Found this at the Mudcat Cafe Forum::
Think anyone can do something with this?
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Subject: Toronto cancer centre seeks minstrels
From: GUEST,Marion
Date: 30 Jan 03 - 04:09 PM
I found this announcement in a newsgroup:
Cynthia Cathcart wrote:
I'm in a rather unique position with respect to the question of
authenticity and history: I play the wire-strung clarsach, whose
tradition was absolutely broken in the late 1800's, to lie extinct until
the 1950's. So I have little choice but to look to history,
Toby wrote (re Shine)
Do they have an album? I have to hear this stuff!
They do indeed. It's called Sugarcane and you can get it from
www.musicscotland.com Their website is at www.shine3.com
Cynthia asked about harps taking the lead in bands: Phamie Gow was one
harpist who led her own
Dave Gibb, Kelso Folk Club's guest artist for Valentine's Night, is part
of the big tradition of Scottish songwriters who can alternate humour,
nostalgia and hard-hitting lines while still picking a mean guitar.
Dave hails from the wild reaches beyond the source of the Tweed (where
Robin Laing
I was told today that Tam Reid died last week - went out to see to his
sheep in a blizzard; his wife found him dying in the snow a few hours
later, and the weather stopped the emergency services getting through
fast enough to help. Apparently there were something about it in the
Aberdeen Press
Interesting that Scott Joplin comes up at this time. I'm taking a
course on the History of Jazz, and we just listened to what is probably
the same recording. It's a scratchy 78 RPM recording of Maple Leaf Rag
from a player piano playing a roll recorded by Joplin.
I actually heard it before
On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 13:08, Cynthia Cathcart wrote:
Agreed. I played harpsichord in a chamber orchestra when I was in college,
and we had inflamed debates over how Mozart would have played his music! If
we can't find ready agreement on the inflection and accent of Mozart, how
can we hope
