1-Cr0meZ8BgGP5oAo68_u98PEz-A6LZ9H9ntwRXKjtGUzejl_dJ0bRidv7Q32cNGUL1gWlpBfTVKw6dcr2aUvDW5ueCOVN4NRuK2rp7oj0cv1aBmAt/s700/joshua.burnside.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="700" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJpRjtbXlESc_B92N22KqP2kHwWg3RVl6HHbRlN4BsSXsuAZa92aFUt-PnDehb-hcObthmcQpZaN1-Cr0meZ8BgGP5oAo68_u98PEz-A6LZ9H9ntwRXKjtGUzejl_dJ0bRidv7Q32cNGUL1gWlpBfTVKw6dcr2aUvDW5ueCOVN4NRuK2rp7oj0cv1aBmAt/w640-h394/joshua.burnside.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">We were then treated to Scots singer songwriter, <b>Kim Carnie </b>engrossing and pure Gaelic voice. She is also lead singer of Mànran and Staran and winner of the Scots Trad Music Awards Gaelic singer of the year. While </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">American singer songwriter </span><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Lindsay Lou</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">’s silky smooth and rhythmic voice mixes bluegrass with modern Americana. Her performance was magnetic as she danced along to her emotive songs, <i>Nothings Working and Love Calls</i>. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">New album <i>Queen of Time</i> released 2023.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8kSmEBkU5IjpNPkhyphenhyphenWm1BdYAcdRuLPuRRD066QuXnmC31y4W9rcIrDLFkXFAWb1LOLM3I6RX8d4b5DuYLf2pirNZ1YGIA5v2I10j0InxzxVBlN2wrtim9G6GB1yQpa1UUgGGw6B48PZqbvt_vVDugpDm5NPQc53Jx-5_jY1ZeDenU1DPFYWCjMQDCfaM/s700/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ8kSmEBkU5IjpNPkhyphenhyphenWm1BdYAcdRuLPuRRD066QuXnmC31y4W9rcIrDLFkXFAWb1LOLM3I6RX8d4b5DuYLf2pirNZ1YGIA5v2I10j0InxzxVBlN2wrtim9G6GB1yQpa1UUgGGw6B48PZqbvt_vVDugpDm5NPQc53Jx-5_jY1ZeDenU1DPFYWCjMQDCfaM/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__e-VEzbCezBxx358spjQwOLGbj0JG6-mDNjgviWuDSR_HPD8e9uwV_1kFpCOrQGEUn08ZyZ4-L_YIFS-0QFr2aMJ6xjPQUsN3JylkggKGuC6_iJ3WdPdjjcYPksNu1KB3h7IPHwEvcwu4aulYmg53QLVrj6oATxI_61rMXIVVCuU3RKM2hvJpmze3iwb/s700/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="700" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__e-VEzbCezBxx358spjQwOLGbj0JG6-mDNjgviWuDSR_HPD8e9uwV_1kFpCOrQGEUn08ZyZ4-L_YIFS-0QFr2aMJ6xjPQUsN3JylkggKGuC6_iJ3WdPdjjcYPksNu1KB3h7IPHwEvcwu4aulYmg53QLVrj6oATxI_61rMXIVVCuU3RKM2hvJpmze3iwb/w640-h420/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAptfEirqTksx9E3FWDnzSqxe81FC1HvdH6tdvnAmqA2pfXQQd8LbRosea1WvKYfSHLd9K2sAuzO9B2qGleJXpZeSIsw0On4sEh9MNnpoZF0-AXlFzWONAvgkCHvuDbV08cLnytObe7_dK3rgHvswELI8HuSPCem9B5sBx4cJYOPB-3JQ3d7WKCEprL6fV/s700/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAptfEirqTksx9E3FWDnzSqxe81FC1HvdH6tdvnAmqA2pfXQQd8LbRosea1WvKYfSHLd9K2sAuzO9B2qGleJXpZeSIsw0On4sEh9MNnpoZF0-AXlFzWONAvgkCHvuDbV08cLnytObe7_dK3rgHvswELI8HuSPCem9B5sBx4cJYOPB-3JQ3d7WKCEprL6fV/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kim Carnie</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXUcqUSkjTjTC0psTnavWaunWDyE3g9MX21a6_64NLPU8S52Ak9qJPgB3iuq-EubRzz4D1j43JRccFGGt8o_8c7qSKaCnySPqCwR5yHSHkLk-AwbfPULYh9WLvyeIYbJTObU3gKqtNP1rZd47BRdE9vZx3H4k70nf2B9eSCC4BRGMaTg7DKP2O9ySUJDb/s700/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="700" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfXUcqUSkjTjTC0psTnavWaunWDyE3g9MX21a6_64NLPU8S52Ak9qJPgB3iuq-EubRzz4D1j43JRccFGGt8o_8c7qSKaCnySPqCwR5yHSHkLk-AwbfPULYh9WLvyeIYbJTObU3gKqtNP1rZd47BRdE9vZx3H4k70nf2B9eSCC4BRGMaTg7DKP2O9ySUJDb/w640-h384/lindsay.lou.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lindsay Lou</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Canadian duo </span><b style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves </b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">returned on banjo and fiddle with their jaunty tunes!. They are winners Instrumental Group of the Year and Traditional Album of the Year at the 2023 Canadian Folk Music Awards. And we enjoyed hearing the talents on double bass of </span><b style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Daniel Kimbro</b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">, on the humorous song Michael Collins.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuAY0eLP-gbJLnKFqNNkAoChVOP6aTB4k38s9sFlvj-Y44kY93ZxJGxFc_JpfhSTjEdytT-gsQKdtgP3SWjKA4QHlnbSSslL1L3eQoUV8EAS1VD7qWtkpWd2PgkiulkuhiRZKg2CM2RPXw7B15XI9y99LyjaXGEIhpe2QeIrH5dxBmdPlSMXHArEjN62Nu/s700/charlene.carter.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuAY0eLP-gbJLnKFqNNkAoChVOP6aTB4k38s9sFlvj-Y44kY93ZxJGxFc_JpfhSTjEdytT-gsQKdtgP3SWjKA4QHlnbSSslL1L3eQoUV8EAS1VD7qWtkpWd2PgkiulkuhiRZKg2CM2RPXw7B15XI9y99LyjaXGEIhpe2QeIrH5dxBmdPlSMXHArEjN62Nu/w400-h266/charlene.carter.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWes6Tr2BmflQJSwc3ld1AbnItwDDBX2Xvr7JJOww-ygFa-eL2M1gpszP3-mvzmZjhhyX6vcxfuQvLSs4cfMcHZkQDSsE34_IE03pajshS2AY8bAkhmstZDnXWO9mZP2fcpfXW9TWbkxjExPIOoCzFKjVeNY0JNso_Drq5Sdo3Sx3nz057hQOnCCzsAUT/s700/charlene.carter.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWes6Tr2BmflQJSwc3ld1AbnItwDDBX2Xvr7JJOww-ygFa-eL2M1gpszP3-mvzmZjhhyX6vcxfuQvLSs4cfMcHZkQDSsE34_IE03pajshS2AY8bAkhmstZDnXWO9mZP2fcpfXW9TWbkxjExPIOoCzFKjVeNY0JNso_Drq5Sdo3Sx3nz057hQOnCCzsAUT/w400-h266/charlene.carter.pk6.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">A highlight was Grammy nominated singer-songwriter <b>Carlene Carter</b> - daughter of music legends June Carter and Carl Smith, and Johnny Cash’s stepdaughter – who performed her songs, <i>Every Little Thing, Wildwood Flower </i>- as well as June Carter’s <i>Ring of Fire</i>, for a rousing sing along finale.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76vEp0HO57vba8CNgQHPtkk4a_BgcwYrWKrBB7G7BrCZxtohYllZ_cDUP_MqezqtFNqZoYFIzfqMg1iZ8pC4pf5D14wMt5mu19QkH3q_LHU_QGbgJMu1YjFtJZzMgSh4TwJDE5FEVuxonus7J-0Nes7Mp6D1UM9CZ-kMgTP1X1EuhGXRr9MFqplMUFv7_/s700/lindsay.lou.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76vEp0HO57vba8CNgQHPtkk4a_BgcwYrWKrBB7G7BrCZxtohYllZ_cDUP_MqezqtFNqZoYFIzfqMg1iZ8pC4pf5D14wMt5mu19QkH3q_LHU_QGbgJMu1YjFtJZzMgSh4TwJDE5FEVuxonus7J-0Nes7Mp6D1UM9CZ-kMgTP1X1EuhGXRr9MFqplMUFv7_/w640-h426/lindsay.lou.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lindsay Lou</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>The two music directors with their fun chat kept the show and the band grounded – <b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Jerry Douglas </b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">with his expressive dubro and </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Aly Bain</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> with his moving Shetland fiddle. Alongside the other excellent players. The packed audience appreciated </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Phil Cunningham’s</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> tune </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Melody for Eve </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">and </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Aly Bain’s</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Smuggler’s Set</i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_c7Ht_zQ-jNYnvF_k5dFbZdkH5SctkIq_q4ah7uv0BhC1RIkpHRCmouww2DmnBHiNLPvCrjDBGsBTygk_MywPNNN3u1v4F3yHR0vsWnvZqvq9-sC3rSx4bvKUsNiGEeV48iKr1wRSndB9oYMy_zxfa1k3RWUhMXP7ZijzN9l9XjcQGlEN4yDmxRlY1sV/s700/joshua.burnside.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="700" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic_c7Ht_zQ-jNYnvF_k5dFbZdkH5SctkIq_q4ah7uv0BhC1RIkpHRCmouww2DmnBHiNLPvCrjDBGsBTygk_MywPNNN3u1v4F3yHR0vsWnvZqvq9-sC3rSx4bvKUsNiGEeV48iKr1wRSndB9oYMy_zxfa1k3RWUhMXP7ZijzN9l9XjcQGlEN4yDmxRlY1sV/w640-h394/joshua.burnside.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>This concert stirs so many emotions, with both the thoughtful songs and joyful playing. This kind of vibrant playing take us out of those everyday struggles for a while. Its all about how good the collaborative vibe is between all the artists, from youthful exuberance to the experienced traditional players. I’ve attended the Transatlantic Sessions since 2008 and while they are always an excellent standard, tonight’s was one of the best! Tremendous fun!</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">The house band, is led by Aly Bain and Jerry Douglas, features renowned Celtic roots musicians Phil Cunningham, John Doyle, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker, Donald Shaw, James Mackintosh and Daniel Kimbro. </span></b><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Photos & Review Pauline Keightley </span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">- </span><a href="https://pkimage.co.uk" style="color: #1a1a1a;">https://pkimage.co.uk</a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhR1_fBK61ZpKCQP-uwyy3SgSeA6vao0LsmdIrDTF00p3UiwICfqeaTXDFYMsrcASMfsqkBkf3AtncVWQ6H68i8hUfGJ_Gcfkwn0fEV0cR0L_Xw6_z8t2GkNwx_Wp2sLfS5rVWqJHP5HI2SqYbHsyFSs_ja0DxtD5bIRWamnVpmO43U685bZIvxQPXgX8V/s700/jerry.douglas.pk6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="700" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhR1_fBK61ZpKCQP-uwyy3SgSeA6vao0LsmdIrDTF00p3UiwICfqeaTXDFYMsrcASMfsqkBkf3AtncVWQ6H68i8hUfGJ_Gcfkwn0fEV0cR0L_Xw6_z8t2GkNwx_Wp2sLfS5rVWqJHP5HI2SqYbHsyFSs_ja0DxtD5bIRWamnVpmO43U685bZIvxQPXgX8V/w400-h236/jerry.douglas.pk6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tggMB-HxBrDI-UHAiZTBoaQkv2nJBXExhDl_gNGqxGOmWPWGf4YCgUY1zQOAjD5h3HuhDmKd8YdHgupYkoxT8sKNBZW2DUrkY3r3-nVZY5vgar1IOXF1tbKbP3KuyRspth6urk83CuBvoNWOTOGlvnLMU-xzBZuq0tWOgppfeHBppvczI2qx3B_secmA/s700/transatlantic.sessions.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="700" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tggMB-HxBrDI-UHAiZTBoaQkv2nJBXExhDl_gNGqxGOmWPWGf4YCgUY1zQOAjD5h3HuhDmKd8YdHgupYkoxT8sKNBZW2DUrkY3r3-nVZY5vgar1IOXF1tbKbP3KuyRspth6urk83CuBvoNWOTOGlvnLMU-xzBZuq0tWOgppfeHBppvczI2qx3B_secmA/w400-h260/transatlantic.sessions.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvtVj2v94CEQcgHli0U6Mr4GSOgFNbtKER2-Nw_kNA7BY6lFbHd7bCHXL9EOhncTzVDyXcAGtYirv35iBYgfzQo6odY_lB_Eb6OTdbjQ3aCaYwEw5kfmoIenuZEIeJuipInwse5pZOvMD267YciYUI2K5CZIMpF7TkiMqTyMoMBPvizMd5ZtsXMftGWPS/s700/lindsay.lou.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="440" data-original-width="700" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkvtVj2v94CEQcgHli0U6Mr4GSOgFNbtKER2-Nw_kNA7BY6lFbHd7bCHXL9EOhncTzVDyXcAGtYirv35iBYgfzQo6odY_lB_Eb6OTdbjQ3aCaYwEw5kfmoIenuZEIeJuipInwse5pZOvMD267YciYUI2K5CZIMpF7TkiMqTyMoMBPvizMd5ZtsXMftGWPS/w640-h402/lindsay.lou.pk7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-67326653061332315422024-02-10T16:19:00.000-08:002024-02-10T16:19:59.395-08:00Scots Gaelic Kim Carnie Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #ccfest2024,<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GzW8-ryVWHKNaSvn4nsU2owEQVqmwtCGVB8tu00P2fWMiQC6WFc3JqmUzaNfn2Zfczuvjr0dtNfblCqs6xEZbrs4eZY1qi5W8BAwvKwcK6pFtLAx5ydh8eP_-p1c1csZcKqFW2IFupKFqzBvxdo-yxZg1zYLHDAo97U2iZOnNZ9rQc8chXCpHPF5Ploa/s700/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_GzW8-ryVWHKNaSvn4nsU2owEQVqmwtCGVB8tu00P2fWMiQC6WFc3JqmUzaNfn2Zfczuvjr0dtNfblCqs6xEZbrs4eZY1qi5W8BAwvKwcK6pFtLAx5ydh8eP_-p1c1csZcKqFW2IFupKFqzBvxdo-yxZg1zYLHDAo97U2iZOnNZ9rQc8chXCpHPF5Ploa/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk15.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Scots Gaelic singer songwriter, Kim Carnie, lead singer with Manran, performed at the Transatlantic Sessions, Celtic Connections 2024, #ccfest2024,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjmnaDdCbwZ6oIZqsajUBWDsRorMzJUapxzp504U_hyphenhyphenZqDKNAgXTC-FjPT_6yz6XtaIBGwoomKxgupiHx6mutGw38Y2arwqi6jnMJYX51bdl3iwkgSBcDHVZitrIsgqB6uQQyCn1xURauE7Pkf4J6wXkjRouJzK4WN7J0PN-6zfPtN7vFKJpWKtdVBOB2/s700/kim.carnie.pk3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="700" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnjmnaDdCbwZ6oIZqsajUBWDsRorMzJUapxzp504U_hyphenhyphenZqDKNAgXTC-FjPT_6yz6XtaIBGwoomKxgupiHx6mutGw38Y2arwqi6jnMJYX51bdl3iwkgSBcDHVZitrIsgqB6uQQyCn1xURauE7Pkf4J6wXkjRouJzK4WN7J0PN-6zfPtN7vFKJpWKtdVBOB2/w400-h234/kim.carnie.pk3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TKvbgNSyKZSLm5bMbc_97tjR7PeYhwzQm-Ng6mVI6Md2kUgJhv5EIjvv10hry-nhj9B8Nw_b8TDXoZTU1nCfSWUMsIvnw8c7lnZKYls2OM_g0U6AroZ6RE-1-iR7A3cW7AHc-cCv5fFBFaUsbFxJAsnGdE8wwNF356mwA7xx5zN8-VtIdW98oY1cg3sN/s700/kim.carnie.pk9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5TKvbgNSyKZSLm5bMbc_97tjR7PeYhwzQm-Ng6mVI6Md2kUgJhv5EIjvv10hry-nhj9B8Nw_b8TDXoZTU1nCfSWUMsIvnw8c7lnZKYls2OM_g0U6AroZ6RE-1-iR7A3cW7AHc-cCv5fFBFaUsbFxJAsnGdE8wwNF356mwA7xx5zN8-VtIdW98oY1cg3sN/w400-h266/kim.carnie.pk9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFys63KykEHU2Skn3DW7HecnoPHryUfDs-WGqE7XxXNukvbLWYewezVdplszzmRYwV9L2TiXzRRd_-z0uKS2-hd5Y0ml0JmfkdJZ5eQcgQ2qrwIMy3wja6Vdymmlb6XACHbR3LlTg9u_gRHMetmyee7jLYt0R9AqRhoMRAhI1Iy1Ss-G_st8va1yQRWMw/s700/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="700" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHFys63KykEHU2Skn3DW7HecnoPHryUfDs-WGqE7XxXNukvbLWYewezVdplszzmRYwV9L2TiXzRRd_-z0uKS2-hd5Y0ml0JmfkdJZ5eQcgQ2qrwIMy3wja6Vdymmlb6XACHbR3LlTg9u_gRHMetmyee7jLYt0R9AqRhoMRAhI1Iy1Ss-G_st8va1yQRWMw/w640-h420/kim.carnie.pk14.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmk8xaG8cJ0CjdM8tCzEGeEO94rQgCd3KTMHXP3DugXibCyt3OtX2QxcBIgY0kwXfiz8IzBMbxYWyz4b6MdvhvWdOAIiO2Ex7038u94KHGdPtgsZBUt-URUf1X2HG991vxvC49QSsfXCbWrGianQkl1o0dEw_CQ7vpY1FBflNkD4_L_DyjaFiyPxseIeWR/s700/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmk8xaG8cJ0CjdM8tCzEGeEO94rQgCd3KTMHXP3DugXibCyt3OtX2QxcBIgY0kwXfiz8IzBMbxYWyz4b6MdvhvWdOAIiO2Ex7038u94KHGdPtgsZBUt-URUf1X2HG991vxvC49QSsfXCbWrGianQkl1o0dEw_CQ7vpY1FBflNkD4_L_DyjaFiyPxseIeWR/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGPTK5BmZQjoR29qGfQL74BJGyRorjRkTpAyRiu4qIhu15aRchgMwFQqjyHU1Q8V4xrTzY4ThJfekLBbbXYl9-b8b5hCWCVmI12FeEDk8bCnNwIxOTZugP6-iH3p2Q0-yJX7tWZGQjE4jCzTmfa2F_fBTrGd6fxhL3xkE1y5iy77e32a17ys0-984HBva/s700/kim.carnie.pk7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyGPTK5BmZQjoR29qGfQL74BJGyRorjRkTpAyRiu4qIhu15aRchgMwFQqjyHU1Q8V4xrTzY4ThJfekLBbbXYl9-b8b5hCWCVmI12FeEDk8bCnNwIxOTZugP6-iH3p2Q0-yJX7tWZGQjE4jCzTmfa2F_fBTrGd6fxhL3xkE1y5iy77e32a17ys0-984HBva/w640-h426/kim.carnie.pk7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-34337564690207599522024-02-03T17:45:00.000-08:002024-02-03T17:45:15.303-08:00Ciaran Ryan Celtic Connections 2024<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7c8mojPj4Di1Gnk01-VJNKuPjtxVMOqdqpRLshS8-Kb3nKeT4CBWxHRooHPJXoj_09wLy8Gfi5MFNn9XrSw_0mx__kFIdyRdM1fEMNTlnrWVFiywzXj6dMQ12mCxL04sIkUxfFVN5Xc82axqFqsw_70JY5N3NM-L51hx9seTV_f2BGMkQ8OFVfPv3AWDg/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7c8mojPj4Di1Gnk01-VJNKuPjtxVMOqdqpRLshS8-Kb3nKeT4CBWxHRooHPJXoj_09wLy8Gfi5MFNn9XrSw_0mx__kFIdyRdM1fEMNTlnrWVFiywzXj6dMQ12mCxL04sIkUxfFVN5Xc82axqFqsw_70JY5N3NM-L51hx9seTV_f2BGMkQ8OFVfPv3AWDg/w640-h426/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qVqKixOWSJVxUPGdcaxDTTqTB5fSEpYZltbHRgFzYZ8CTkpM-s-dgmUxt4B8pJm9rkB7h17tIrJJSJYTpVTKFBUVjuBeleRbNkR8tzKIh_I_3kLyeyhprEWGrlPLR2lSHIIXUvUCJhTmXQsW_28Y6ccZSMEFybIZkn72TxRPIicNUPlK3guxbiTmldll/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qVqKixOWSJVxUPGdcaxDTTqTB5fSEpYZltbHRgFzYZ8CTkpM-s-dgmUxt4B8pJm9rkB7h17tIrJJSJYTpVTKFBUVjuBeleRbNkR8tzKIh_I_3kLyeyhprEWGrlPLR2lSHIIXUvUCJhTmXQsW_28Y6ccZSMEFybIZkn72TxRPIicNUPlK3guxbiTmldll/w640-h426/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Ciaran Ryan played at the Old Fruitmarket, as part of Celtic Connections 2024, when he supported Kinnaris. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Ryan is a dynamic, high energy player</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">. </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">He is a Scottish tenor banjo player, one of the UKs top players and a founding member of folk band Dallahan, His second solo album, <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Occupational Hazards</span></i>, was released 2024. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcUOzebySxOQyomWg_1-ZfRESranKLrut8omRoqEfpBVMIoqd3tXM-IZWM-8biP4KY4r324fdcpA9DHtpHdki8dI6ZZ3QaXIf6MpZztvXWJxjLHYQdfbpg8Mmk7sUtZgJRCs3VJGUH23CwnSE5k0ArGFRemTqLH4PEksnxgDg_P_Hbrv-MVKj0sRGRsIz/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjcUOzebySxOQyomWg_1-ZfRESranKLrut8omRoqEfpBVMIoqd3tXM-IZWM-8biP4KY4r324fdcpA9DHtpHdki8dI6ZZ3QaXIf6MpZztvXWJxjLHYQdfbpg8Mmk7sUtZgJRCs3VJGUH23CwnSE5k0ArGFRemTqLH4PEksnxgDg_P_Hbrv-MVKj0sRGRsIz/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDw4IXQfgI3ImEoWKx1nGlcW8XJ0kTU01n3c9v1tCkR2aDw-LWWLnBKeYhwvj_VrQwL6nGj_HgMZ0_wKGXD3NzD_VjM0XbQg-0-0WkZVQxvonx963ADvIezyBf8540g11o8RWF1fLotBlatu19a9U8qLvjnZKa92wBVmRW1KSG8LxwB_oS4Q68kB8Nx9B/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDw4IXQfgI3ImEoWKx1nGlcW8XJ0kTU01n3c9v1tCkR2aDw-LWWLnBKeYhwvj_VrQwL6nGj_HgMZ0_wKGXD3NzD_VjM0XbQg-0-0WkZVQxvonx963ADvIezyBf8540g11o8RWF1fLotBlatu19a9U8qLvjnZKa92wBVmRW1KSG8LxwB_oS4Q68kB8Nx9B/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ7YvIcHWcbEJx_Flf-yFHv3fQgptTAq-MrZZxXK400BghuC2ZllfNe3j5eryiHz3xVMaPb_YyB9ZAy_9-yLtFMFDKonS64p3cvBKCu5BKk6aKZ2UeCJSaR4km-iJb3nj-LQECiRZfg2bgJAVrBOgBwVtCfha7claFbFI4yoqWjq0kUvYIYCekKoTmCmE/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCZ7YvIcHWcbEJx_Flf-yFHv3fQgptTAq-MrZZxXK400BghuC2ZllfNe3j5eryiHz3xVMaPb_YyB9ZAy_9-yLtFMFDKonS64p3cvBKCu5BKk6aKZ2UeCJSaR4km-iJb3nj-LQECiRZfg2bgJAVrBOgBwVtCfha7claFbFI4yoqWjq0kUvYIYCekKoTmCmE/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOnCXTZh32XlUdcColGl3B-WjgpY71ioD3bUrsYLipuvA6keH5iPWXu1LczOOtgeQDFfD-_B5IDRN_sNu_5fYJ9iUSJAiudVDREdpkgXJ1gLayzbPAts8ssIS4GWyq-Lm3BnvzMjXdfEIQ55kgihSzRr5goSo88a9lc91UaLxL8QlSL1xtDqWKFfxA84u/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOnCXTZh32XlUdcColGl3B-WjgpY71ioD3bUrsYLipuvA6keH5iPWXu1LczOOtgeQDFfD-_B5IDRN_sNu_5fYJ9iUSJAiudVDREdpkgXJ1gLayzbPAts8ssIS4GWyq-Lm3BnvzMjXdfEIQ55kgihSzRr5goSo88a9lc91UaLxL8QlSL1xtDqWKFfxA84u/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIheptbYqj-sC7LXk5vvYh7HHSo-TsvDmS6qpkiwUInHIklzV_OKSX0yBk5KRRKfjiTG3kvknTsTtgZN0W4N5jIMEkGv-THD76EStW9X-o0xEXQdIRqrg2Emzzb4MeHqmwGB-326wL1i0x5FX-1jt_tTA3Y0UbARlpqQkQoGjN6NHMniuQtno9bPPvxd2U/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIheptbYqj-sC7LXk5vvYh7HHSo-TsvDmS6qpkiwUInHIklzV_OKSX0yBk5KRRKfjiTG3kvknTsTtgZN0W4N5jIMEkGv-THD76EStW9X-o0xEXQdIRqrg2Emzzb4MeHqmwGB-326wL1i0x5FX-1jt_tTA3Y0UbARlpqQkQoGjN6NHMniuQtno9bPPvxd2U/w640-h426/ciaran.ryan.pk7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-38006627868124222482024-01-31T15:50:00.001-08:002024-03-04T14:55:56.332-08:00Kinnaris Quintet PHOTOS at Celtic Connections 2024<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikl-XZMM6uvcd9SAJuupSwjELeOS3Zgyiaqvf_mqpGmwtkYmAqKp3o-rbzHbzsR09jTla1aUI58h2pIfQi1tclkIwlUJExe2repABV0cvV4y7jUlaw93wIlxzb39wgo_ebmIkS1O_YeyRoNTdBmnf7eWaqmnti7dGX9cyygE_F0yHOQwSWuEguezYft3D-/s700/DSC07466.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikl-XZMM6uvcd9SAJuupSwjELeOS3Zgyiaqvf_mqpGmwtkYmAqKp3o-rbzHbzsR09jTla1aUI58h2pIfQi1tclkIwlUJExe2repABV0cvV4y7jUlaw93wIlxzb39wgo_ebmIkS1O_YeyRoNTdBmnf7eWaqmnti7dGX9cyygE_F0yHOQwSWuEguezYft3D-/w640-h426/DSC07466.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHboMygFE3_SYs_M5f8H43FWg4WO5FG9MvN-LtK_zm9Saf4WFUwQ2z0cYLbBsIUC9m3i1AQrsaACXP0MZoP4LqzE9CDZXvg1Zu9excIye2G4RLGxwjc2mRhseGH7cw-jh6zuYeRGTG4HWp98yROvFKBZgP79cvq8r9yVethHbHA0IA5I93Y8dT0WSbYBC/s700/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHboMygFE3_SYs_M5f8H43FWg4WO5FG9MvN-LtK_zm9Saf4WFUwQ2z0cYLbBsIUC9m3i1AQrsaACXP0MZoP4LqzE9CDZXvg1Zu9excIye2G4RLGxwjc2mRhseGH7cw-jh6zuYeRGTG4HWp98yROvFKBZgP79cvq8r9yVethHbHA0IA5I93Y8dT0WSbYBC/w640-h426/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Electrifying, genre<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">-</span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">bending and joyous!</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Kinnaris consists of five accomplished musicians - Jenn Butterworth on guitar, Aileen Reid on fiddle, Fiona MacAskill on fiddle, Laura-Beth on mandolin, and Laura Wilkie on fiddle. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The all female band sparkled on the Old Fruimarket stage! And the packed audience, with many well dressed female fans, were ready to party. This is as far from the decades old folk image of arran sweaters as we might choose to get! <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Their set was begun with a toe-tapping tune <i>This Too</i> – after which t</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">he</span></span> band were joined on stage by the ever-popular Celtic Connections singers Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart with a rousing Emeli Sande song, <i>Read All About It</i> and a poignant Gaelic song <i>Puirt s</i>ung by the enchanting vocals of Julie Fowlis, while backed perfectly by the dynamic band. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMSeWpUma0ndi7FzPV_rYRZv6sjgc3YNdBEtRDbGC13GF8GQND3t03tiHEGU6lHVf0g9IXvK8DZP-1HxK5_JPnJNg7Z_D6_WQW8_icRxW8hzt76hRyCB2Aw4Mtg6qsa8_6rlyskkOAcoXJfW4uLRFCSs2YpTBqWCbAmyZKBnOAE6UFWfQw0DU_ShH2L8r/s700/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVMSeWpUma0ndi7FzPV_rYRZv6sjgc3YNdBEtRDbGC13GF8GQND3t03tiHEGU6lHVf0g9IXvK8DZP-1HxK5_JPnJNg7Z_D6_WQW8_icRxW8hzt76hRyCB2Aw4Mtg6qsa8_6rlyskkOAcoXJfW4uLRFCSs2YpTBqWCbAmyZKBnOAE6UFWfQw0DU_ShH2L8r/w400-h266/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhifS2MDIbAQfTWn3Ccn77JSonFAlcyiPDyPF1qMHFH5Gn5lupouk2d5n45Fn4KcqtzVJk_ze7qAB0rbc-YAdYVEg9f9TK3v3vfl5sEh8Z8_8VWNAFPOaviJeSWMx3DIkVp11JyDh8Ta5_4cGovxt6MDhH5-wdz8QhqGPbI_72GOs0hozgcSmvPDFmKB1/s700/AileenReid.kinnaris.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHhifS2MDIbAQfTWn3Ccn77JSonFAlcyiPDyPF1qMHFH5Gn5lupouk2d5n45Fn4KcqtzVJk_ze7qAB0rbc-YAdYVEg9f9TK3v3vfl5sEh8Z8_8VWNAFPOaviJeSWMx3DIkVp11JyDh8Ta5_4cGovxt6MDhH5-wdz8QhqGPbI_72GOs0hozgcSmvPDFmKB1/w400-h266/AileenReid.kinnaris.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aileen Reid</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTv3k40fbqfM2BXjlVG0r0-tAKkwFt3AzPOGlg7zV3tMTr8AG5kETRuN9HmJEcuO0PpRm55u9Zsn6BnXTmcjFSzXXpfouVs2JB2v4CCOvYEuBakSRNwuK6XxExM69jm_5VJaCQAOaKbZEjQ1XASzVjb5yKXWkNMxuh6jQAe8j2AzhltvCQsWGV0OkpKoU/s700/AileenReid.kinnaris.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUTv3k40fbqfM2BXjlVG0r0-tAKkwFt3AzPOGlg7zV3tMTr8AG5kETRuN9HmJEcuO0PpRm55u9Zsn6BnXTmcjFSzXXpfouVs2JB2v4CCOvYEuBakSRNwuK6XxExM69jm_5VJaCQAOaKbZEjQ1XASzVjb5yKXWkNMxuh6jQAe8j2AzhltvCQsWGV0OkpKoU/w400-h266/AileenReid.kinnaris.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjK4y27c_1U8lne49rWnXDWdk7uWdSsuFj5486Tp3ceSbhUPZKIb61RRj191KwPvhF8680xHrjwNpXbzOLcFUdF6I9zl75oMFngJVAAzTsYBN9A1egGjskMgjcVVbMU3tVL_KnSH7qQjhFYp56Yy3p6lNEnrkPx1_Ttq_0gE20RPNo-7BCqWkgjZIWIwO/s700/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNjK4y27c_1U8lne49rWnXDWdk7uWdSsuFj5486Tp3ceSbhUPZKIb61RRj191KwPvhF8680xHrjwNpXbzOLcFUdF6I9zl75oMFngJVAAzTsYBN9A1egGjskMgjcVVbMU3tVL_KnSH7qQjhFYp56Yy3p6lNEnrkPx1_Ttq_0gE20RPNo-7BCqWkgjZIWIwO/w400-h266/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Karine Polwart, a festival stalwart and activist for inclusivity, had us all singing along to her emotive song, <i>Come Away In.</i> and them moved by a stirring song <i>Lost Words Blessing.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">This wonderfully escapist concert was brought to a fitting climax with the Kinnaris tunes <i>Wonderful and Saltsprings.</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Kinnaris play with verve, with both a lightness of touch and also high energy. They mix many influences to great challenging effects,<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> from traditional Scottish, Irish, Bluegrass, Classical, Scandinavian and Appalachian music; with which they create technically exciting arrangements, while their performances are filled with a contagious positive verve. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">An upbeat evening to remember! </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTS-AoJ_0vrP-xNpwsdJxQL5HGHLKGs1w6A5eTb7p8IJUF9jHTRfaLTL4vIaW5FTG0FaIWeUI8O1RcZYfZ9Pd4zdpx5jqSP_yMRDUyBDDcC_Z2KfKz2YP6ZZj2OWs8hKIQ9h5PGcLVvhXQrpcRWNriBLYJXOjoYNh89wWPooobWn7KacQSjU2IgC-LvtI/s700/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZTS-AoJ_0vrP-xNpwsdJxQL5HGHLKGs1w6A5eTb7p8IJUF9jHTRfaLTL4vIaW5FTG0FaIWeUI8O1RcZYfZ9Pd4zdpx5jqSP_yMRDUyBDDcC_Z2KfKz2YP6ZZj2OWs8hKIQ9h5PGcLVvhXQrpcRWNriBLYJXOjoYNh89wWPooobWn7KacQSjU2IgC-LvtI/w640-h426/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk9.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRyeOtkJU8ByjTSc3EfWEKfOSmmU0oSrKyyLi85DX83s2TaHJybdBAZjbSXheyFEg1gtoPp77SqcX0uDpjt8vSObKv65J3P1CWRcuvLF8BUV3kN5AOpEEw-kLhxV4qCOdIzx_pZ9etvd2_QyVguew2Kusjc1sJ1QSM58iNztOJm5Z5wFjwf8PwBPO2rC2/s700/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvRyeOtkJU8ByjTSc3EfWEKfOSmmU0oSrKyyLi85DX83s2TaHJybdBAZjbSXheyFEg1gtoPp77SqcX0uDpjt8vSObKv65J3P1CWRcuvLF8BUV3kN5AOpEEw-kLhxV4qCOdIzx_pZ9etvd2_QyVguew2Kusjc1sJ1QSM58iNztOJm5Z5wFjwf8PwBPO2rC2/w640-h426/juliefowlis.karinepolwart,kinnaris.pk12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxQjeZZF0ilV4pV1umBrdXUb0ItenZ79f8ifUcA7dYtpsX9YcVR2K8sKdbgLfYjWM7ZIpfq4T7svOtz5aqrFDR9LSIyGkSFhD8s6_QxIkLXg1n-IIVsE5RtGK_zcB2eHHBQd5TsyqO_da9ndOaLm8gQiMelSOtChTiufRwOGMKNBx1kVPVymxtG1OL9Bz/s700/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKxQjeZZF0ilV4pV1umBrdXUb0ItenZ79f8ifUcA7dYtpsX9YcVR2K8sKdbgLfYjWM7ZIpfq4T7svOtz5aqrFDR9LSIyGkSFhD8s6_QxIkLXg1n-IIVsE5RtGK_zcB2eHHBQd5TsyqO_da9ndOaLm8gQiMelSOtChTiufRwOGMKNBx1kVPVymxtG1OL9Bz/w640-h426/karinepolwart.kinnaris.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Karine Polwart</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHby4ALF_ruXafSArfnCmckWyv_TqNPXLxM3kdpWtk0W1yrP-sEUO2owfoBMUjTnv_E5zDVGUqGggHZyNA_Qy9iBHiVsGk4N3pg_ny8lrioVwFZkRS-cOk2vqb-QpkCqrzQnKuYjlW_wk45X60qAfWndpW0u9kGS-ljwAn3VBnrvKeulyxmMyzt9_uqa4/s700/DSC07217.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="700" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoHby4ALF_ruXafSArfnCmckWyv_TqNPXLxM3kdpWtk0W1yrP-sEUO2owfoBMUjTnv_E5zDVGUqGggHZyNA_Qy9iBHiVsGk4N3pg_ny8lrioVwFZkRS-cOk2vqb-QpkCqrzQnKuYjlW_wk45X60qAfWndpW0u9kGS-ljwAn3VBnrvKeulyxmMyzt9_uqa4/w640-h424/DSC07217.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAQA3hHVhE5n61VHILB0uRI6RUSn517xdzCnwFEeR8uxK7Xj2X1SCEfToA0rvKHhZo8VZFQbsjmTaYKhXp3LAEf96EunfPQCLfdqEWIFSSZfSdLLEAaU1bb8ZFmdPV_hJ0F-WYEC_L1CYEUFO-TNdGE3lArPVCh8RQIomfsjxYAZ8-DCwNqfAklVWJKME/s700/laurabeth.slater.kinnaris.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUAQA3hHVhE5n61VHILB0uRI6RUSn517xdzCnwFEeR8uxK7Xj2X1SCEfToA0rvKHhZo8VZFQbsjmTaYKhXp3LAEf96EunfPQCLfdqEWIFSSZfSdLLEAaU1bb8ZFmdPV_hJ0F-WYEC_L1CYEUFO-TNdGE3lArPVCh8RQIomfsjxYAZ8-DCwNqfAklVWJKME/w640-h426/laurabeth.slater.kinnaris.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Laura-Beth Slater</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">II Kinnaris were very well supported by the dynamic, high energy playing of Ciaran Ryan<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">, </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Scottish tenor banjo player, one of the UKs top players and a founding member of folk band Dallahan, His second solo album, <i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Occupational Hazards</span></i>, was released 2024. </span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">The evening concert was opened by Norwegian band Gangar, with their fresh take on Nordic roots music and a modern rock take on traditional tunes.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfejVMyUR0A9T1nGKnzIYWnWvBRXNob6V6wjWFmNkjHKGWtW6xl3zohtKGFDSgUgBPyFIUVFC9dtSpNnouQNAmGnrjOc-q-OleHTLkUUExO98rLHVcQztaJNpiYtDSaXCZczd5R7GlOvdT1JYtcsJcCcFvi-Vx4Gx98uj_f4HYwvOF7UZ3OATozVQ1Fddp/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfejVMyUR0A9T1nGKnzIYWnWvBRXNob6V6wjWFmNkjHKGWtW6xl3zohtKGFDSgUgBPyFIUVFC9dtSpNnouQNAmGnrjOc-q-OleHTLkUUExO98rLHVcQztaJNpiYtDSaXCZczd5R7GlOvdT1JYtcsJcCcFvi-Vx4Gx98uj_f4HYwvOF7UZ3OATozVQ1Fddp/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgOnPzQVn7PeQ87VWktA2n0lQ2dIdar8HTTDxdaB-6nKHhjiSra2ab-gq7vbgNI5Oi-w0HMbo42nuTP6mtYmHFLmYGeLncRHNW0MB858DJ34AxiA3nNmI7DLtY_EghzXg9wEKZGTJlZNU69Y6mAVgtRC3E9TN-E8pg0W07xM2i7gdVLQxZbn1UIVaZbkd/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsgOnPzQVn7PeQ87VWktA2n0lQ2dIdar8HTTDxdaB-6nKHhjiSra2ab-gq7vbgNI5Oi-w0HMbo42nuTP6mtYmHFLmYGeLncRHNW0MB858DJ34AxiA3nNmI7DLtY_EghzXg9wEKZGTJlZNU69Y6mAVgtRC3E9TN-E8pg0W07xM2i7gdVLQxZbn1UIVaZbkd/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVr59DqR9ZbRNpwhoqwEV1_Nk8wDcRFHh-WvU3gs_BaLmm46GwKyCqNq3cmxi9UuGv8Pf_bmn5axKGijqNUoO4zzd9GR4YlITTgNGgttOUsXZa6_bEbycajqfzT-7kzQ9dIK4jCelnMInrZRlEnbGnKwoBBmVtAAQmy1uXrqrhtR0N2ZJDJi4ry-_MygJd/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVr59DqR9ZbRNpwhoqwEV1_Nk8wDcRFHh-WvU3gs_BaLmm46GwKyCqNq3cmxi9UuGv8Pf_bmn5axKGijqNUoO4zzd9GR4YlITTgNGgttOUsXZa6_bEbycajqfzT-7kzQ9dIK4jCelnMInrZRlEnbGnKwoBBmVtAAQmy1uXrqrhtR0N2ZJDJi4ry-_MygJd/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAh_8ntQYhml3qvU2cN9HWuURJRvZds2rOAQMM0I3o1WF29uwapUdORBYQbjCugww9777tnlYjEweTFN_I4__lX53x9y062dC85IZvVSJSIsVTOMJBLMeBJgwujooNjA8bGKCG5rhZcMqrYV4uu4zCcXAftqK1mKpRyDJsf25tPA8NsAcmiqsMU6VmoTf/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAh_8ntQYhml3qvU2cN9HWuURJRvZds2rOAQMM0I3o1WF29uwapUdORBYQbjCugww9777tnlYjEweTFN_I4__lX53x9y062dC85IZvVSJSIsVTOMJBLMeBJgwujooNjA8bGKCG5rhZcMqrYV4uu4zCcXAftqK1mKpRyDJsf25tPA8NsAcmiqsMU6VmoTf/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_0KdtK0DgZt-RU8f5L3QmFYwtz-AEijsZU47JnnTzSbI4AYU7Qhwc9qUHrrOB09PMNQNqF2E9vfiI3j2e4X73RmbtwthiEfRkVILpNEx4uKz7Qo6_HyAzJAK56w5RJ9BVGgQHyWhC9GsTWo4jiNunlKsJzLILGyTwu8YppNG03rws7N3fqYd98Nhn05O/s700/ciaran.ryan.pk7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE_0KdtK0DgZt-RU8f5L3QmFYwtz-AEijsZU47JnnTzSbI4AYU7Qhwc9qUHrrOB09PMNQNqF2E9vfiI3j2e4X73RmbtwthiEfRkVILpNEx4uKz7Qo6_HyAzJAK56w5RJ9BVGgQHyWhC9GsTWo4jiNunlKsJzLILGyTwu8YppNG03rws7N3fqYd98Nhn05O/w400-h266/ciaran.ryan.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-67439811017938846472024-01-31T15:50:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:57:36.839-08:00Roaming Roots Revue at Celtic Connections 2024<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRttVBK8iLuQdmacSm-uP85AphPIGwbn5uZm1pzuIBWpQEgZDUtG6A5MHlihGZ2ylC4DZCHv7NalaysG7hZEeJzgH7aQwJvMZ6xWFpFCoB7YB5uC4GlZPxplT5F46FpcWMZ1iVcdzsOcvaP-yUOQG6PU1GBRcJReZBVBm7ikz15DKulKw9_3lFtBBfeFrk/s700/brownbear.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRttVBK8iLuQdmacSm-uP85AphPIGwbn5uZm1pzuIBWpQEgZDUtG6A5MHlihGZ2ylC4DZCHv7NalaysG7hZEeJzgH7aQwJvMZ6xWFpFCoB7YB5uC4GlZPxplT5F46FpcWMZ1iVcdzsOcvaP-yUOQG6PU1GBRcJReZBVBm7ikz15DKulKw9_3lFtBBfeFrk/w400-h266/brownbear.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-GasVO90fkCi9om4KkB84VM3ZBiMjSJWWISh3nLLz2sueWGvubURXSHBc_lu0ntfmFgaatwXvvKrzUlft1j9bK_fLl1jKloJGyA6pmph2b-sC8TXmAkMHFs5TjJKRmr_A4JZjrnacXaPMAGXjm2AeBYAv4N4V_VlUe-7MDcUlvtdRtgwGCLFbYVxoQT3/s700/brownbear.pk5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV-GasVO90fkCi9om4KkB84VM3ZBiMjSJWWISh3nLLz2sueWGvubURXSHBc_lu0ntfmFgaatwXvvKrzUlft1j9bK_fLl1jKloJGyA6pmph2b-sC8TXmAkMHFs5TjJKRmr_A4JZjrnacXaPMAGXjm2AeBYAv4N4V_VlUe-7MDcUlvtdRtgwGCLFbYVxoQT3/w400-h266/brownbear.pk5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brownbear</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;">What a wealth of talent!</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">The Roaming Roots Revue celebrated its ever popular, sold out show, with its 12</span><sup style="font-family: Helvetica;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">year as part of Celtic Connections. This year honouring the modern Scots song, interpreted and chosen by some of Scotland’s top talent. The concert was hosted by the excellent talent of <b>Roddy Hart</b> and his band the Lonesome Fire and backed by the RCS Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Logan, which created a rich and dynamic backdrop for the songs.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The show was an eclectic and diverse look at the development of the modern Scots songs from well renowned Gerry Rafferty to more recent hits such a Frightened Rabbit. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">New talent <b>Brownbear</b> aka Matthew Hickman, sang </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Spin Another Web and </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Aztec Camera’s</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> Somewhere in my Heart.</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> <b>Eddi Reader</b> performed King Creoste’s </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Something to Believe In. </i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">80s artists <b>Frank Reader and John Douglas </b>impressed with Al Stewart’s</span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> Year of the Cat.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">A highlight was <b>Justin Currie </b>of Del Amitri – who sang </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Be My Downfall</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Nothing Ever Happens</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">, plus a dramatic </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The Fight to be Human.</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> After which the crowd cheered along to Franz Ferdinand’s </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Take ME Ou</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">t, well performed by a dancing <b>Hamish Hawk! </b>The popular singer <b>Simon Neil</b> sang Biffy Clyro songs </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Space a</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">nd </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Victory Over the Sun,</i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> plus Frightened Rabbit’s </span><i style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Keep Yourself Warm.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4U1SDyZdCtU_ZjZ5Bbx2jPQF44FjUVYdOFHqJ4bJr6sbjET_QxGH9TMquMReEwU8wljrpX2-OsRJenbAUTiyEPHkvvubNLwr6Jzfgi23oZ1xg3XEIjSAWr7BPPDoEnG7a4CBbMJE3QabyMmvjhhamYVxe7bYKklCzaIJMCk-x5qn6UwwfY3vdcKKriyqo/s700/roddy.hart.pk7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4U1SDyZdCtU_ZjZ5Bbx2jPQF44FjUVYdOFHqJ4bJr6sbjET_QxGH9TMquMReEwU8wljrpX2-OsRJenbAUTiyEPHkvvubNLwr6Jzfgi23oZ1xg3XEIjSAWr7BPPDoEnG7a4CBbMJE3QabyMmvjhhamYVxe7bYKklCzaIJMCk-x5qn6UwwfY3vdcKKriyqo/w400-h266/roddy.hart.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nVizi7iEwJ3vh3ChtQ8goUS82a-XcF2okqobHg60f-AIzgtGYMHnbnXVYRHXQYqD2fxdJTYZrGzI7ubcul_pdcXzlYr2x1RI9eHFT9nsXiJmcrgOffwkr71SgnJk2uk1shKdqhhxgJzFgIAEolqspjTIMbZbaoo1yuDLir2Y6K-PJH2eKQ4W0I3FKS7u/s700/DSC07048.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nVizi7iEwJ3vh3ChtQ8goUS82a-XcF2okqobHg60f-AIzgtGYMHnbnXVYRHXQYqD2fxdJTYZrGzI7ubcul_pdcXzlYr2x1RI9eHFT9nsXiJmcrgOffwkr71SgnJk2uk1shKdqhhxgJzFgIAEolqspjTIMbZbaoo1yuDLir2Y6K-PJH2eKQ4W0I3FKS7u/w400-h266/DSC07048.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><b>Emma Pollock</b> performed Gerry Rafferty’s classic <i>Night Owl. </i><b>Roddy Woomble</b> shone along with the </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">RCS Symphony Orchestra - </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">after a wobble to get Rod Jones guitar plugged in – with Idlewild songs <i>You Held the World in Your Arms and American English. </i><b>Eddi Reader</b> drew proceedings to a close with <i>In a</i> <i>Big Country</i>, followed with the entire ensemble's rousing <i>The Whole of the Moon</i> by the Waterboys. (An additional Roaming Roots Revue was performed on the Saturday at the famous Barrowlands venue.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiELPvh1lnP2ghVs0a8_5lCjkHsVGfSLLhNGGeGhaZFybikn81-Ur0eOcdWHrBHLecJl1YbLbOUH3hAJbAJjV7eNpzpmANUATpGRlW9_n8NvZe3IM6GZqlbtXkdGtwqPQZde1u1ELkUdx79abO4D7677z8WW5Z_kZ0DYV8c9lUJcNXcdZFpoDXlWh2ZQyDA/s700/roddy.hart.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiELPvh1lnP2ghVs0a8_5lCjkHsVGfSLLhNGGeGhaZFybikn81-Ur0eOcdWHrBHLecJl1YbLbOUH3hAJbAJjV7eNpzpmANUATpGRlW9_n8NvZe3IM6GZqlbtXkdGtwqPQZde1u1ELkUdx79abO4D7677z8WW5Z_kZ0DYV8c9lUJcNXcdZFpoDXlWh2ZQyDA/w400-h266/roddy.hart.pk4.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roddy Hart</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnjf55hBCJGmHTn6lyy8_7-Dz5DPjqFKNSdgcQANNpbQKNVELuvcktUDfBUByRo9BrQt5T6qzHGUlKLMbjWF3VlxIhX5A-KOO8uCYPVbmIG_iRIFSr9jvzwe7gIS35wf7IJ1Cj0tM0TqPhsJJCaMwt4noohnsj9z6rx2Zrklv2mvApZtIZsfxd2wlAPjt/s700/FrankReader.JohnDouglas.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVnjf55hBCJGmHTn6lyy8_7-Dz5DPjqFKNSdgcQANNpbQKNVELuvcktUDfBUByRo9BrQt5T6qzHGUlKLMbjWF3VlxIhX5A-KOO8uCYPVbmIG_iRIFSr9jvzwe7gIS35wf7IJ1Cj0tM0TqPhsJJCaMwt4noohnsj9z6rx2Zrklv2mvApZtIZsfxd2wlAPjt/w640-h426/FrankReader.JohnDouglas.pk.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZnBEvyu2-bH0qCjtBA6jouIDoNcl0u6E8KEWg00F_y_38Gf5nqOgGFutMd9W-s1B_NvU-bDba0mibNbDIt4Gt5MTT93_l0166CoNABVqKI8Ipx_FavvAMvLq6J1Itvd6V07uq_IOdyNBOds3DwbEgHXcGr1qsC_GLKajVtto9ebFSLqZ2oZT_6z8vk31/s700/RoddyWoomble.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="700" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ZnBEvyu2-bH0qCjtBA6jouIDoNcl0u6E8KEWg00F_y_38Gf5nqOgGFutMd9W-s1B_NvU-bDba0mibNbDIt4Gt5MTT93_l0166CoNABVqKI8Ipx_FavvAMvLq6J1Itvd6V07uq_IOdyNBOds3DwbEgHXcGr1qsC_GLKajVtto9ebFSLqZ2oZT_6z8vk31/w640-h394/RoddyWoomble.pk4.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Roddy Woomble</b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP3kuQRhCiqrb6B1diQiMKLKdcchJdbn1KzmI-Sj6_3Clrn0N5Y-yg1Ss2h_3ogtgvilmOmucF4QGE3nT1KKmWLnINlSjgQhDT9swvqZkVnPn3e3lmhaTAMT2khg4CI87OMjodrIPmP2PY9yM5s_poGOEOe9Zp9yoDKR9_lTsBtVr508a4CjqasS_Ar-a/s700/SimonNeil.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="700" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikP3kuQRhCiqrb6B1diQiMKLKdcchJdbn1KzmI-Sj6_3Clrn0N5Y-yg1Ss2h_3ogtgvilmOmucF4QGE3nT1KKmWLnINlSjgQhDT9swvqZkVnPn3e3lmhaTAMT2khg4CI87OMjodrIPmP2PY9yM5s_poGOEOe9Zp9yoDKR9_lTsBtVr508a4CjqasS_Ar-a/w640-h370/SimonNeil.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Simon Neil</b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">It would have been impossible to include every quality song of the recent decades in one concert – while I might have enjoyed to hear Deacon Blue’s Dignity or a Michael Marra song, but we were certainly very happy to hear the popular Proclaimer's anthem <i>Sunshine on Leith</i>, ably performed by <b>Admiral Fallow</b>’s Sarah Hayes and Louis Abbott! </span></div></span><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scotland has seen a resurgence of the Scots folk scene back in the 60s and 70s with folklorists and song collectors such as Margaret Bennett, Hamish Henderson, Dick Gaughan, plus the rock and pop successes over the 80s and 90s. Scots songwriters mix the ballad traditions and contemporary influences to great effect. We should be proud and happy to see the new generations take up the mantle that was first worked on to preserve Scots voices in the 1700s by poets Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9B73AkqYaV6sJSV4xo0mEEoU1pY6LdldxSnq_JmMaY1SZE5C03NdiJ_dbaF5zCpYCvTmTM63akkbqQomLtCQe_1vrWYoiPiSd2eN05P5ALi60sSRYRTSlh-AH8k3aeUCBzQnwBt8JjU5oamgbCEhDKyej3lGciHKBa_lhQA3w65IjY7wuZfSIwN9Ibp70/s700/eddie.reader.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9B73AkqYaV6sJSV4xo0mEEoU1pY6LdldxSnq_JmMaY1SZE5C03NdiJ_dbaF5zCpYCvTmTM63akkbqQomLtCQe_1vrWYoiPiSd2eN05P5ALi60sSRYRTSlh-AH8k3aeUCBzQnwBt8JjU5oamgbCEhDKyej3lGciHKBa_lhQA3w65IjY7wuZfSIwN9Ibp70/s320/eddie.reader.pk.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eddi Reader</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eddi Reader</span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Biffy Clyro’s <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Simon Neil</span></b>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Idlewild’s <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Roddy Woomble </span></b>and <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Rod Jones</span></b>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Del Amitri’s <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Justin Currie</span></b>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Camera Obscura’s <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Tracyanne Campbell</span></b>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Admiral Fallow’s <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Sarah Hayes </span></b>and <b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0cm;">Louis Abbott</span></b>, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Plus Emma Pollock, Hamish Hawk, Brownbear, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Review & Photos by Pauline Keightley - https://pkimage.co.uk</span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-59243123635006479972024-01-31T09:37:00.000-08:002024-03-04T14:48:58.474-08:00Positives for a Free Scotland II<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Recently I’ve had a health issue, and had to have various procedures and scans to access the problem and now another wait. Then a pre-op. As I read of the consultants and junior doctors continued strikes in England over pay and conditions, and the NHS there being eroded and under-funded. I am very grateful to live in Scotland and that I don’t have to worry that consultants or doctors are on strike here. Its bad enough waiting a week for test results.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I’m glad my three grown-up children don’t have huge levels of student debt to pay off. I’m glad that Scotland is at least trying to protect health care for all and the NHS. I’m glad that under Alex Salmond, Scotland developed it’s renewable potential. I’m also grateful that Sturgeon prioritised babies, nursery and childcare - with baby boxes and a child payment uplift, because she recognised that you can forget the next fifteen years at school if children get off to a bad start in life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I’m glad Scotland wants to protect food safety (but worry we won’t be “allowed” to). Yes the Scottish government made errors over the ferry procurement – but at the same time the Queensferry crossing was a success story. I’m certainly grateful to live in a Scotland where most people prioritise a well being economy, where all children deserve fair opportunities; where people value equality and a greener Scotland. The trouble is Scotland doesn’t have the levers to achieve this or a modern democracy - all it can do under the devolved settlement is to tinker at the edges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">In a federal state the central government has clearly defined roles – federal roads, foreign police – and they don’t have to “allow’ the states to do anything! </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">This confusing and unworkable devolved UK system is a mess and not used anywhere else. In a federal state the central government doesn’t “allow” the states broadcasting rights, immigration laws, or vat rates. Each state has its own laws for starters. I lived several years in Chicago and it surprised me greatly, that major decisions were made at the local level. (while things in the US are not perfect by any means). I also didn’t realise back then I should be a proud Scot. So many Scots are ignorant of our own heritage and history.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The UK system is like a parent/ child – where Whitehall will only 'allow' the Scottish people certain rights, over our own lives if it so chooses. The British state since inception, has been fixated on centralized control, of supposed “stability” of the Crown in Parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I’m proud Scotland has leading universities and innovative scientists, I’m proud Scotland has major international festivals and a successful creative community of artists and musicians. I’m proud Scotland has a wealth of resources – whisky, quality food, and the potential to be a world leader in renewables. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Even while most Scots want better equality and democracy, we don’t have the devolved levers tover the economy o achieve this – and sadly Scotland is one of the most unequal and exploited nations in the developed world. Like many Scots I wasn’t taught to be a proud Scot at school - but to feel second rate to London and its history. Just as in Northern Ireland where children are taught about English rivers, but not about their own Irish rivers!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The union believes in a mono-global culture. In the 1800s European countries realised to harness their real potential they must have national renewal and national aspiration and the map of Europe changed from huge empires to the small nations of today. Scotland must join this Europe of sovereign, free nations. In order to shape and control our future destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">We can still share security and co-operate on defence with rUK, independence just means that Scots voices have a say and not just a tiny Tory elite.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-29527219291956992402024-01-14T17:27:00.000-08:002024-01-15T16:38:49.481-08:00Celtic Connections 2024!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OEbsbU7cLrZNz1Tba8lV9m2VC4Qdl1ZNBK3sW4mDmcgTKPHNHil_xAq0MVgUo9sZiUK-KGS7HBiZ1pmMlfK8iXgMVHIG_C3zwZVAZZrQTqIti5FxX1819lgix9rfb19q_fVicHyyYqznrlfybwc2iI5evNMxQJbGswzBsfMe0wEgg1pNfKTUv3_xt2Wz/s700/transatlantic-session.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="700" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3OEbsbU7cLrZNz1Tba8lV9m2VC4Qdl1ZNBK3sW4mDmcgTKPHNHil_xAq0MVgUo9sZiUK-KGS7HBiZ1pmMlfK8iXgMVHIG_C3zwZVAZZrQTqIti5FxX1819lgix9rfb19q_fVicHyyYqznrlfybwc2iI5evNMxQJbGswzBsfMe0wEgg1pNfKTUv3_xt2Wz/w640-h334/transatlantic-session.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Folk music. What is folk music?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">This festival is definitively NOT about only about folk music. Some might argue it should be more narrowly about Trad – while others want to hear experimental cross overs and colorations. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Celtic Connections is definitely full of unexpected collaboration. One of its strengths is it diversity – crossing boundaries while drawing on Celtic heritage and traditions, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">There is always a wide variety of MUSIC at Celtic Connections – </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">with its breadth of genres and cultures. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">The festival is known as Europe’s premier folk, roots and world music festival, and the home of spectacular musical collaborations. <b>Celtic Connections</b> has continued to expand into a multitude of genres over its 30-year history. In 2024 the festival will stage an ambitious genre-defying programme of acoustic, traditional, indie, Americana, Jazz, blues, orchestral, experimental and more. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Americana – Bruce Hornsby, Bela Fleck, Molly Fleck. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Pipes – Finlay MacDonald, Skerryvore (folk rock), Ross Ainslie and Ali Hutton. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Gaelic – Julie Fowlis, Joy Dunlop, Breabach, Daimh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">New composition, orchestral<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Fusion, and rock bands, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Trad music, jazz and blues<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Ceilidh and dance, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Some highlights - <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Concert for revolutionary John MacLean - Red Clydeside . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Irish group, the Bothy Band -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Dougie MacLean anniversary concert. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">The festival includes a Showcase, education, open mic, late night sessions, new talent, multi-cultural. Plus the Scottish National Whisky festival</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVPV4NfTkkJX6UcgKiF6cOWnZmewLzkVTr4fOrxMK_hcUC3V1zc9efCnykdJNvS3KQTZseFk9FMri0ReJO-8wcGWkj78PMao-vrXmjp1UN-WtBEnfWD_secx6KC2p8osG_DKFe3Pbl7EilrwcB4UjgRN20SW2-VXA3eWaf3tCam32UsDgrYZ-HD8CNlwLx/s700/_MG_1335.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVPV4NfTkkJX6UcgKiF6cOWnZmewLzkVTr4fOrxMK_hcUC3V1zc9efCnykdJNvS3KQTZseFk9FMri0ReJO-8wcGWkj78PMao-vrXmjp1UN-WtBEnfWD_secx6KC2p8osG_DKFe3Pbl7EilrwcB4UjgRN20SW2-VXA3eWaf3tCam32UsDgrYZ-HD8CNlwLx/w400-h213/_MG_1335.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuxc2KZ_UCc4myWvUwGe_0BE2mmJxxKtzyHRzixDZ3L6Hxtn0NtXbbue8mBwZ9w-IDeGexVdj5KCd3gJCO3pU8puyTia7_qRHqv796QI-YG6gCBhInraRCPBSbmYSxEWKGg1xiA6fp0FFSQNPy43HYb_asNHCRrvQO4ng8Ay7D-7jCRIp9CVIUpvMgSSB7/s700/IMG_1215.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="700" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuxc2KZ_UCc4myWvUwGe_0BE2mmJxxKtzyHRzixDZ3L6Hxtn0NtXbbue8mBwZ9w-IDeGexVdj5KCd3gJCO3pU8puyTia7_qRHqv796QI-YG6gCBhInraRCPBSbmYSxEWKGg1xiA6fp0FFSQNPy43HYb_asNHCRrvQO4ng8Ay7D-7jCRIp9CVIUpvMgSSB7/w400-h191/IMG_1215.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Celtic Connections of one of the world’s largest winter music and folk festivals, I always remember being in the Press office with a London reporter. I said you must have folk festivals like this in London – he replied, ’Oh nothing at all on this scale!”</span><div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">“Celtic Connections stands as a testament to Glasgow’s status as the UK’s top cultural and creative city, honoured by the European commission. The festival embodies a global tapestry of music, welcoming diverse traditions from across the world. “<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">I’ve been covering Celtic Connections concerts from 2008-2024 (over 16 years) with both reviews and photos. I have so many highlights to recall – impressive opening concerts, old Fruitmarket buzz, the ABC venue (sadly no longer there due to the art school fire), the late sessions, Danny Kyle stage – and so much more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">TICKETS at <a href="https://www.celticconnections.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.celticconnections.com</span></a>. <b>Celtic Connections 2024</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDEyZTNt00ynMZMMs0qQEzYvOyMrhZlujUif8JvuDasyArYEgCEh6aFavZFWlTnhWjH-D5Qljq2R33prAp-TNo33Hk34dmG814_enopyhmU3ClRItqMU8AhTBolc9R5pTZOCa6MY1lLtXT-hYwek1JHBLPquHhd9HwcX8RGG0Ia8ye2hP3UjbfZ1CXl49/s700/NicolaBenedetti.pk%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkDEyZTNt00ynMZMMs0qQEzYvOyMrhZlujUif8JvuDasyArYEgCEh6aFavZFWlTnhWjH-D5Qljq2R33prAp-TNo33Hk34dmG814_enopyhmU3ClRItqMU8AhTBolc9R5pTZOCa6MY1lLtXT-hYwek1JHBLPquHhd9HwcX8RGG0Ia8ye2hP3UjbfZ1CXl49/w400-h266/NicolaBenedetti.pk%20(3).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP3KpX12dhIi7ffxzZIGcMPyyJJdXeop9IlDabYV3XuyxH31JV7f5oEXU37Hzu9PeXmg7cfNi4KBTLNE26DCVse1-QR1uo9JxZFj9b4QlHflpMj63mMisKcDGf0DVN7xrihGLkHw-PU9kicFKQQ9IbKFFazkfMq_JK7tCjzL3Zd-SwvdgmTnIXH2w4DGj/s700/Aly.Bain.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEP3KpX12dhIi7ffxzZIGcMPyyJJdXeop9IlDabYV3XuyxH31JV7f5oEXU37Hzu9PeXmg7cfNi4KBTLNE26DCVse1-QR1uo9JxZFj9b4QlHflpMj63mMisKcDGf0DVN7xrihGLkHw-PU9kicFKQQ9IbKFFazkfMq_JK7tCjzL3Zd-SwvdgmTnIXH2w4DGj/w400-h266/Aly.Bain.pk.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcNVJaZLuN5YxsbMTtL4Db1oSoxcDUD8OCxQ26xv-hvi2J8QheKKv0829l8t_epSs2LITzJaFZ2pYcm40zOHjMWeqf3-TpO6_2ge0ZP7ADseeaArmKgMs1-7JnDy8Rvp-uNaH3DU8UVXaTKpk4GLa9CyiYi7JZ_zge9HlOE27a1apMPah9i64lQ0_rdDX/s700/Jerry.Douglas4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXcNVJaZLuN5YxsbMTtL4Db1oSoxcDUD8OCxQ26xv-hvi2J8QheKKv0829l8t_epSs2LITzJaFZ2pYcm40zOHjMWeqf3-TpO6_2ge0ZP7ADseeaArmKgMs1-7JnDy8Rvp-uNaH3DU8UVXaTKpk4GLa9CyiYi7JZ_zge9HlOE27a1apMPah9i64lQ0_rdDX/s320/Jerry.Douglas4.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnr22smGddQRjbLKuPTXWoiLFy9gK_lA22k_pUfncCaw7JJ6551aJWtDbSVAZoWFOaNarZBROlZvx43xNBLBUxucLMVC9cBNmMIoqYOjCznzP2LcYKBVU2vee1H2kqJtbGmd6l-djB7_u1o2CvT3ROiIOaBFHz8XDV29LBSmY9yooYMJws0dnodN2ivF9X/s700/JulieFowlisPilgrimer.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="700" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnr22smGddQRjbLKuPTXWoiLFy9gK_lA22k_pUfncCaw7JJ6551aJWtDbSVAZoWFOaNarZBROlZvx43xNBLBUxucLMVC9cBNmMIoqYOjCznzP2LcYKBVU2vee1H2kqJtbGmd6l-djB7_u1o2CvT3ROiIOaBFHz8XDV29LBSmY9yooYMJws0dnodN2ivF9X/w640-h384/JulieFowlisPilgrimer.pk3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxhyVHWVhsGsdimwoFrvbiVpW_PHhj3fBnbuSbL7RbLUqOpYTEvy7ZP_DrKKuKAiinq5vGc6Jh_2FnZy0uBt1TJIJ9SeVw2KpTxMbtkxdIrSfgSrdt9-vyMTPK-7rNGBJlHOO13cSpnOlxZYNKb9GysGD2iQbsMq7xZhAEqUeseh_WZe_Cb25upXKVEZT/s700/finale-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="700" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRxhyVHWVhsGsdimwoFrvbiVpW_PHhj3fBnbuSbL7RbLUqOpYTEvy7ZP_DrKKuKAiinq5vGc6Jh_2FnZy0uBt1TJIJ9SeVw2KpTxMbtkxdIrSfgSrdt9-vyMTPK-7rNGBJlHOO13cSpnOlxZYNKb9GysGD2iQbsMq7xZhAEqUeseh_WZe_Cb25upXKVEZT/w640-h342/finale-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-9667191724902010172023-12-31T15:31:00.000-08:002024-01-03T15:29:26.880-08:00SCOTS TRAD AWARDS 2023<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2n2YOOJ0Oo8n7I_3bBZjC4FhsEB-qpCKOGUuO_3feMSTfxbovJbtzGyAgr5BSbm912DTdTelbgzzHYnQ6VYyR2Lq57wxGuAHC_ZRC-G9qB10-bE4WWbxTtJFlyqaZkwY8E3lILzhlts3qIqAppzILY6xpczqAuL79Xj0G31vxSmQ1UHBlDo95R1rJ4sQ/s700/Kim.Carnie.pk3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrc-8A8e_WOZx0LfC53edp0r2mSCWE_f62Ml8vyIq4-t8PAMkYhvS49YbghoFa30SpUlD63szkkP-dLtqb5H6uEPrLncXxc-T-O3BvbR76bp9v_3bveUAmH0tQAmfv9UZ5x14R6wts8297HT37tVNOrAEwp400roWpRmzs6zPhwj7C3a5hhXDF69HvpfUw/s700/Kim.Carnie.pk9.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrc-8A8e_WOZx0LfC53edp0r2mSCWE_f62Ml8vyIq4-t8PAMkYhvS49YbghoFa30SpUlD63szkkP-dLtqb5H6uEPrLncXxc-T-O3BvbR76bp9v_3bveUAmH0tQAmfv9UZ5x14R6wts8297HT37tVNOrAEwp400roWpRmzs6zPhwj7C3a5hhXDF69HvpfUw/w400-h266/Kim.Carnie.pk9.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kim Carnie</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZW8_xcHJmArRe2ca2FD0MhUeax4TeGpb9tJjXboOU5byru5Q6lWffIUk-LM8pJvLfWrvZLbePfhMcInsQ6q1vXA_upCq7zi3RnZep6U0xU2yec8v_hEoIfYhn4J5eiCB2ehmeyaBtDDHUxmDmU2eY0D199Nf93A3A3Yx7eSIcvj9mR03Tnd8J84eJmPXx/s700/blazinfiddles.pk%20(10).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZW8_xcHJmArRe2ca2FD0MhUeax4TeGpb9tJjXboOU5byru5Q6lWffIUk-LM8pJvLfWrvZLbePfhMcInsQ6q1vXA_upCq7zi3RnZep6U0xU2yec8v_hEoIfYhn4J5eiCB2ehmeyaBtDDHUxmDmU2eY0D199Nf93A3A3Yx7eSIcvj9mR03Tnd8J84eJmPXx/w400-h266/blazinfiddles.pk%20(10).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blazin fiddles</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiuF0U6XeXZkCg3ap6ueZR_1_Vq5KBwqV59rSyh_87bMLvMxofxGCzsng64jRtP3AjiDNKCa8eT3b0HAwxu0dLzAPjhzu1WcRklebkprh0U_ryzVMK8V8NuyZNg7-tkbGs4h2yHsT-y-rz7L51_hKqdgpiNfdaP9J2DtAVu30xV7txokTK4Z7iIGnEywE/s700/26230273_1785979698099613_787054354695992730_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwiuF0U6XeXZkCg3ap6ueZR_1_Vq5KBwqV59rSyh_87bMLvMxofxGCzsng64jRtP3AjiDNKCa8eT3b0HAwxu0dLzAPjhzu1WcRklebkprh0U_ryzVMK8V8NuyZNg7-tkbGs4h2yHsT-y-rz7L51_hKqdgpiNfdaP9J2DtAVu30xV7txokTK4Z7iIGnEywE/w400-h266/26230273_1785979698099613_787054354695992730_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">21st<sup>st</sup> MG ALBA Scots Trad Music awards</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Took place at the Dundee Caird hall this November and was presented by Alistair Heather and Mary Ann Kennedy – the awards reflect the success and Scotland’s rich cultural heritage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><b><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Along with grand performances by Joy Dunlop, Duncan Chisholm, Peatbog Fairies and Scottish Trad party starters Manran.</span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjibtncYT02XY_nKJinLxF3Xi4gEKkqIXemVNJI_JbN43HSkt2r8cNmkg2FI1kHfMQj9ycZtAR_LB1cfvG_4vM143eJUN-DUYk0t-m9sFyxsZdYsIcqmAvyHuAot9ABZRj1oDC_sY9817GPYrXP9DhnQBH72Ny_oAdlyiurCmdi-emDYMMnoK-ReKiEasn/s700/blazinfiddles.pk1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjibtncYT02XY_nKJinLxF3Xi4gEKkqIXemVNJI_JbN43HSkt2r8cNmkg2FI1kHfMQj9ycZtAR_LB1cfvG_4vM143eJUN-DUYk0t-m9sFyxsZdYsIcqmAvyHuAot9ABZRj1oDC_sY9817GPYrXP9DhnQBH72Ny_oAdlyiurCmdi-emDYMMnoK-ReKiEasn/s320/blazinfiddles.pk1.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-079rLxRqRIx4h_koaqfIzAx3gYWnce2d1U8uPg8pc1EXX4Wl1zdNC9rD8gCDLDT-x9sv33rJuu55XTvduP4uiRa6aBzOtnU-LNCFJlOd4o2DCbcCjMHhWv8KfPuDmwtAMGh3pn3oE3fbNNA-x-SY8ARU6RTr-iE7Qg9Fg7hMIzE3KcpL9wWel8O00OUG/s700/blazinfiddles.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-079rLxRqRIx4h_koaqfIzAx3gYWnce2d1U8uPg8pc1EXX4Wl1zdNC9rD8gCDLDT-x9sv33rJuu55XTvduP4uiRa6aBzOtnU-LNCFJlOd4o2DCbcCjMHhWv8KfPuDmwtAMGh3pn3oE3fbNNA-x-SY8ARU6RTr-iE7Qg9Fg7hMIzE3KcpL9wWel8O00OUG/s320/blazinfiddles.pk4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqI-G8DvOdukKv8gld9vQn-yIiEzeK0nWAXXMHjtUHGbeD51DJJebmLGQASHmuFycRHSxPrkdL-0djFvItwU3wxVKsaC66vF7tlMZEyX6wezJKobViGHsss3Mg1OGAZs54u8dNUK6dsi2FZ8RX-2GcPpvii3bpTSo6NgYoZlPVMhT4VFA0y-ffh4NZrBKY/s700/DuncanChisholm.pk%20(4).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqI-G8DvOdukKv8gld9vQn-yIiEzeK0nWAXXMHjtUHGbeD51DJJebmLGQASHmuFycRHSxPrkdL-0djFvItwU3wxVKsaC66vF7tlMZEyX6wezJKobViGHsss3Mg1OGAZs54u8dNUK6dsi2FZ8RX-2GcPpvii3bpTSo6NgYoZlPVMhT4VFA0y-ffh4NZrBKY/s320/DuncanChisholm.pk%20(4).jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Duncan Chisholm</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #222222;">*</span><span><span style="color: #cccccc;">*AWARD WINNERS INCLUDE -</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Ducan Chisholm – Album of the year<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Peatbog Fairies – (Skye folk fusion) - folk band of the year<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Julie Fowlis – Musician of the year<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Joy Dunlop – Gaelic singer<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Eilidh Cormack - Gaelic Singer of the Year,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Iona Fyfe – Citty Finlayson Scots Singer of the Year</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Blazin Fiddles – Folk band of the year<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The Shand- Up and coming artist of the year <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Trail West – live act of the year<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">**The Gatherin south sessions – club of the year</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 19.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbKIHgSYQgaTvPdXsWogdhkwaPvBATpB8MX2LOppDW6VfF5DzMKdDiyyb-BtcXGjtMAlLPepPDn_H9mei75ErviKAkwTyTHQ1aBMXx-dN5bt6qWC-tSrsRJAoqKQQWVJI3peO7zit9UsKc8jmxUoi_x9xnDDPSm9MyDulbeso__23OKSmkWxj4EfMboHG/s690/juliefowlis20.pk%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="460" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisbKIHgSYQgaTvPdXsWogdhkwaPvBATpB8MX2LOppDW6VfF5DzMKdDiyyb-BtcXGjtMAlLPepPDn_H9mei75ErviKAkwTyTHQ1aBMXx-dN5bt6qWC-tSrsRJAoqKQQWVJI3peO7zit9UsKc8jmxUoi_x9xnDDPSm9MyDulbeso__23OKSmkWxj4EfMboHG/w213-h320/juliefowlis20.pk%20(3).jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julie Fowlis</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMXimiw8XsNucP8K89nBYgU-rn84QUQq-HVlJbdlPOqHFgKvW9REmRO9MINbfSD_WVuBmZZMRiL_OGmcFIk1WI_7u4UMYS8oOfjsIcQiFIkI7cWL391aQFDCRYPc_jqUE8LOy7bb2RZYhbcKyKc5JDt8tC_lWSQbitQhJgKhHkh5W6g31Q7gO7y6csqxS/s700/blazinfiddles.pk%20(10).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdMXimiw8XsNucP8K89nBYgU-rn84QUQq-HVlJbdlPOqHFgKvW9REmRO9MINbfSD_WVuBmZZMRiL_OGmcFIk1WI_7u4UMYS8oOfjsIcQiFIkI7cWL391aQFDCRYPc_jqUE8LOy7bb2RZYhbcKyKc5JDt8tC_lWSQbitQhJgKhHkh5W6g31Q7gO7y6csqxS/w400-h266/blazinfiddles.pk%20(10).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-92229570285407570552023-12-31T15:29:00.000-08:002024-01-03T15:34:59.920-08:002023 Year of Challenges<p> <b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3wURi931isoP5rU-6LOYWEH4gzmC_TG3VAwiNzu_ZPW7v034nnp_NvR-mLpdHndOCw89KR0BzllztMghrSKbbzbLJjG_9_HBXb2zvgAClggwwbvexoGya3Ac_ljHHnmqROCqVg2xp6I-ZKswIRNSAAmYIrvyXwXd26tXCTeO4WIcemzXUMjlMAX9f-qFs/s4192/bob.dylan.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2514" data-original-width="4192" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3wURi931isoP5rU-6LOYWEH4gzmC_TG3VAwiNzu_ZPW7v034nnp_NvR-mLpdHndOCw89KR0BzllztMghrSKbbzbLJjG_9_HBXb2zvgAClggwwbvexoGya3Ac_ljHHnmqROCqVg2xp6I-ZKswIRNSAAmYIrvyXwXd26tXCTeO4WIcemzXUMjlMAX9f-qFs/w640-h384/bob.dylan.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Its been a strange old year! Of scandals, inquiries, conflicts, of unexpected turbulence, global wars, right wing populism. Bob Dylan wrote once – “I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">We must speak up. Every voice matters – if one voice becomes a thousand ripples, like the little pebbles thrown into the murky waters.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Its been a tough year physically for me, while I continue with my many projects. Then the day after news of an operation I’d require, I had my Facebook profile hacked and I’ve been unable to contact Facebook. Its been tough trying to reset up a new FB page – my previous online page had around 800 followers and 12 years of around 50 photo albums. Ah well… here’s to new beginnings! For 2024<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">“Those who see wrong, and know it is wrong, but say nothing…”</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">“I still say that some of the biggest criminals are those that turn their heads away when they see wrong and know it’s wrong. “ </span></b><b><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">DYLAN, I’m only 21 years old and I know that there’s been too many wars… You people over 21 should know better. The first way to answer these questions in the song is by asking them. But lots of people have to first find the wind.</span></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">*MUSIC 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Lana Del Rey – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Christine and the Queens – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Duncan Chisholm – Black Cullins<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #0f0f0f; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Bach Goldberg variations piano Vikingur<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">*YEAR in Scottish politics <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Has been very strange with many conflicting forces: I’m not sure how much I believe of the nonsense put out by the media and press coming out of London. London sucks in so much – in London they spend £75 per person on the arts, in the rest of the UK merely £10 per person:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">And Gaza?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">If a terrorist group from Ireland took UK citizens hostages – I would expect the British army to do something to retrieve the hostages ……… BUT I would not expect them to bomb children indiscriminately! Over 16,000 Palestinians have been murdered, half of these “people’ are children. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">I’d be wondering too why this group felt so angry they felt the need to behave in such a barbaric way. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Nicola Sturgeon</span></b><span style="font-size: 9pt;">? She was by miles the most popular politician in the UK. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-weight: bold;">Humza Yousaf - </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">The First Muslin leader in the western world.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">*I agree with Gerry Hassan’s critical article on Labour’s failures to address any sort of vision for the British state. What I don’t understand about these British/ English political parties is - what is there vision, or what country are they trying to emulate – America? In Scotland w</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">ith our aging population we desperately need young workers to come and live here. How can they wend people back to France, when France and Germany are taking in far more refugees that the UK does. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">(Timothy Calumet will play the young Bob Dylan in a new film)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbqE4Jr026C3reIrilIESSyGldVii-lfFpZmcC1C0tQy2tJKHCoaxRINo6MoI7cI7vECAmxaQ5h9sVK7TsUQvN9DGob9Jp1zinYJHvJsZFp7hZB2tgKE0T8HjoGHBhN4S_0PySL7fLVlLWTvabtv-Z1OlNOLbjjN-WfDIpXn3i3Ow_H8Pd4FpXD4fFeY4/s1500/timothee-chalamet-bob-dylan-101723-a30b8ae4d9654204ba0674122351b50e.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkbqE4Jr026C3reIrilIESSyGldVii-lfFpZmcC1C0tQy2tJKHCoaxRINo6MoI7cI7vECAmxaQ5h9sVK7TsUQvN9DGob9Jp1zinYJHvJsZFp7hZB2tgKE0T8HjoGHBhN4S_0PySL7fLVlLWTvabtv-Z1OlNOLbjjN-WfDIpXn3i3Ow_H8Pd4FpXD4fFeY4/s320/timothee-chalamet-bob-dylan-101723-a30b8ae4d9654204ba0674122351b50e.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-37726741670726615022023-12-31T15:05:00.000-08:002023-12-31T15:05:47.192-08:00Stories of Scotia<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSp3fAfyumOvVCmL1llWEU7NVHdf-wsJDQAO0b6UxKQ9FDjDt2_EXJDaC_CdVI5_xJaJfFwJ8D3ODN4uckP6n7hCuP4y0iWpQLjjw2dJVv73YLyPzm4FlGzlWeKF1vjTkVjjtt3EHZUdRapVXFznrAZjhjFA7xrx6GV8jiuJ4vV3_xNFqXExj22YkZwoHm/s1200/James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street,_Edinburgh.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSp3fAfyumOvVCmL1llWEU7NVHdf-wsJDQAO0b6UxKQ9FDjDt2_EXJDaC_CdVI5_xJaJfFwJ8D3ODN4uckP6n7hCuP4y0iWpQLjjw2dJVv73YLyPzm4FlGzlWeKF1vjTkVjjtt3EHZUdRapVXFznrAZjhjFA7xrx6GV8jiuJ4vV3_xNFqXExj22YkZwoHm/s320/James_Clerk_Maxwell_statue_in_George_Street,_Edinburgh.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">James Clerk Maxwell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;">What happened? What happened to the lost voices – of Father John Macdonald of the Hebrides (Barra), and of those forced on ships to Canada, many left, some came back. Those who travelled to the city lights of London; those who took to the seas of far away Eastern countries – to places of conflict.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Only in 1990s, thirty years ago, statues were erected to some great Scots – such as great physicist James Clerk Maxwell, Elsie Inglis, great economist Adam Smith, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Its many travellers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">The Scottish samurai, Thomas Clover<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Elsie Inglis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">George Buchanan<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Robert Burns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Walter Scott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">James Hogg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Rennie Mackintosh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Ossian poems James MacPherson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Adam Smith<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Thomas Muir<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">James Clerk Maxwell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Before some signed an agreement to dissolve the Scottish parliament – but we kept our kirk and laws. For centuries Scots have looked and travelled far and wide, over its seas, taking scots song and stories with them. Some went to teach in French, German and American universities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7lNvtJ6ZntFboqoyMquHASJP8gNKQxA9bGq1J9k_WBO-lcZgQ_5bst-cON7XnoCZeIImpPIWPh33VMKW-eqXPu4t9j1ynZi5Ywy0Y03xTry6_tyDP72kwcBzAwrhIp2RZ5IxakFv60XV60ZtMQmNYDu-r7BpH7mX5AO_9gcPJtcL7f8wKo4wY4SiwlH8/s700/uist-pk10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="700" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR7lNvtJ6ZntFboqoyMquHASJP8gNKQxA9bGq1J9k_WBO-lcZgQ_5bst-cON7XnoCZeIImpPIWPh33VMKW-eqXPu4t9j1ynZi5Ywy0Y03xTry6_tyDP72kwcBzAwrhIp2RZ5IxakFv60XV60ZtMQmNYDu-r7BpH7mX5AO_9gcPJtcL7f8wKo4wY4SiwlH8/w400-h260/uist-pk10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SdJHuQjLcPAdAQmX8PDK1MZVmCc31TlyIdXFCVf0Q61_xFqxJkDAwhNMrBf8lZwzhTdXkIQgQAOeU0eGYCOIaL3cwWCyGayNIV8XNY_FuWUV3jnjoHhTVNSJCglQBag9YjHzYLc-ybHXo15OHXeHmDuSsCqsdeGUKLzLuSNz5NuZO_X8nMkbNDLnr2yN/s700/uist-pk13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7SdJHuQjLcPAdAQmX8PDK1MZVmCc31TlyIdXFCVf0Q61_xFqxJkDAwhNMrBf8lZwzhTdXkIQgQAOeU0eGYCOIaL3cwWCyGayNIV8XNY_FuWUV3jnjoHhTVNSJCglQBag9YjHzYLc-ybHXo15OHXeHmDuSsCqsdeGUKLzLuSNz5NuZO_X8nMkbNDLnr2yN/w400-h266/uist-pk13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cpwfHnBasM9FegxcPQDOZEZ_x1PdiYG1GWt_bUtOXbv-yM0ycaMrBbww4LR6gq4IdA30OHSSvypjwsoY_neJd8MTq7mReREYuarGsZydEPhWxslA5P-7JWjEU1NUZ2lxErfihcdlMbnzWMDCQh3izyrkM2xsBUpu9BM_jS6N0Hfqi1DToBGGRaL26ImR/s3000/_90A1329.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1445" data-original-width="3000" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1cpwfHnBasM9FegxcPQDOZEZ_x1PdiYG1GWt_bUtOXbv-yM0ycaMrBbww4LR6gq4IdA30OHSSvypjwsoY_neJd8MTq7mReREYuarGsZydEPhWxslA5P-7JWjEU1NUZ2lxErfihcdlMbnzWMDCQh3izyrkM2xsBUpu9BM_jS6N0Hfqi1DToBGGRaL26ImR/w400-h193/_90A1329.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Journeys<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">I have been travelling the Scottish islands - First to Orkney, which was awesome, all the history. Orkney gently tells many stories, and its ancient sagas from its rich past. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Second the outer Hebrides and the beauty of the shimmering soft blues of these landscapes is breath taking, the expanse of sands and surging seas..</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqEkQjGz4VYjj8vbpzZjuRDyldabKhmdZ_e-mDPpnXmMMp-ZjXRQYlqUFXnpl8eNEWPr2CxCWggyZmWLlPQeg9Pr8KPlU68QCJpuXeYE7sotxa5GTVR_HZ8X13oD0llNge3FUO4tj8-IkqagUQhJFMBTCxN2aQpYS7a5AIFWewwYt1c8BQH4O6uxEIVy2/s640/1380035_10151990806152975_388842772_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKqEkQjGz4VYjj8vbpzZjuRDyldabKhmdZ_e-mDPpnXmMMp-ZjXRQYlqUFXnpl8eNEWPr2CxCWggyZmWLlPQeg9Pr8KPlU68QCJpuXeYE7sotxa5GTVR_HZ8X13oD0llNge3FUO4tj8-IkqagUQhJFMBTCxN2aQpYS7a5AIFWewwYt1c8BQH4O6uxEIVy2/s320/1380035_10151990806152975_388842772_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-4551189420298706172023-12-31T15:03:00.000-08:002023-12-31T15:03:43.773-08:00Fan of Blue Rose Code<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00ZxV-CAjtCQExOByj3PknTomqw7m2eOsuhunjxPQAHeQ1TMbuGQrbdMPPlClLJ2LwrKetENDU5WyoBByU10VE-b_mzdy_082uPFxYAFWsP_Sh7WPwoZV_BZfMsDJSBXd0FVGQFC6EKZwYJnOa6317mnK1ewYnNx0e_Mg-AnYS5ZoFPuTOUo5j8A90AjR/s700/bluerosecode.pk19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00ZxV-CAjtCQExOByj3PknTomqw7m2eOsuhunjxPQAHeQ1TMbuGQrbdMPPlClLJ2LwrKetENDU5WyoBByU10VE-b_mzdy_082uPFxYAFWsP_Sh7WPwoZV_BZfMsDJSBXd0FVGQFC6EKZwYJnOa6317mnK1ewYnNx0e_Mg-AnYS5ZoFPuTOUo5j8A90AjR/w400-h266/bluerosecode.pk19.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0TDJET8Mm2zb-ALkZqtvRLdBnZcruZ35XquMUuk5DBxewXc2cmRx-IzRn7F2fNTp_GnRNs8Y27GsjaEaywNCI9CoAdgJc08MXkd7SRXTVpg1eKlii2L9Loi27XRM7fGgig7N3CFWn0L1XPyBWinwAZW9X8cVYAfR0Y5yV13GeLh_GrhK_Xx6zQBTScoc/s700/bluerosecode.pk7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV0TDJET8Mm2zb-ALkZqtvRLdBnZcruZ35XquMUuk5DBxewXc2cmRx-IzRn7F2fNTp_GnRNs8Y27GsjaEaywNCI9CoAdgJc08MXkd7SRXTVpg1eKlii2L9Loi27XRM7fGgig7N3CFWn0L1XPyBWinwAZW9X8cVYAfR0Y5yV13GeLh_GrhK_Xx6zQBTScoc/w400-h266/bluerosecode.pk7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQOl_hfJNW6JnopkhuRsjHxHMq_z8zQYXun_IlqNnlXYYCnpPqUs34KRX5tAWINrevjeWtF8Cz6m5dz8fXgo1beecLM__MxWOZ6qyxCSB1EFGKTamL9eZs-gLFMm2XPq78DLr3apKVHriRlarcAd_PjDsjA-P1MeRFihgYM_KDRFXVK6dkBAy-Ezz-xhw/s700/bluerosecode.pk3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQOl_hfJNW6JnopkhuRsjHxHMq_z8zQYXun_IlqNnlXYYCnpPqUs34KRX5tAWINrevjeWtF8Cz6m5dz8fXgo1beecLM__MxWOZ6qyxCSB1EFGKTamL9eZs-gLFMm2XPq78DLr3apKVHriRlarcAd_PjDsjA-P1MeRFihgYM_KDRFXVK6dkBAy-Ezz-xhw/w400-h266/bluerosecode.pk3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-S_1DV0zkIb3I-l7PZ-d_dtuTCk3rLrvM8OYXNj24cBCGdib4D4xVkDKat95xyy2xa9PWgJcp0ARkkLQEdNPFN7cKzKyxST1x_C8O1TI6nfg8qZKaYfo5zGivz4AMRtqde383i1Jfh9jy3mUP_Apjxg_JZHzqEju36mGdLLcy2QAkbpqshMmJmaZmDSA/s700/bluerosecode.pk2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-S_1DV0zkIb3I-l7PZ-d_dtuTCk3rLrvM8OYXNj24cBCGdib4D4xVkDKat95xyy2xa9PWgJcp0ARkkLQEdNPFN7cKzKyxST1x_C8O1TI6nfg8qZKaYfo5zGivz4AMRtqde383i1Jfh9jy3mUP_Apjxg_JZHzqEju36mGdLLcy2QAkbpqshMmJmaZmDSA/w400-h266/bluerosecode.pk2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyJ_axG1eu8HT8p4OVdL4M-S_O7P1ml2M1z51SlRF4p1ZyaKHxEFwYGBY6smrOzJY-N_cdK_uTWvYiRfPyLXADKx97AUizMHqkoS3zQM-Wwu6Af6pMDneNn_p0osprOyNGvHf0zFeOYstIiNiHRm3Kb1TuPxjm2mEPS3LeIqhHw0oF2n6R_d48HulzzFZ/s700/_90A9413-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyJ_axG1eu8HT8p4OVdL4M-S_O7P1ml2M1z51SlRF4p1ZyaKHxEFwYGBY6smrOzJY-N_cdK_uTWvYiRfPyLXADKx97AUizMHqkoS3zQM-Wwu6Af6pMDneNn_p0osprOyNGvHf0zFeOYstIiNiHRm3Kb1TuPxjm2mEPS3LeIqhHw0oF2n6R_d48HulzzFZ/w400-h266/_90A9413-2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">One of my favourite Scots musicians. I first heard his gig at Milngavie folk club back in 2016, when we enjoyed his dynamic soul-infused voice and songs. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Many were long time fans and there was a great deal of love for Ross Wilson in the room that night. He sang classics from his</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">albums. <b>A Restless Soul</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Since then I’ve bought several BRC albums and been to several of his concerts – at the Old Fruitmarket during Celtic Connections <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">My favourite BRC songs include Red Kites, Love a little, Grateful, Edina, </span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Over</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> the Fields, Give me Peace in my Heart, more..... </span></span></b><span style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7-zCYpMXsPxuGvwvvAtA6bIfMCmFh63JoPz5cQWuowzksTkXFj5wToRHVpez7i95Tv2KTRESTZBm8_VYnalSLo60GBE7WHTj8aVPqV7zCDBcpT8nAozvRf67Q_l6fdfhP1qtyfVc9GMZwNCbQoefguwL-lq20-ZWJSOFfqYVAcNcRGkmB3dQNLJmqCC_/s700/bluerosecode.MFC11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="700" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm7-zCYpMXsPxuGvwvvAtA6bIfMCmFh63JoPz5cQWuowzksTkXFj5wToRHVpez7i95Tv2KTRESTZBm8_VYnalSLo60GBE7WHTj8aVPqV7zCDBcpT8nAozvRf67Q_l6fdfhP1qtyfVc9GMZwNCbQoefguwL-lq20-ZWJSOFfqYVAcNcRGkmB3dQNLJmqCC_/w640-h426/bluerosecode.MFC11.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blue Rose Code Milngavie folk club</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwojR5IOspf0VpkUbPJq2k-Er33BCG3AAwTQ2QT-l4U_3KbpZlxmad6dGZurzlWqLEb7v7s1MK50Xp1eCgLiezblBBGAPMXHwRBuUxpV6dNrXazQ5fdVsqjN8g9XMbXVvKntrgIYfC1zxlru6nSoTgw6A1A7rtuuzUR33kSPr5JL5kDUh9zbSEER4OnMv9/s700/bluerosecode.MFC2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="467" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwojR5IOspf0VpkUbPJq2k-Er33BCG3AAwTQ2QT-l4U_3KbpZlxmad6dGZurzlWqLEb7v7s1MK50Xp1eCgLiezblBBGAPMXHwRBuUxpV6dNrXazQ5fdVsqjN8g9XMbXVvKntrgIYfC1zxlru6nSoTgw6A1A7rtuuzUR33kSPr5JL5kDUh9zbSEER4OnMv9/w426-h640/bluerosecode.MFC2.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-20610031846442362162023-11-30T15:08:00.000-08:002023-12-01T17:21:20.815-08:00The Break up of Britain Conference in recognition Tom Nairn November 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2d8jkL1e24Y-1BvUP-X5sGirlgUrQYEQbSo3BR7KrlqLpyidp9_Fs4-Jn3BiGVF653EJJzoiil3KycUluFlfcYjXWF06DKPd6Wx8Ah3pAI8VZOCeDFSQynFldiqaKlU3ud0Y1pEzXdHEAB5YTo0oecGM-DF43mprLxFhzQJhmBzBf7hFa5b4u97wI38i/s4032/IMG_0199.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd2d8jkL1e24Y-1BvUP-X5sGirlgUrQYEQbSo3BR7KrlqLpyidp9_Fs4-Jn3BiGVF653EJJzoiil3KycUluFlfcYjXWF06DKPd6Wx8Ah3pAI8VZOCeDFSQynFldiqaKlU3ud0Y1pEzXdHEAB5YTo0oecGM-DF43mprLxFhzQJhmBzBf7hFa5b4u97wI38i/w400-h300/IMG_0199.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9P9dKGbb92QFX6AK3RIPkj2NweppgCzE5-gR5Up2VZfmGYiBIvpLz2HsOvKpTYlhqfBZWnfADFwdFl12dZSMWQQ7KPoJOeModXKfyJfH0qanEdUcoEbDAiol0GLcCrwi4fudVwE96fsRzDR4QPmswfkpoVwTlBynsKdUlx9-W_b89Mt7PIgHi0_hobxV/s4032/IMG_0200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU9P9dKGbb92QFX6AK3RIPkj2NweppgCzE5-gR5Up2VZfmGYiBIvpLz2HsOvKpTYlhqfBZWnfADFwdFl12dZSMWQQ7KPoJOeModXKfyJfH0qanEdUcoEbDAiol0GLcCrwi4fudVwE96fsRzDR4QPmswfkpoVwTlBynsKdUlx9-W_b89Mt7PIgHi0_hobxV/w400-h300/IMG_0200.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Tom Nairn has been a guiding light. </span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He took Scotland’s constitutional questions and nationalism onto the global stage. Nairn gave us secure political foundations on which to build. He was instrumental in changing Scotland’s nationalism from a parochial to a more international and wide ranging civic nationalism. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">After the failed 1978 Scottish assembly referendum – there was broad movements for democratic renewal. Nairn marched every step of the way. He was deeply humane. He was both a poet and philosopher: he was a revolutionary and son of European culture. He was Professor of politics Melbourne. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jKE5lRBqv00bhu96xRhIR8sinxrSyubhJr9MnMTD7J_gocaPZDIcOzm38k4lyDuonctzrVIN5X-t0Mg0i5Ln4idWbh9mF2VNZaoi4dbWDHMGXiWcvuQaqKDIDjzK8axYbZ97MX41QNHZnDq9RtwvfBvczlphpch3X9jy3EBRs1JFF_6AXuBwX6Ex1KoZ/s4032/IMG_0207.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_jKE5lRBqv00bhu96xRhIR8sinxrSyubhJr9MnMTD7J_gocaPZDIcOzm38k4lyDuonctzrVIN5X-t0Mg0i5Ln4idWbh9mF2VNZaoi4dbWDHMGXiWcvuQaqKDIDjzK8axYbZ97MX41QNHZnDq9RtwvfBvczlphpch3X9jy3EBRs1JFF_6AXuBwX6Ex1KoZ/w400-h300/IMG_0207.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clive Lewis</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMICvjIY0_6a1s37J4DXWGIXe41vEmV_lhKajitVF_yTNE5bqkj-wIUdR0aiQ6-jxaDTsFb6_mnANkHbPQs9loljUsvT-pCrmXbEBHWi2XCGlkqO_Wcc9MswYAxmg4HPd9n4PZ1NmzOTkKvESb_IRwNXpumd60nDJktMqveumGbNYg28JflpvPA1FuHWG/s4032/IMG_0205.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkMICvjIY0_6a1s37J4DXWGIXe41vEmV_lhKajitVF_yTNE5bqkj-wIUdR0aiQ6-jxaDTsFb6_mnANkHbPQs9loljUsvT-pCrmXbEBHWi2XCGlkqO_Wcc9MswYAxmg4HPd9n4PZ1NmzOTkKvESb_IRwNXpumd60nDJktMqveumGbNYg28JflpvPA1FuHWG/w400-h300/IMG_0205.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The conference brought voices from around all the four nations together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">*Green MP Caroline Lucas<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">English people also feel without a voice. Some cling to delusions and divisions – Brexit has deepened the crisis: every English region voted to leave. Who are the English? has been hijacked by the right. England is also the land of Tom Paine, chartists, suffragettes and ancient multi-cultural heritage. Is there another England – its urgent and important we must rediscover a new England Free these histories.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">*Plaid Cymru MP Leanne Woods<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Brexit vote expressed the democratic crisis – with our unelected elite making our decisions. Labour are about continuity and only so such devolution: its never enough. She spoke of the devastation of the miners strikes and disaster, didn’t matter. Our binary outcomes – with PR, won’t go beyond red tie/ blue tie. Welsh devolution not more than the Welsh assembly and of the preservation and control from the centre. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">*CLVE LEWIS labour MP for Norwich south.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Who defied his labour whip to attend. He also spoke of the stories we tell ourselves. We need a new story of Britain – not the Enoch Powell (1950) version of ‘plucky Britain’. He spoke of the international questions and crisis and of viewing the crisis in the international context of the global elites who hoard the wealth. He said collaboration stopped at Westminster. Unawareness in the rest of UK of conversation of Scotland. Yorkshire flag – says they don’t want to be part of the elites. Labour won’t let discussion happen. Clive spoke of Corbyn – he had some good ideas but wrong messenger. Labour should embrace conversations – but can it seriously be changed from within?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">*Lesley Riddoch, journalist and activist – Time to Create a new state.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">There’s another state waiting: different conception of what Britain might be. Exceptionalism is </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">falling apart. Riddoch was proud – and said, we’ve wasted so much time. It was good to get all perspectives. She spoke of Denmark, which used to control an empire but lost all of them 1864 in a terrible war. Scandinavia learned to let go without fighting. The problem in archaic British state is the divine right of kings is held with the PM, who can do as he likes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">There were also several break out rooms that covered topics such as – Irish re-unification, the monarchy, what next, Scotland in Europe. </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkx5T8Vrx3mkOpuAd0Ae9iuWNMhIHK07w4Hxk49Cai-chOMcW1IKob_z9Nq5fb1KtDqgJNYabOSQuRYEUmiiiQZCDV-uOmdgGnoMhodSoT41vLZzMacEOCd4NxY9sBDjjwL72meWVxnHZGFZ5NyzmD8KjD-HyykKfbCQ54jNljQVrUoDohyphenhypheno74KdhhfHr5/s4032/IMG_0209.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkx5T8Vrx3mkOpuAd0Ae9iuWNMhIHK07w4Hxk49Cai-chOMcW1IKob_z9Nq5fb1KtDqgJNYabOSQuRYEUmiiiQZCDV-uOmdgGnoMhodSoT41vLZzMacEOCd4NxY9sBDjjwL72meWVxnHZGFZ5NyzmD8KjD-HyykKfbCQ54jNljQVrUoDohyphenhypheno74KdhhfHr5/s320/IMG_0209.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Hilary Wainwright said we must tear down the barricades (as in 1968) for democratic change. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Or should we join Labour to make changes!” is this truly possible?? Is it British nationalism that has a problem – of denial, exceptionalism, and divisiveness. Britain denies nationalism. Scottish identity is not so deep rooted and has been stripped so often by Brittishness and empire. </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scotland lacks agency and that’s not how a modern state functions. People should be active citizens. But can we reform the British state?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Nairn wrote that Scotland was the only county to jump ahead early 1700s, from a backward country to a trading and enlightened one. As a result of Walter Scott’s mythical novels – of a Scotland lost forever – Scottish literature lost its way in the 1800s. Scotland was not part of the rise of nationalism across Europe over the 1800s. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Irish times journalist Fintan O’Toole writes that “Ireland only became truly independent with inter-dependence in Europe.” This may be a hard concept for British unionists to understand, that is the shared, co-operative project trading partnership of the EU.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eap7yaswtN6DoGtU7EPPBJmMXRjg8IISJ5mzVhwn25cpqnjB5heWrw2UnTENOZymw6AUAUPBAVu0ZjBiMtiD31b2nIGvX51kDXf3J5NfKh51GPWJCaALbsyhweG2DvJNvsL258fvfPKhATh20elfMbRcG2Weuwyokxv91kB37BvpFo5TJQFgHrgr9dk4/s4032/IMG_0210.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eap7yaswtN6DoGtU7EPPBJmMXRjg8IISJ5mzVhwn25cpqnjB5heWrw2UnTENOZymw6AUAUPBAVu0ZjBiMtiD31b2nIGvX51kDXf3J5NfKh51GPWJCaALbsyhweG2DvJNvsL258fvfPKhATh20elfMbRcG2Weuwyokxv91kB37BvpFo5TJQFgHrgr9dk4/w300-h400/IMG_0210.jpg" width="300" /></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b></p>II As I left the conference to walk east along George st – the Hanoverian project – the long view is of the ugliest and tallest statue to the tyrant Henry Dundas, behind which is now the ugliest modern statue of the new Edina shopping centre, known as the Turd. Do these e statues and symbols matter?</span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLP7qHI1YurP8IWzj23yCUSJwxP90dw_-CRmQhEC01B_IjoWfWfeO9ljr0MzOB_5_tBmXAz9obWVeTwsoVBkEPulYd3AVhJ9HNfSa5T20m3zdSmUwXF71MtlmbwLVmT23xwpTMfwfJNrePbVs4hCJazRVG1nL_s04nlu1f2gaC1itLguHOrG-zH4NPLUK/s4032/IMG_0213.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaLP7qHI1YurP8IWzj23yCUSJwxP90dw_-CRmQhEC01B_IjoWfWfeO9ljr0MzOB_5_tBmXAz9obWVeTwsoVBkEPulYd3AVhJ9HNfSa5T20m3zdSmUwXF71MtlmbwLVmT23xwpTMfwfJNrePbVs4hCJazRVG1nL_s04nlu1f2gaC1itLguHOrG-zH4NPLUK/w480-h640/IMG_0213.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Henry Dundas statue and the Turd behind</td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Vote for a fairer voting system and for democratic conversations across the UK. In Britain people are not trusted by politicians. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The summer of democracy of 2014.... when reality came close to the dream….! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-72585742627335370072023-11-30T14:56:00.000-08:002023-11-30T14:56:49.896-08:00New Scottish Art Galleries BURNS excluded <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QY9zECbo4_hgNy5alIMZESkaB6SH3rLr3qZLMGZjGzuw-7lNhJatuIcdCb0Oqco12aR3rxIW2bjX4-kl5I4ou3WNjXVl4jMIqGeLVjo5BlynNhjmRWFNBSJpM6JhVqvLz5yaE1fayQQ500m4qPWbT0GjWfKvUuljasOmrRjqja2eyLzQiJXc63aHpTfP/s4032/IMG_0223.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8QY9zECbo4_hgNy5alIMZESkaB6SH3rLr3qZLMGZjGzuw-7lNhJatuIcdCb0Oqco12aR3rxIW2bjX4-kl5I4ou3WNjXVl4jMIqGeLVjo5BlynNhjmRWFNBSJpM6JhVqvLz5yaE1fayQQ500m4qPWbT0GjWfKvUuljasOmrRjqja2eyLzQiJXc63aHpTfP/w300-h400/IMG_0223.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZcxp7U807oJmjpmw41Cob9df58ASXh96ML-pZpCuiHVH2oGi09FJReDvPEIvSO-XpLCqXKj6F2pjLoij7UxRr3vRNuOrGCM2dUFW8gdAkC2O-PBZz2T1e5yuiMAd8sSOkoW1xUNUPH57THSEBicZ3tvMvCJb_gc5r9lrn-0VzbNSPVbaaRmO8e_yfl4m/s4032/IMG_0225.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHZcxp7U807oJmjpmw41Cob9df58ASXh96ML-pZpCuiHVH2oGi09FJReDvPEIvSO-XpLCqXKj6F2pjLoij7UxRr3vRNuOrGCM2dUFW8gdAkC2O-PBZz2T1e5yuiMAd8sSOkoW1xUNUPH57THSEBicZ3tvMvCJb_gc5r9lrn-0VzbNSPVbaaRmO8e_yfl4m/w640-h480/IMG_0225.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Burns and other poets) wrote with Scots voices and language - why is Robert Burns not included here?</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">At a time when mainly English Tory unionist voices were being heard late 1700s. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">No other writer has done more than burns. I was taken back, at the new Scottish galleries that there is only one mention of DB, with regard his The Hunt poem and an Edinburgh tea room painting.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Its wonderful to see the new galleries. I realise Scott lived in Edinburgh, but Burns was there for quite a few months over the late 1786 and into 1787, and he was greatly influenced by his time there – he visited the men’s clubs – the Crochallan Fencibles Anchor close; William Creech’s bookshop and publishing house, at the Luckenbooths near St Giles, where each day the great and the good met; and the literary parties that Burns was invited to, where he met the renowned scholars of the Scottish enlightenment. He also met the great love of his life late 1786, </span><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Agnes McLahose: </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">(his Clarinda) who he wrote many love letters to and his famous song of parting Ae Fond Kiss.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scott may have been read widely in 1800s – but to my mind (and most other Scots) Burns is our national hero and bard. We was painted by his good friend, the artist Alexander Nasmyth – on their walks to Rosslyn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjn4zMQD8Q3Z5lQmgToWfNOr7B3DiKow70Nu4Rms-RojPWad4lYK30-8hmqQo3KF96FEZ1cqwJNb3v6-KI5AqeO8MNTMTacPnuLmyaykrbav9wyUEDAcI3OjO3mU9bSnZCXgl5hDkz_bThI_jJzn1ZqEr6Lh2UEscrdyHVO17l6TteeHGQrfMnzhrvqLaV/s4032/IMG_0218.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjn4zMQD8Q3Z5lQmgToWfNOr7B3DiKow70Nu4Rms-RojPWad4lYK30-8hmqQo3KF96FEZ1cqwJNb3v6-KI5AqeO8MNTMTacPnuLmyaykrbav9wyUEDAcI3OjO3mU9bSnZCXgl5hDkz_bThI_jJzn1ZqEr6Lh2UEscrdyHVO17l6TteeHGQrfMnzhrvqLaV/w400-h300/IMG_0218.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5N_xqmDPPZ-sgmifJzB_haA2ethvXwsChXBLjcAnpJgZSAr-LBd0RXgzkVWlLt-NygGkL4mlzcIgf30qwDR5lzK4C2UvbSFJSWav10bitLV7Uy9XdJabXIkgJEev0-mRCHuU8OGEG7uAnb7m2ScdDEK_8aicVXnlnUqq-8zFhuc8SL0cZk3EeC7pIG9o/s4032/IMG_0235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5N_xqmDPPZ-sgmifJzB_haA2ethvXwsChXBLjcAnpJgZSAr-LBd0RXgzkVWlLt-NygGkL4mlzcIgf30qwDR5lzK4C2UvbSFJSWav10bitLV7Uy9XdJabXIkgJEev0-mRCHuU8OGEG7uAnb7m2ScdDEK_8aicVXnlnUqq-8zFhuc8SL0cZk3EeC7pIG9o/w300-h400/IMG_0235.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmiX4X__AqG9nZRebLxPKWnBeobQ0HqmnqQwn7k2ecq0_OpYuwPwPAU85hIiQtIz_YW089sxpBYlYdew2wVxEchwD9jgmsFJbLNPptDpmoI0IjY2535uo6upiQLJlq1mDN60KhwIZP2pUrh6gpnzhBeudyAvFWh0mTWCAxFpJzksHI_LOsyaOyXFnXnjy/s4032/IMG_0238.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihmiX4X__AqG9nZRebLxPKWnBeobQ0HqmnqQwn7k2ecq0_OpYuwPwPAU85hIiQtIz_YW089sxpBYlYdew2wVxEchwD9jgmsFJbLNPptDpmoI0IjY2535uo6upiQLJlq1mDN60KhwIZP2pUrh6gpnzhBeudyAvFWh0mTWCAxFpJzksHI_LOsyaOyXFnXnjy/w300-h400/IMG_0238.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>As i walked around the Scottish art I thought</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">- which Scotland are we emboldening and remembering here? After the first section covering the romantic period – we enter the brighter more modern period, with the windows open to the east Princes st garden views.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">I felt that the Burns creative legacy was a deliberately forgetting – Question? does his writing influence Scottish art. Burns was himself influenced by art – the symbolism and spiritual connection between the natural world, the creative fires and the established church teachings from his father – where dance was frowned upon. These strong interconnections.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He was influenced by the Ossian poems –by James MacPherson as the first Scot’s bard and also by other great poets. Burns was writing and collecting song before Scott – in fact he met the young 16 year old Scott at an Edinburgh literary party and Scott wrote about Burns after this great meeting.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Burns was influenced by art and the close ties between our emotional life and nature – when he wrote one of the best love songs ever written - "</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear/ And the rocks melt wi’ the sun/ I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run."</span></b><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">It is hard to believe that Burns didn’t influence Scottish art with all the myths, memorabilia, statues and more that surround the great poet. Even so, his songs and poems were not enough to prevent the forgetting that occurred across Scotland over the 1800s. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Today, as Lesley Riddoch writes in her 2023 book Thrive, ‘Scots know of William Wallace and Robert Bruce but nothing in-between up to modern times. Only in the past few decades have Scots recognised other great Scots from the 1980s onwards – with statues to James Clerk Maxwell and Adam Smith.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">* * * * *</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKU5BcT8ZYbwIcuu22DQUiCx0kejln5xVyukxEwhvaU6KNinerDVglXcX0zn1MKEW24B99C4n4AHJdaNuqi6tltzzDF9744pJ-3YF5HVp-rEkPEj9aCt4LCwGt3RF0UkF9qrQKHiI8oyIrSPBk3A0D11pk7usyDuEurn6R_r_XmpFYOgxpzUEFs9WLChR/s1200/_home_customer_www_scottsabbotsford.com_public_html_resource_img_uploads_1623054990_eebc8d627b519bb81573-1200x200.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="1200" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRKU5BcT8ZYbwIcuu22DQUiCx0kejln5xVyukxEwhvaU6KNinerDVglXcX0zn1MKEW24B99C4n4AHJdaNuqi6tltzzDF9744pJ-3YF5HVp-rEkPEj9aCt4LCwGt3RF0UkF9qrQKHiI8oyIrSPBk3A0D11pk7usyDuEurn6R_r_XmpFYOgxpzUEFs9WLChR/w400-h283/_home_customer_www_scottsabbotsford.com_public_html_resource_img_uploads_1623054990_eebc8d627b519bb81573-1200x200.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">novelist Walter Scott</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVzph8v6X-6sFOV2r0Kq0qtczS6Gs6tO70BHDqi3exc65UmA-j1_v665qUXi-FkocU-eq3NmWaoDFH4KR4LAIuP2e2jAfkT23UsaxaLWWnKCcnVHVZjxnaDUICEWG5HzoY-KescZ59ZupKGyZx8vmozMEyR6cCEfvBz1zn0e6ZCC0HVRa5XSaOXfPlTdu/s1200/b25lY21zOjVmNmQxN2E4LTkzMGQtNGI4Zi04NzgyLTZmZTRmMzJlOTI4ODpmMjExOTM4NS00NDM2LTRhYjQtYWQwYy04YzAyYzE4MTFkZmM=.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="876" data-original-width="1200" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVzph8v6X-6sFOV2r0Kq0qtczS6Gs6tO70BHDqi3exc65UmA-j1_v665qUXi-FkocU-eq3NmWaoDFH4KR4LAIuP2e2jAfkT23UsaxaLWWnKCcnVHVZjxnaDUICEWG5HzoY-KescZ59ZupKGyZx8vmozMEyR6cCEfvBz1zn0e6ZCC0HVRa5XSaOXfPlTdu/w400-h293/b25lY21zOjVmNmQxN2E4LTkzMGQtNGI4Zi04NzgyLTZmZTRmMzJlOTI4ODpmMjExOTM4NS00NDM2LTRhYjQtYWQwYy04YzAyYzE4MTFkZmM=.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scots bard Robert Burns</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">II </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The galleries hold 60,000 works of Scottish art – from David Willkie, Alexander Nasmyth, Andrew Geddes, The Glasgow boys impress, particularly James Guthrie, and grand displays of William McTaggarts work.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;">BUT </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Which Scotland – the empty Scotland or militarised? The proud Scotland or the shot stag. Romance or reality; mountain or flood;Ttory or Jacobin?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">At the start of the exhibition there is an emphasis on the influence of Walter Scott’s historical fiction – Waverly and Heart of Midlothian. Scott was the inventor of historical novel. There is the claim “Nobody did more to popularise Scotland than Scott.’ There are photos of the construction of the imposing Scott monument nearby. David Octavious Hill’s pioneering photography, (a photography department at RSA 1857). On display is the painter John Drummond, and David Allan’s’ paintings of everyday life, the Porteous Riots.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">*But I was surprised and saddened no mention of our great bard Robert Burns.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Moving on into the bright lit galleries with windows looking out onto east Princes st gardens displaying more modern art – the Glasgow boys, William McTaggert – The Sailing of the Emigrant ship, who was influenced by Constable 1776 – 1837 and Turner (1775- 1857). The Impressionist and Japanese print influences – of James Guthrie, Arthur Melville, Edward Arthur Waltour.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hgphFXTa1uMe02KJPekGicQEzLbshD9OUc2mn4KorO1bNnfuVbkc99bQ3rW-rNY1bIGfiSgK8MZTcHAhm_HgQlorbQ1iDRdlc4Yjl1QAMaZCl49kOInMO_VVBnEHoJg0nBjRW0-Q_4nRLIlQFj-szd6Csc5SLzxSc1L0j-fxUGBoC6z5LGVE_KmYjXoQ/s4032/IMG_0229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9hgphFXTa1uMe02KJPekGicQEzLbshD9OUc2mn4KorO1bNnfuVbkc99bQ3rW-rNY1bIGfiSgK8MZTcHAhm_HgQlorbQ1iDRdlc4Yjl1QAMaZCl49kOInMO_VVBnEHoJg0nBjRW0-Q_4nRLIlQFj-szd6Csc5SLzxSc1L0j-fxUGBoC6z5LGVE_KmYjXoQ/w400-h300/IMG_0229.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Wwgm677747LWSLF4qQvW6bwDXGaHRhrTeO028uuRyB4QQNcKMPanFDDOoDueaCDvgws7qZZq-upe7084WvBML5K2_J5mY9KKgRzlyqa9SotPVsraYiyOEnoDFiUfWE8GTLCxIRkDM954sD5YJxVkbRYAJxf8idHlR7SgLp8MOfnenbtJsWKeaVFApzq5/s4032/IMG_0230.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Wwgm677747LWSLF4qQvW6bwDXGaHRhrTeO028uuRyB4QQNcKMPanFDDOoDueaCDvgws7qZZq-upe7084WvBML5K2_J5mY9KKgRzlyqa9SotPVsraYiyOEnoDFiUfWE8GTLCxIRkDM954sD5YJxVkbRYAJxf8idHlR7SgLp8MOfnenbtJsWKeaVFApzq5/w480-h640/IMG_0230.jpg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">James Guthrie</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Symbolism and Celtic revival 1890s - the alternative world of dreams, myths and visions. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">With John Peploe, George Leslie Hunter. And good to see several wmen artists – Frances Campbell Cadell, Anne Redpath. Margaret Macdonald,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">There is so much to be impressed with here and both the particular Scottish influence of Scotland soft ever changing light. The weather beaten and mountainous landscapes – the Celtic Ossian, Gaelic poetry, alongside other great Scots scholars and poets 1700s - Dunbar, Allan Ramsay, Robert Fergusson, Robert Burns - who kept Scot’s voices alive.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">And of course Walter Scott’’s historical novels, which were popular worldwide. Political philosopher Tom Nairn criticised Scott - that he told of a ‘romanticised Scotland’ that was gone and lost forever’. This led to Scotland’s literacy voice being lost over the 1800s.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3p4o5U4rQmoXYfddMP4kOpZpVT4a5tL8_46OUBZnJgSo3Y8FhUnuCw1veSnJwO4VqUTvivZN-wUj3AQCCGHHVKDUmel3aKBrWSjMk0kYC3XLL1KJA_Jxi1SJ6GrKpXUDukFUMyl-xwiN-iP51phGBVSf9YS2tRR1VhEg8Iep0qzEnS1LIyMkaBwUmj-us/s4032/IMG_0236.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3p4o5U4rQmoXYfddMP4kOpZpVT4a5tL8_46OUBZnJgSo3Y8FhUnuCw1veSnJwO4VqUTvivZN-wUj3AQCCGHHVKDUmel3aKBrWSjMk0kYC3XLL1KJA_Jxi1SJ6GrKpXUDukFUMyl-xwiN-iP51phGBVSf9YS2tRR1VhEg8Iep0qzEnS1LIyMkaBwUmj-us/w640-h480/IMG_0236.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-27170301671840369612023-11-30T14:55:00.001-08:002023-11-30T14:55:56.368-08:00My Scotia ARTS BLOG from 2007- PKIMAGE musicfootnotes<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpV-dhdgcH1IUYfA6JTUWj_aqmjC9gX5wl-s5C40FZSITZ2mIOFjN0nCgi5f-bmFRk9_JPMO7II3nlEaKwTCSJr9n4RCFAxE8yQ_FqWcPFz8NyR_RCVCzdyjeemyFGLhUKyMaFvRhmoCrvCIKkrgpqrf3nNxNy8YNpFzu_2Iph2wT5qG9eCxtVAtKwvPVr/s640/lauramarlingpk%20(8).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpV-dhdgcH1IUYfA6JTUWj_aqmjC9gX5wl-s5C40FZSITZ2mIOFjN0nCgi5f-bmFRk9_JPMO7II3nlEaKwTCSJr9n4RCFAxE8yQ_FqWcPFz8NyR_RCVCzdyjeemyFGLhUKyMaFvRhmoCrvCIKkrgpqrf3nNxNy8YNpFzu_2Iph2wT5qG9eCxtVAtKwvPVr/w640-h428/lauramarlingpk%20(8).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;">My Scotia ARTS BLOG from 2007 PKIMAGE musicfootnotes - </span><a href="http://www.musicfootnotes.com/" style="color: purple; font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;">http://www.musicfootnotes.com</a> <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;">- which has had over a million hits and interest worldwide.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">*PHOTOGRAPHY - I’ve been pursuing photography since 2008 and have had images published in various media including print media and tv. I cover major arts festival, such as Celtic Connections and Edinburgh book festival. My main interest is portraiture, street photography and music. I was using Canon MKIII, but I’m now using a smaller Sony a7 and enjoy my prime lens and a portrait lens<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">*IMAGINING SCOTIA I’m proud Scotland has leading universities and innovative scientists, I’m proud Scotland has major international festivals and a vibrant successful creative community of artists and musicians. I’m proud Scotland has a wealth of resources – whisky, quality food, and the potential to be a world leader in renewables. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">I grew up in Edinburgh, lived in America ten years and now live north of Glasgow, which I hope gives me unique perspectives. I never realised I should be a Proud Scot though until recently.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>Scotland boasts historic universities - the 4 oldest UK universities. innovations,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>I support self-determination for a socially democratic and greener Scotland.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b>Recent BLOGS - Celtic Connections 2024 announced; Songs Make a Nation, Images Scotia from Enlightenment to Kailyard, Edinburgh festivals 2023, Tom Nairn, To set up Scotland’s very own Media,<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPP22G0TMDToUz1LyjIFne1NfwkQFuigEeKZ0CrcFSsRPxeta4QHuqT3M99I49Dqj-LWx6d5FQAbzNRDJxkYEZmfuWoU5cflGYExbJi2hii6umGJqf1mxj98GzPLQOysgSv3rhv6OYfWmqluEbFCxEru3JV2r65KWmFAhRaeWY8DWRBlp4FrseDGBo3aJd/s700/transatanticsessions.pk%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="700" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPP22G0TMDToUz1LyjIFne1NfwkQFuigEeKZ0CrcFSsRPxeta4QHuqT3M99I49Dqj-LWx6d5FQAbzNRDJxkYEZmfuWoU5cflGYExbJi2hii6umGJqf1mxj98GzPLQOysgSv3rhv6OYfWmqluEbFCxEru3JV2r65KWmFAhRaeWY8DWRBlp4FrseDGBo3aJd/w400-h159/transatanticsessions.pk%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuSDifU0FhbFePMcdSZOujtXxjXCl3UczxehD27hOOy36QUYOBmZ3QrIticbPVp9FbKL4snMtmY-gR9v5Qsiu_2YDpW_-wzehkosK1MqvT2CuVDjKcSfuzmo7jFimI1BHQcAForjNbnFDxZ5FK4hNVR-L93ReBkt_3xONEvASgyyVQSE1iXnAY_pR3nEe9/s960/1900063_624964107540180_919430675_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="960" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuSDifU0FhbFePMcdSZOujtXxjXCl3UczxehD27hOOy36QUYOBmZ3QrIticbPVp9FbKL4snMtmY-gR9v5Qsiu_2YDpW_-wzehkosK1MqvT2CuVDjKcSfuzmo7jFimI1BHQcAForjNbnFDxZ5FK4hNVR-L93ReBkt_3xONEvASgyyVQSE1iXnAY_pR3nEe9/w400-h185/1900063_624964107540180_919430675_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 9pt; text-align: left;"> </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">**PLEASE ADD my new Facebook page – </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">IMAGINING SCOTIA ARTS & MUSIC – <a href="https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552543028198" style="color: purple;">https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552543028198</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">To pursue my interest in Scottish arts, culture and history<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">An online page for my Photos, blogs, events and other ramblings – on all things Scottish – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Hope the LINK works! Pauline <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">My previous SCOTTISH MUSIC & ARTS BLOGS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Had over 800 followers, around 50 photo albums and over 12 years of posts! As I no longer have access to this page due to being hacked, I have set up a new Scottish arts page<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;"><br clear="all" style="break-before: page;" /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-46669072373195429722023-11-30T14:55:00.000-08:002023-11-30T14:55:31.028-08:00SCOTS Booker Prize winners<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy2mPou0pInx2cAelyHDOn-vW8JTG_f6Yzx8fuE-eIgJssTe9dfnHJfTd76flzNOEleb0Y0DyZ-g51c6JqYKqtO0aC5PKSOfJXd6VMlpOHzGsLdOnAaTtlj5WFm0zDOQgnBqPiwWfgVkNzK91oQBT7FRcqQkt0K1T48XvRlTzRvbRTV5KlZf_KOAbG-x0/s2000/Maggie.O%E2%80%99Farrell.pk4.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigy2mPou0pInx2cAelyHDOn-vW8JTG_f6Yzx8fuE-eIgJssTe9dfnHJfTd76flzNOEleb0Y0DyZ-g51c6JqYKqtO0aC5PKSOfJXd6VMlpOHzGsLdOnAaTtlj5WFm0zDOQgnBqPiwWfgVkNzK91oQBT7FRcqQkt0K1T48XvRlTzRvbRTV5KlZf_KOAbG-x0/w266-h400/Maggie.O%E2%80%99Farrell.pk4.jpg" width="266" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Maggie O’Farrell</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjna3kjKWfne5LJG4EsR5NNdHgCbY7eX5gmCdtG1cH2HHRcniGrYC1TSm7biCxBBabwEl35dELBRAlUXc7s_F7XIK2MVwJp0OuB7pKuitDeSDDIA0FSNw6idZr08M9l5RRMAzjpsYa-CN2d8p2dNgcR1afA1bFDJ-SmE00INb_7uo6AJH2YOPrHV4nR7MkV/s640/_MG_3825.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="427" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjna3kjKWfne5LJG4EsR5NNdHgCbY7eX5gmCdtG1cH2HHRcniGrYC1TSm7biCxBBabwEl35dELBRAlUXc7s_F7XIK2MVwJp0OuB7pKuitDeSDDIA0FSNw6idZr08M9l5RRMAzjpsYa-CN2d8p2dNgcR1afA1bFDJ-SmE00INb_7uo6AJH2YOPrHV4nR7MkV/w268-h400/_MG_3825.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Alexander McColl Smith</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Disgracefully as usual in a Time article there is no mention of Scotland’s recent Booker prize winners. The Scottish literary scene boasts several Booker prize winners – 2020 Douglas Stuart’s, Shuggie Bain, 1994 James Kelman’s, How Late It Was, How Late. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Plus Booker shortlisted authors – Ali Smith, Andrew O’Hagan, AL Kennedy, Graham McCrea Burnett, Muriel Spark. World famous Scots novelists of modern times include –Iain Banks, Val McDermid, Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin, Louise Welsh, Liz Lochhead, Alan Bisset, Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina, Alexander McColl Smith, Alasdair Gray, Janice Galloway, William McIlcanney, Maggie O’Farrell, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Famous Scots writers of the past – Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, John Buchan, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Boswell, John Barbour, Adam Smith, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRNznqk4cZRhdwYUGBqwjTy9tT2O_YSIgQZ4nwZqzkoJMBbn7HIQP3zp48qiO41Ya2sfNCL5Yp8qTU5KoBr4ncn09s-cZYHz-iBI06LjBD3WhDH7S2jf2mOC6kAginrISQl7Aqxl64XUa_EVB7raiMltTSwax8fNPnVmZiXiS_JETHgGhRzva58jCCzge/s700/_MG_2571.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="449" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRNznqk4cZRhdwYUGBqwjTy9tT2O_YSIgQZ4nwZqzkoJMBbn7HIQP3zp48qiO41Ya2sfNCL5Yp8qTU5KoBr4ncn09s-cZYHz-iBI06LjBD3WhDH7S2jf2mOC6kAginrISQl7Aqxl64XUa_EVB7raiMltTSwax8fNPnVmZiXiS_JETHgGhRzva58jCCzge/s320/_MG_2571.jpg" width="205" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Irvine Welsh</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDtnD05yBnwRDT1Tsjsqawv0nbZ-ukSdflAm9hV2unnVLCAo-OzrbAVSBlAW_G8x59FwEmSJTOI4XCf11VyUi9ko2u2eOSUqn5Eymn6xPa6Jb3h-7a2V15-o0OyBSUuWu-cGxRAj0exbCBxu_2T2MmvNE1_4sfwT4y8N6EzTX6i7anIV4eAIJZu02p5jgF/s690/_MG_3406.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="460" data-original-width="690" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDtnD05yBnwRDT1Tsjsqawv0nbZ-ukSdflAm9hV2unnVLCAo-OzrbAVSBlAW_G8x59FwEmSJTOI4XCf11VyUi9ko2u2eOSUqn5Eymn6xPa6Jb3h-7a2V15-o0OyBSUuWu-cGxRAj0exbCBxu_2T2MmvNE1_4sfwT4y8N6EzTX6i7anIV4eAIJZu02p5jgF/w400-h266/_MG_3406.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Iain Banks</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2XpZwanUvZqWKqBZLwltfkrvRpxZwoN_xI2P0Tjxq3ocB0dCRx96lx9QdW7XHIbS8qBMEs2d-e01HKCNqquEHvbBE6XFUpeb4nzfdWxp1OyxHL_I6cRSNsJkDEwSE1geAd7odZCPQVNPnJVbeZmjOpoe1QlK2z_-RB12-hQMOC1CIF5AHbdeuyBBiMPnT/s1200/_MG_6116.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2XpZwanUvZqWKqBZLwltfkrvRpxZwoN_xI2P0Tjxq3ocB0dCRx96lx9QdW7XHIbS8qBMEs2d-e01HKCNqquEHvbBE6XFUpeb4nzfdWxp1OyxHL_I6cRSNsJkDEwSE1geAd7odZCPQVNPnJVbeZmjOpoe1QlK2z_-RB12-hQMOC1CIF5AHbdeuyBBiMPnT/w400-h266/_MG_6116.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ian Rankin</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Hackett quotes Irish writer Magee, “The English may be too comfortable to write great novels.” <p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">At least six times in her article she labels ‘Britain/ England’ as one and the same, the England label can never include Scots or the Welsh and we’ll never regard Britain as England as our cultural or historic home, even though so many Scots remain in ignorance of Scotland’s rich histories of which we might be proud. Its time Londoners woke up to this reality. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Our creative stories, arts and music are intrinsic to our shared voices and view of self.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Perhaps creative thinkers either can’t afford or don’t want to be in London. In ‘Britain/ England’ mind-set little exists outside of London. In the 80s London boasted a thriving literary scene around Soho. But today’s London is dominated in its skyline by foreign oligarchs empty high-rises, populist musicals, global chain outlets and over priced art. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Photos copyright Pauline Keightley</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">**BOOKS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Anthology of Scottish stories – Gerard Caruthers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scottish literature, an introduction – Alan Riach.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">The Fair Botanist – Sara Sheridan<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scottish Pastoral: Robert Burns and British Romanticism - <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-73142861139324807952023-10-30T17:24:00.001-07:002023-10-30T18:17:29.532-07:00Has Robert Burns been neglected<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiM-ABEiS3IRj4fljdQQL_AOgtgc2awP6hn65UGiAX0C1qsAuzboOO8Bofq3b3QbW17AUapQZgmJ2ADj449ulgJtaoYBkWriPXff-uM1TiWLsGD2BcmEmjMvptjeRJY3wy2F7SBgx6Uom6Edbd7bqUyxwytIC39_U-n6hABisFeKhXbUR9v7G6-42UfNZ/s1620/Robert-Burns-GQ-20Jan16_getty_b%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1069" data-original-width="1620" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkiM-ABEiS3IRj4fljdQQL_AOgtgc2awP6hn65UGiAX0C1qsAuzboOO8Bofq3b3QbW17AUapQZgmJ2ADj449ulgJtaoYBkWriPXff-uM1TiWLsGD2BcmEmjMvptjeRJY3wy2F7SBgx6Uom6Edbd7bqUyxwytIC39_U-n6hABisFeKhXbUR9v7G6-42UfNZ/w400-h264/Robert-Burns-GQ-20Jan16_getty_b%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">The British establishment and media have neglected Robert Burns work in schools and elsewhere as worthy of study, and honoured Walter Scott instead. But who today reads Scott? It is Burns that people continue to sing and read all over the world. Burns wrote of equality and brotherhood, before these radical ideas were acceptable and in a way no other writer has quite managed to match. He was influence too by Philosophy writers, the radical Tomas Paine and the reformer Thomas Muir of those tumultuous times late1700s. At his Masonic meetings Burns mixed with all walks of life, from dukes, rich land owners, lawyers and famers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;">One of the difficulties with any Burns study is to find the serious real Burns among the memorabilia industry that developed after his death in 1797. As stated by Professor Robert Crawford (The Bard) Burns was never any unionist though and he wrote songs such as – Parcel of Rogues, Liberty Tree, Scots Wa Hae). He did write other poems to try to keep the British establishment off his back and to secure subscribers for his poems. At one point he was scared he was being investigated as a possible radical and reformer. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;">The poet Bob Dylan is a huge admirer of Burns, of his economy, tone, the colour of his words, and of the way he brought the old masters into his own composition. Burns was no ignorant farmer as has been portrayed – he read eagerly many of the great English writers, and a favourite was the English poet Alexander Pope. He also read Scottish philosophers such as Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and Henry Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling.. He knew four languages – French, scots, English and Latin. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">To live in Radical Times<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 20px;">Rodney Forsyth writes that artists such as Shakespeare and Dylan don’t look back and that they are always moving forwards – yet their paths have sure foundations but they are also deeply immersed in what went before. This is also true of our great bard Robert Burns.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">In his article entitle ‘Bob and the Bard’, Forsyth writes of how manic creativity was driven in both Bob Dylan and in Shakespeare, ‘by the intuition they lived in decisive historical junctures.’ But he forgets the poet Robert Burns, and his times were even more radical and tumultuous than any other great artist! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">I have wondered, as do academics, why the world’s best loved poet and song smith, Robert Burns has been neglected by academic literary research. In his time there was first the American Wars of Revolution (1775 – 1783), when Burns was only 15 and five years later the French Revolution in 1789 – 1799. Goodness the British state and Crown must have been running terrified at this time that revolution would happen here! And they were. They sent preachers out to the churches to preach against the French terror. In 1797, the year after Burns died, there was the Irish Rebellion and also the Scots Rebels, who were fighting for votes for all men. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Apple Chancery"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Burns was conflicted between the creative fires of Old Spunkie and the more sober influence of his father and the church teachings.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-47493428400489663812023-10-30T16:25:00.001-07:002023-10-30T16:25:14.899-07:00Break up of Britain Conference<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQfxEiLQZRTZjID9ly1CO_TEBAbjgyfs41sdtGw95dvfY8hBcs4z2xxUzr7CqdPLOMJhQc9H2Llwg6q-mP8z3-i7y6IUuEeWDPOif7dlaMLCJQGE2XjK_Naw6RIkODkLdj46O0BpNwngkNL0o5WmUGrSU8XGIP_k_R_FAHP9RpDCyRJ8uN3pNTUXpYEE/s640/o5s2mpigvepixvh7qqaq.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="640" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpNQfxEiLQZRTZjID9ly1CO_TEBAbjgyfs41sdtGw95dvfY8hBcs4z2xxUzr7CqdPLOMJhQc9H2Llwg6q-mP8z3-i7y6IUuEeWDPOif7dlaMLCJQGE2XjK_Naw6RIkODkLdj46O0BpNwngkNL0o5WmUGrSU8XGIP_k_R_FAHP9RpDCyRJ8uN3pNTUXpYEE/w640-h203/o5s2mpigvepixvh7qqaq.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Confronting the UKs democratic crisis!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 13.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">At the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh on 18th November 2023, we are convening a major event on the future of the United Kingdom, its nations, and the European Union, inspired by the work of Tom Nairn.</span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 13.2pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">One of the speakers, Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, calls the event “incredibly timely and important.” Other speakers include The National columnist Lesley Riddoch, writer Neal Ascherson, journalist Isabel Hilton, Clive Lewis MP, The Scotsman journalist Joyce McMillan, author James Robertson, Professor Richard Wyn Jones, former Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood and Radical Independence Campaign co-founder Jonathon Shafi – with many more speakers soon to be confirmed.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://thebreakupofbritain.net">https://thebreakupofbritain.net</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW82aUtGFXO3MvF-O9xurawC3rS2nJpbqIoCyPdNCVU713pG9ttgOKmlT_GlpE8AXTJgkXZch33Ixf6UPRAM7AGNI04yn1Qbz1kic9eaCrf0iN9lM_LLLs1ngdsk1f9qu9mL5eO4VQ0-YpTIqRpoFUmKg7B2Q5Ju3IKiIgD20HN34Fz49WTJ2HCcIrgD6/s962/untitled%20(77).png.article-962.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="962" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxW82aUtGFXO3MvF-O9xurawC3rS2nJpbqIoCyPdNCVU713pG9ttgOKmlT_GlpE8AXTJgkXZch33Ixf6UPRAM7AGNI04yn1Qbz1kic9eaCrf0iN9lM_LLLs1ngdsk1f9qu9mL5eO4VQ0-YpTIqRpoFUmKg7B2Q5Ju3IKiIgD20HN34Fz49WTJ2HCcIrgD6/s320/untitled%20(77).png.article-962.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakXcvJBgdFIjpdZjJraRQfXOiizW1eiex8BvVPNQN9YRUDAsOxJrlFaDWmbrSu7gLDq0yc6aiLQAA1gmZ0jE3RA2lr9ZbpJB0vePJRfF5Yoato_pEZBTycmKBWk_AbNNnfFPuho47GKqDVCGAe3ByvzhChicn7nGalXPiswAWRvyTZ6U3hCmraJndFxbc/s400/12127651.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="273" data-original-width="400" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakXcvJBgdFIjpdZjJraRQfXOiizW1eiex8BvVPNQN9YRUDAsOxJrlFaDWmbrSu7gLDq0yc6aiLQAA1gmZ0jE3RA2lr9ZbpJB0vePJRfF5Yoato_pEZBTycmKBWk_AbNNnfFPuho47GKqDVCGAe3ByvzhChicn7nGalXPiswAWRvyTZ6U3hCmraJndFxbc/s320/12127651.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">Tom Nairn on why Scotland missed the European national revival 1800s</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Nationalism, Nairn argues is always both \good and bad.' </span></b><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">And originated from that derived in – the impossibility of escape from the uneven development of capitalism.’ Nationalism is not a question of simple identity, but rather of something more – a catalyst.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Scotland’s greatest political theorist of the modern times.</span><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Tom Nairn’s brilliant Break Up of Britain (1977), is one of the best reads on how and why the archaic institutions of the British state and its pre-democracy of the constitution of 1688, before universal suffrage, are failing us.</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: Cambria;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">One of the best books on the British state's constitutional crisis. </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">He writes on why Scottish nationalism is different to the rest of Europe.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">“All I’m arguing for is nations, minus the dratted “ism”; democratic natural, independent, diverse, ordinary, even boring rather than the museum pieces, or dictatorship or hustlers like Blair of Berlusconi.” Tom Nairn,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Free worlds End, opendemocracy, Dec 4</span><sup style="font-family: Arial;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">2004.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Intrinsically there is the dual nature of nationalism, captured in his image of it as a two–faced Janus, the Roman good of doorways, for both past and future, which repudiates concepts of either good or bad nationalism.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;">*TOM Nairn<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">“All I’m arguing for is nations, minus the dratted “ism”; democratic natural, independent, diverse, ordinary, even boring rather than the museum pieces, or dictatorship or hustlers like Blair of Berlusconi.” Tom Nairn, Free worlds End, opendemocracy, Dec 4<sup>th</sup> 2004. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Misfit of the British state to the modern world and not from the express of romantic tartanry, which the author excoriates – and the centrality of nation in political change.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Several commentators name Tom Nairn as one of the most influential Scottish political theorists of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. “The most influential book on British politics to be published in the last half century” </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Anthony Burnett writes in the 2021 Introduction to Nairn’s Break up of Britain. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 24px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 18px;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-27944659862775965572023-10-30T16:03:00.004-07:002023-10-30T16:03:57.184-07:00Our Cultural Capital: Share it out! Bryan Appleyard Times<p><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 9pt;">We must question why London gets by miles the biggest investment – sucking from the rest of the country</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Residents of Country Durham paid £34 m to the Arts lottery since 1995</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">and received 12m in arts funding in return! By contrast the City of Westminster contributed 14.5m and received 408m!</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Shocking! The last figures for private giving were in 2011 and showed that 85% of giving went to London. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Of course every country needs a capital - the problem is in the UK you only have the one main city – by contrast in the US they set up the government in Washington - away from the main city of New York. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">In most European countries there are several main cities. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/arts/article1552767.ece">http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/arts/article1552767.ece</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-34814374072921101952023-10-29T17:43:00.000-07:002023-10-29T17:43:17.985-07:00Romanticism in Scotland <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV4ytfqAxuI1H-RbIYcY9S61fSFWjT_K9V5D7yneG4_prOLjPtNRF5m6bShJNgEOLLsYgaVyHUBxvGU6fYuMQQYZrdoJn8kMo_D7Y6zTu0wG1V8-V_t60C0QfEPeXDBZzvNuSVvQOMzSlfnjlZC1UcOh7BJu3am43KvGz7fV6IPcgr7xhnTnylBvjee5w/s620/robert-burns-portrait-by-alexander-nasmyth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="620" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkV4ytfqAxuI1H-RbIYcY9S61fSFWjT_K9V5D7yneG4_prOLjPtNRF5m6bShJNgEOLLsYgaVyHUBxvGU6fYuMQQYZrdoJn8kMo_D7Y6zTu0wG1V8-V_t60C0QfEPeXDBZzvNuSVvQOMzSlfnjlZC1UcOh7BJu3am43KvGz7fV6IPcgr7xhnTnylBvjee5w/w640-h426/robert-burns-portrait-by-alexander-nasmyth.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p><b style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Nigel Leask rites Burns has been tragically over-looked in academic studies and the need to consider Burns in a de-centralized four nation approach to British culture and of t</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #cccccc; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">he marginalisation of Burns as a major Romantic poet.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The book is entitled 'Scottish Pastoral: Robert Burn and British Romanticism' Leask<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">sets out to recover a major Romantic poet in a Scottish, British, and colonial context. Burns's fame as Scotland's national bard, and his influence on Scottish writers like Hogg, Scott, Elizabeth Hamilton, Lockhart, Wilson and Carlyle, has achieved local recognition. </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">The goal of this book is to reassess the global significance of Scottish and British Romanticism in the light of Burns's achievement and influence. ' And a more historically contextualised notion of the Scottish Enlightenment. And to situate Burns and 18th century Scottish poetry in relation to Enlightenment theories.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">But much light remains to be cast on his literary and intellectual context in the Scottish Enlightenment, as well as his far-reaching influence on English and Irish Romantic writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Roscoe, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Clare, Hazlitt, De Quincey Tom Moore and J.C.Mangan. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">MUSIC - Burns is best known as a songwriter and song collector<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Burns's poetry is now largely excluded from a revised canon of Romantic literature as it is taught in UK and US English departments, despite the fact that the canon has broadened to include women and minority writers. In fact the decline of his reputation as a major Romantic poet has continued measurably even since 1945. Astonishingly, there is to date no dedicated study of Burns's influence on British Romanticism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Contemporary Burns scholarship is still largely concerned with studying the poet in a national literary framework, despite important recent work by Carol McGuirk, Liam McIllvanney, Robert Crawford and Gerry Carruthers, opening up Burns to broader contexts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">Robert Burns </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">was part of an attempt to produce a canon of Scottish song, which resulted in a cross fertilisation of Scottish and continental classical music, with romantic music becoming dominant in Scotland into the 20<sup>th</sup> century. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burns"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Robert Burns</span></a> (1759–96) and Walter Scott (1771–1832) were highly influenced by the Ossian poems. Burns, an Ayrshire poet and lyricist, is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a major influence on the Romantic movement. His poem (and song) "Auld Lang Syne" is often sung at Hogmanay (the last day of the year), and Scots Wha Hae served for a long time as an unofficial national anthem of the country. Burns A Mans a Man as sung by Sheena Wellington at the opening of the Scottish parliament.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Novelist Walter Scott popularised Scottish cultural identity 19th century. He played a major part in defining Scottish and British politics, helping to create a romanticised view of Scotland and the Highlands that changed Scottish national identity. Tom Nairn argues to a false mythical Scotland gone forever. Scott has a highly successful career, with other historical novels - Rob Roy (1817), The Heart of Midlothian (1818) and Ivanhoe (1820) <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Burns was greatly influenced by Scots poets Allan Ramsay, James Macpherson, and Robert Fergusson – who wrote poems in scots about Edinburgh. And English poets such as Alexander Pope. <b>Allan Ramsay(1686–1758</b>) laid the foundations of a reawakening of interest in older Scottish literature, as well as leading the trend for pastoral poetry, developed the Habbie stanza as a poetic form. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">James Macpherson(1736–96) was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published translations that were internationally popular, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics. <i>Fingal</i>, written in 1762, was translated into European languages, and its appreciation of natural beauty and treatment of the ancient legend has been credited more than any single work with bringing about the Romantic movement in European, and in German literature (Johann Herder and Johann Goethe). Also popular in France –read by Napoleon</span><sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;">.</span></sup><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Other major Scottish literary figures connected with Romanticism include the poets James Hogg (1770–1835), Allan Cunningham (1784–1842) and John Galt (1779–1839). One of the most significant figures of the Romantic movement, Lord Bryon, was brought up in Scotland until he acquired his English title. </span></span><span style="color: #1c1c1c;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeIqiYQn43pkiHtXli76iaHceHQe-2H7KAoU40WokxHaedi0bNU4jE0bXMy5pSfEXVPSzd6Hx0sfDdHiYFQNSx1Y1kxwwpKFvBzPmSE__gmWV3slxDSoR2F8ucmzd0raV-O-DRHewpS2FW3vPJahJ7c8-nel2OW_8tB_bPii8R_VN9aZxkSLhSfVebNmp/s1260/Fran%C3%A7ois_G%C3%A9rard_-_Ossian.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="1260" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjeIqiYQn43pkiHtXli76iaHceHQe-2H7KAoU40WokxHaedi0bNU4jE0bXMy5pSfEXVPSzd6Hx0sfDdHiYFQNSx1Y1kxwwpKFvBzPmSE__gmWV3slxDSoR2F8ucmzd0raV-O-DRHewpS2FW3vPJahJ7c8-nel2OW_8tB_bPii8R_VN9aZxkSLhSfVebNmp/w400-h381/Fran%C3%A7ois_G%C3%A9rard_-_Ossian.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">**Romanticism in Scotland</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> II<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement late 1700s and early 1800s. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Part of the wider European romantic movement, which was partly a reaction against the Age of Enlightenment, emphasizing individual, national and emotional responses, moving beyond Renaissance and Classical models. In the arts, Romanticism manifested itself in literature with the mythical bard Ossian, the exploration of national poetry in the work of Robert Burns and in the historical novels of Walter Scott. Scott also had a major impact on the development of a national Scottish drama. Art was heavily influenced by Ossian and of the Highlands as the location of a wild and dramatic landscape. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In music, <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">In art there was a stress on imagination, landscape and a spiritual correspondence with nature. It has been described by Margaret Drabble as "an unending revolt against classical form, conservative morality, authoritarian government, personal insincerity, and human moderation" Although after union 1707 Scotland increasingly adopted English language and cultural norms, its literature developed a distinct national identity and began to enjoy an international reputation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The editors of the recent essay collection Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism argue, from the 19th century Scottish literature came to stand for an 'inauthentic Romanticism, defined by a mystified commitment to history and folklore', in marginal relationship to an 'organic' English Romanticism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Scotland was also the location of two of the most important literary magazines of the era, The Edinburgh Review, (1802) and Blackwood Magazine(1817)which significantly influenced the development of British literature and drama in the era of Romanticism. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Romanticism declined in the 1830s, but it continued to affect music and art. It had a lasting impact on the nature of Scottish identity and outside perceptions of Scotland. It is often thought to incorporate an emotional assertion of the self and of individual experience along with a sense of the infinite, transcendental and sublime. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZ0nLOhzVQKTVz0SWs-tUsf0UqUk_3Xg7el5ZAwQ-k00TYohQnfSiTClo30izuO-C_cVdcrZcZyzKD8TzpMOWAHELVx2ZUw4IEIt8kOHi_XB9AmpwDz_yuX1vgqauCk6kIY0TBIYWN-mwzZ2CkZvdj_gu7GM3d2DaRgl_FmHqiIkRTUvIhClGZ-oPtBoU/s262/james.macpherson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="262" data-original-width="192" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZ0nLOhzVQKTVz0SWs-tUsf0UqUk_3Xg7el5ZAwQ-k00TYohQnfSiTClo30izuO-C_cVdcrZcZyzKD8TzpMOWAHELVx2ZUw4IEIt8kOHi_XB9AmpwDz_yuX1vgqauCk6kIY0TBIYWN-mwzZ2CkZvdj_gu7GM3d2DaRgl_FmHqiIkRTUvIhClGZ-oPtBoU/w293-h400/james.macpherson.jpg" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">James MacPherson</td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Robert Burns and Pastoral is a full-scale reassessment of the writings of Robert Burns (1759-1796), arguably the most original poet writing in the British Isles between Pope and Blake, and the creator of the first modern vernacular style in British poetry. Although still celebrated as Scotland's national poet, Burns has long been marginalised in English literary studies worldwide, due to a mistaken view that his poetry is linguistically incomprehensible and of interest to Scottish readers only. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Nigel Leask challenges this view by interpreting Burns's poetry as an innovative and critical engagement with the experience of rural modernity, namely to the revolutionary transformation of Scottish agriculture and society in the decades between 1760 and 1800, thereby resituating it within the mainstream of the Scottish and European enlightenments. Detailed study of the literary, social, and historical contexts of Burns's poetry explodes the myth of the 'Heaven-taught ploughman', revealing his poetic artfulness and critical acumen as a social observer, as well as his significance as a Romantic precursor. Leask discusses Burns's radical decision to write 'Scots pastoral' (rather than English georgic) poetry in the tradition of Allan Ramsay and Robert Fergusson, focusing on themes of Scottish and British identity, agricultural improvement, poetic self-fashioning, language, politics, religion, patronage, poverty, antiquarianism, and the animal world. The book offers fresh interpretations of all Burns's major poems and some of the songs, the first to do so since Thomas Crawford's landmark study of 1960. It concludes with a new assessment of his importance for British Romanticism and to a 'Four Nations' understanding of Scottish literature and culture.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-33038854616149766412023-10-29T17:42:00.002-07:002023-10-29T17:42:54.114-07:00Union with David Olusoga BBC Review<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUNMn4DpE9laiUdEMQnhahOxomvi8DX-ze-t4zEws54RsA9B5LrT8pREmTJ0AB4txmknTM6oYxWThQncAGpLuWmjkkfAEErt3TwHmb6ye7EueLWfrNqlG_m7BQY4cOCnOrRQi8r5mUqUCaFXYS70yXVypAzqkaSqj98JiU6DULfcXP52Bqz0W7uk1wuMd/s2000/David.Olusoga.pk.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioUNMn4DpE9laiUdEMQnhahOxomvi8DX-ze-t4zEws54RsA9B5LrT8pREmTJ0AB4txmknTM6oYxWThQncAGpLuWmjkkfAEErt3TwHmb6ye7EueLWfrNqlG_m7BQY4cOCnOrRQi8r5mUqUCaFXYS70yXVypAzqkaSqj98JiU6DULfcXP52Bqz0W7uk1wuMd/w266-h400/David.Olusoga.pk.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXHfdsE8PwpJc2eESyYjeiVg81axaK94Gun32OCERFlcR5cnjnNyRRk8sbM2p-4Lggflxc-a-CkXpqBNc9ZTIL39zAgIiDPYIdjAhfpIEYGHC58hwoJDxXDjii4Ytdj01Ob0vGqvLoQZKZHJuxr-YdPkhJr4OOSSOUZdUjr57XfHbDCBtD5n1pLC4aYsb/s700/_90A0423.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="467" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisXHfdsE8PwpJc2eESyYjeiVg81axaK94Gun32OCERFlcR5cnjnNyRRk8sbM2p-4Lggflxc-a-CkXpqBNc9ZTIL39zAgIiDPYIdjAhfpIEYGHC58hwoJDxXDjii4Ytdj01Ob0vGqvLoQZKZHJuxr-YdPkhJr4OOSSOUZdUjr57XfHbDCBtD5n1pLC4aYsb/w266-h400/_90A0423.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">While Olisoga is an informed historian, and consulted many experts and this is a highly watchable if it times biased program.</span></span><span style="color: #121212;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">However he at times skims over relevant sections of the 320 years of the union between Scotland and England 1707 and later of the four nations to form the United Kingdom is 1801.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">For instance he focuses on the hardships in Ireland and of their being bribed to join the United kingdom union in 1801 – but does mot mention the mass murders and of the obliteration of the highland way of life in Scotland after the Jacobite 45, when the clans were disarmed. There is no mention of the Scottish Parcel of Rogues who sold Scotland for bribes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">The only way to be able to wear the kilt was to join the British highland regiments. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoTH8BeNySioF9bzQUbcdW26KOVko5oghCZs3_VIcGKFVJTgms3GkRdzlnNRza5GoZbTmUNZ5TcOrVKH4itZM71fX-GsGaXFQC0IFggPu5E0MegClbFKiRGLKkFqvn8spN_nopweIa56C6VmeCh9glSO4GSJBh9P4LjmsuvE5iz6FaQ203EMU_s4e1617y/s324/actsofunion_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="324" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoTH8BeNySioF9bzQUbcdW26KOVko5oghCZs3_VIcGKFVJTgms3GkRdzlnNRza5GoZbTmUNZ5TcOrVKH4itZM71fX-GsGaXFQC0IFggPu5E0MegClbFKiRGLKkFqvn8spN_nopweIa56C6VmeCh9glSO4GSJBh9P4LjmsuvE5iz6FaQ203EMU_s4e1617y/w400-h316/actsofunion_11.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Union flags designs of James VI</td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">After the JACOBITE 45 rebellion Olusoga states “ the British state, with the help of some clan chiefs, launched a campaign to repress the Scots” –what they really did was mass murder of women and children and the destruction of the highland way of life. the huge contribution Scotland, as the workers of the empire made to the empire is ignored, while England were the rulesr is ignored.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">By the 18<sup>th</sup> century – one in 10 lived in London – which became the centre of Printing, key port, trade artery, parliament, monarchy, finance, banking, theatre, arts and culture. Why is it good that so many had to travel to London to make their fortune?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Then there’s the episode Four on Union and Disunion – which focuses on Wales and Ireland, with only a mention of the closing of Ravenscraig steel work at Motherwell – but no mention of Scotland’s oil which was used by Westminster to increase spending on London. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Olusoga had a chat with A professor from Oxford who stated, ‘There isn’t a long history of power being spread outside the capitol…the starting dates of universities in the north, many are just over a 100 years old. Civic buildings are not that old.” This by implication gives the strong impression that the rest of Britain, outside of London, is backward and uncultured. This is basically untrue. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Scotland boasts 4 of the UKs oldest universities –</span></span><span style="color: #121212;"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 9pt;">Oxford and Cambridge were initially centres of clerical teachings late 1090s: in the 1400s it was Scottish universities which were the four leading centres of learning – St Andrews 1410, Glasgow 1451, Aberdeen 1495, Edinburgh 1583. And it wasn’t until the 1800s that England set up its universities - Manchester 1824, London 1826, Durham 1832.</span></strong><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="dcr-19m3vvb" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;">Olusoga also misses the crucial point that Scotland’s self-determination is about democracy and democratic rights and NOT identity at all. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5440812869422118141.post-18280810170847712942023-10-11T03:36:00.000-07:002023-10-11T03:36:58.669-07:00Celtic Connections 2024 ANNOUNCED!<p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HdHUcFCsurOYQvfNemf73u52wDh9quoZo-x4M3pu4gf8hSF1nD-RM9dJGqC3BbIpogCL9GV6VmASyOthAjqRGv21islQRjTmu8mDLDHVA3p7QFcDed8k4ZjCs7JCf606UhgnoVMyQci7B2s4g2bNrqZwLruPXowfBCi9zFKhxt74NjvONyQIZyoYWZk0/s700/IMG_1215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="335" data-original-width="700" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4HdHUcFCsurOYQvfNemf73u52wDh9quoZo-x4M3pu4gf8hSF1nD-RM9dJGqC3BbIpogCL9GV6VmASyOthAjqRGv21islQRjTmu8mDLDHVA3p7QFcDed8k4ZjCs7JCf606UhgnoVMyQci7B2s4g2bNrqZwLruPXowfBCi9zFKhxt74NjvONyQIZyoYWZk0/w640-h306/IMG_1215.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tim O'Brien</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb7vRwez5thvDAB4G0uK2llj2bEvxRpWSgcPJpS42lhJszJjH-J9ukU8CG_s0eIVx82IMAm6bBVJTTDvqgTfEJlbnj5SkRAjpk53hI7gwzJ3EWP6aHlp-QfEhbfgMKl2pKd6OF3eEmDsOLo1uVJH8RqayM4a7-94FqfmGZ4ZgXPW-x2WrSM_rSI0brPjg/s700/IMG_1219.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="700" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFb7vRwez5thvDAB4G0uK2llj2bEvxRpWSgcPJpS42lhJszJjH-J9ukU8CG_s0eIVx82IMAm6bBVJTTDvqgTfEJlbnj5SkRAjpk53hI7gwzJ3EWP6aHlp-QfEhbfgMKl2pKd6OF3eEmDsOLo1uVJH8RqayM4a7-94FqfmGZ4ZgXPW-x2WrSM_rSI0brPjg/w640-h298/IMG_1219.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eddi Reader</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO0yLbz4pf80czsAUAYdFCwaicwGHgcJXrNi9ImgKr8GpOvxAvzoGQgURAmDRrmdGcjeA9V0IC-byVZizp0xj6t87I3OZ3jcOuZBZAWj8lxgVzJPCo3TfkdxUq1Bnv9Cuc3iuTuXIUJd1NOj-70iUzf5ygEeT6xG7NpgiD5_Y1RUKGDZ2TZDKpFt-SqZ7/s700/IMG_1259.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="314" data-original-width="700" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbO0yLbz4pf80czsAUAYdFCwaicwGHgcJXrNi9ImgKr8GpOvxAvzoGQgURAmDRrmdGcjeA9V0IC-byVZizp0xj6t87I3OZ3jcOuZBZAWj8lxgVzJPCo3TfkdxUq1Bnv9Cuc3iuTuXIUJd1NOj-70iUzf5ygEeT6xG7NpgiD5_Y1RUKGDZ2TZDKpFt-SqZ7/w640-h288/IMG_1259.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">CELTIC CONNECTIONS festival 2024 set for expansive programme of unmissable music! Images copyright Pauline Keightley</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">World-renowned Glasgow festival <b>Celtic Connections returns January 2024 with a full program and many international visitors – to brighten our winter nights!</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Thursday 18 January to Sunday 4 February 2024</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">With one of its biggest-ever capacity festivals Celtic Connections is known as Europe’s premier folk, roots and world music festival, and the home of spectacular musical collaborations. <b>Celtic Connections</b> has continued to expand into a multitude of genres over its 30-year history. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">In 2024 the festival will stage an ambitious genre-defying programme of acoustic, traditional, indie, Americana, Jazz, blues, orchestral, experimental and more. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Glasgow,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">UNESCO City of Music</b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> will host over 300 events across 25 venues</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">over 18 days.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Venues include Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Barrowland, Pavilion Theatre, Barony Hall, Old fruitmarket.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">F</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">rom high-energy rhythms fusing contemporary sounds with traditional music, to intimate and soulful acoustic performances. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Along with the anticipated 110,000 attendees, musicians will descend on Glasgow from Scotland, North America, West Africa, India, Australia, Ukraine, Norway, Sweden, France and Ireland, more!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">General tickets on sale at <b>10am, Wednesday 11<sup>th</sup> October</b> at <a href="https://www.celticconnections.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.celticconnections.com</span></a>. <b>Celtic Connections 2024</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Celtic Connections 2024</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> will take place from <b>Thursday 18th January to Sunday 4th February</b>. General tickets go on sale <b>10am, Wednesday 11th October 2023</b>, with advance tickets on sale now for Celtic Rovers festival supporters. The programme can be viewed in full and tickets purchased at <a href="http://www.celticconnections.com/"><span style="color: #1155cc;">www.celticconnections.com</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5m1wSJgAqP_xEoi_F5Nf4lrZCOhZxh79tk3FDLCre_oI-FUdygnhKdvmEyI5VqSlgs9HJF9gF4iOrkIgkW67W_2y3yZ31wFmSVzWXXzA4Yt21g8nM_B3w7Wkc558IM77VEYYdM4hByxu4cgfL2pv4_2DZG9HW-BtOxDlBLfCJtxRg5JYMfJ_rPUft4fGo/s690/eddireader20thceltic.pk%20(5a).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5m1wSJgAqP_xEoi_F5Nf4lrZCOhZxh79tk3FDLCre_oI-FUdygnhKdvmEyI5VqSlgs9HJF9gF4iOrkIgkW67W_2y3yZ31wFmSVzWXXzA4Yt21g8nM_B3w7Wkc558IM77VEYYdM4hByxu4cgfL2pv4_2DZG9HW-BtOxDlBLfCJtxRg5JYMfJ_rPUft4fGo/w266-h400/eddireader20thceltic.pk%20(5a).jpg" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaKlWMDk_Mb-FU3KH0JvoAJl8FUtUXUeU_uxV8gWAiubluBqzGp9Zy-mpv9xRolGOcrz2f8XiU1uFGCezGjFeDSVHM1b5Rc7aGShqnruSxyITXO8MbyRmwd6fn6rx9uAd7678pYiI2AmIrYAGTU8HLNGDrRDzhCT9IESC4I7KjsXeoARzRmBHeSC_LbpT/s700/eddireader-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="380" data-original-width="700" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoaKlWMDk_Mb-FU3KH0JvoAJl8FUtUXUeU_uxV8gWAiubluBqzGp9Zy-mpv9xRolGOcrz2f8XiU1uFGCezGjFeDSVHM1b5Rc7aGShqnruSxyITXO8MbyRmwd6fn6rx9uAd7678pYiI2AmIrYAGTU8HLNGDrRDzhCT9IESC4I7KjsXeoARzRmBHeSC_LbpT/w400-h217/eddireader-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc8E2S8HR3m8CeS-mGqRzr_LQXFkXu5ySyVAnLjGRSnRec7DQUMeY0__y52XDx6Nel24O4jLvnRjx9I_p4U5oZqo8UZlH2SH4wTbzcLDNVdanZNN9oOH10alXq_RCNjVOvpVBEyC3DMRzT8I6Sm1GzaWfyj9Xre4AKDuSrO5SqYSEacgo0vcNGwyASeyNV/s700/finale-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="700" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc8E2S8HR3m8CeS-mGqRzr_LQXFkXu5ySyVAnLjGRSnRec7DQUMeY0__y52XDx6Nel24O4jLvnRjx9I_p4U5oZqo8UZlH2SH4wTbzcLDNVdanZNN9oOH10alXq_RCNjVOvpVBEyC3DMRzT8I6Sm1GzaWfyj9Xre4AKDuSrO5SqYSEacgo0vcNGwyASeyNV/w400-h214/finale-openingconcert.pk%20(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Images copyright Pauline Keightley</span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Highlights include:-</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Celtic Connections Opening Concert</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall stages the European premiere <b>ATTENTION! </b>New symphonic work from American Grammy winner <b>Chris Thile -</b> “the best mandolin player in the world” - with the <b>BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;"> </span></span></span><span style="background-color: black; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">100 years on since the death of Scottish iconic revolutionary socialist </span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">John MacLean, </span></span>a centenary concert to recognise the significance of the Red Clydeside era – with music, poetry on his legacy, will be led by <b>Karine Polwart</b>, <b>Eddi Reader</b>, <b>Billy Bragg </b>and <b>Siobhan Miller</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Scotland burgeoning traditional music scene is celebrated with <b>Dallahan, RANT, Breabach, Mec Lir, Heisk, Session A9 </b>and<b> The Canny Band </b>alongside emerging artists like <b>Beth Malcolm, TRIP, Lauren Collier, Tarran </b>and<b> Amy Laurenson</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Another special international collaboration <b>Citadels of the Sun</b>, in tandem with Jodhpur Rajasthan International Folk Festival, Irish and Rajasthani musicians come together Barony Hall to share common themes that connect the two cultures. The show will feature <b>Martin Coyle, Paul Cutliffe, Sarah E Cullen, Asin Khan Langa </b>and<b> Sawai Khan Manganiyar</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">A wealth of transatlantic talent at the 2024 festival includes country royalty with <b>Carlene Carter </b>(daughter of June Carter Cash), 15-time Grammy Award winner and banjo virtuoso <b>Béla Fleck, </b>beloved singer-songwriter <b>Bruce Hornsby, </b>and<b> </b>festival favourites<b> Sarah Jarosz, Teddy Thompson, The Milk Carton Kids, Tommy Emmanuel, Darlingside </b>and bluegrass star<b> Tim O’Brien</b>,who with his seminal album <i>The Crossing</i>.</span></span><b style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">50th anniversary of the <b>Scottish Chamber Orchestra</b> , with unique arrangements and guest performances from Scotland’s <b>Paul Buchanan</b> (The Blue Nile), American singer <b>Aoife O’Donovan</b>, visionary folk band <b>Lau </b>and harpist <b>Maeve Gilchrist</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Beloved Scottish singer-songwriter<b> Dougie MacLean </b>will mark five decades of extraordinary music making with a special show entitled <b>Songmaker 2024 - Celebrating 50 Years of Music</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Roddy Hart’s <b>Roaming Roots Revue</b> 12th year, <b>Songs of Modern Scotland.</b> modern classics along with the <b>Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Symphony Orchestra</b>, and Scottish talent Biffy Clyro’s <b>Simon Neil</b>, Idlewild’s <b>Roddy Woomble</b> and<b> Rod Jones</b>, Del Amitri’s<b> Justin Currie</b>, Camera Obscura’s <b>Tracyanne Campbell</b>, <b>King Creosote</b>, and more<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Contemporary Scottish Celtic outfits with <b>RURA</b> and <b>Talisk</b> iconic Barrowlands; <b>Skerryvore </b>expansive sound, UK top 40 album <i>Tempus</i>; <b>Skipinnish </b>celebrate 25 years, renowned folk groups<b> Blazin’ Fiddles </b>celebrate 25th years, <b>Kinnaris Quintet</b> headline show Old Fruitmarket with <b>Julie Fowlis </b>and <b>Karine Polwart</b>, and Skye’s <b>Valtos </b>celebrate Gaelic song SWG3</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">●</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Showcase Scotland</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;"> - a part of the festival which facilitates international collaboration - will this year partner with the country of <b>Norway </b>to showcase Scandinavian talent, while other festival favourites including <b>Transatlantic Sessions</b> will return<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Festival-goers can also look forward to the usual mix of screenings, workshops, dementia-friendly concerts, late night sessions and pop-up performances at the Festival Club, as well as a thriving education programme that will benefit thousands of children across Glasgow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGXHTmPKlomf03H-eSNngQYimONlMTLFzav-iZaeyH0w6Dm-pSNa6-I95wkbXDaYK27m095nwxtg99cfC5dugKXq_tFmwC7CtnlKep_eJDH_71JVkU1hnCy6Yml3e7ROVSvYrxLmBklD2obCfPyB4JEx4BoAbJ6qjdilPQTNSV2wNqMQK8IiV_9fp7_-F/s700/_MG_1335.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="371" data-original-width="700" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvGXHTmPKlomf03H-eSNngQYimONlMTLFzav-iZaeyH0w6Dm-pSNa6-I95wkbXDaYK27m095nwxtg99cfC5dugKXq_tFmwC7CtnlKep_eJDH_71JVkU1hnCy6Yml3e7ROVSvYrxLmBklD2obCfPyB4JEx4BoAbJ6qjdilPQTNSV2wNqMQK8IiV_9fp7_-F/w640-h340/_MG_1335.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Donald Shaw, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker, Tim O'Brien, John Doyle- Late Sessions</td></tr></tbody></table></b><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Donald Shaw, Creative Producer for Celtic Connections, said</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">: “It’s that time of year where we lift the lid on the incredible shows and events we have in the works for Celtic Connections. Celebration and collaboration are at the heart of the festival and once again we will bring the world’s music to Glasgow audiences this winter. I’m very excited that our 2024 edition will welcome a huge portion of international talent back to our stages, particularly our transatlantic cousins in America, and that we will be back to staging one of our biggest ever capacity festivals. We would encourage audiences old and new with a love of music to discover all that this diverse programme has to offer and spend the dark winter nights with us.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Creative Scotland</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt; text-indent: -18pt;"> <b>Head of Music</b>, <b>Alan Morrison</b> said: “The 2024 Celtic Connections programme puts Scotland at the heart of a musical map of the world. This is arguably the festival’s strongest-ever international line-up, opening our ears to the inspirational sounds of artists from so many different countries and cultures. Running through it all, of course, is Scotland’s own musical lifeblood, the traditional tunes and contemporary twists that continue to thrill audiences and brighten up our winter days and nights.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">Culture Secretary Angus Robertson said: </span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 9pt;">“I’m greatly looking forward to this year’s Celtic Connections and the warmth it always brings to the colder months with leading Scottish and international musicians across a variety of genres set to descend on Glasgow for what looks to be another fantastic showcase of talent. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria; line-height: 16.5pt; margin: 10pt 0cm 10pt 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com