David Kilpatrick wrote:
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> FOR: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
> Also circulated to private and e-list addresses by email.
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> Next year, 2002, is the Bicentenary of the publication of Walter Scott's
> 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border', printed in Kelso by Ballantyne.
> This is an opportunity not only for Kelso, but the entire Borders region.
>
> Our Minstrelsy Bicentenary Year offers the chance to celebrate not only
> the subjects of the ballads - places, ancestors, events, and stories -
> but the collectors such as Leyden, Hogg and less famous names like
> Shortreed of Jedburgh. We really can't let down our beleaguered Scottish
> Borders tourist industry, our visitors attractions and currently
> all-too-empty 'beds' by letting such a chance be missed.
>
> Since nothing has already been done by any of the regional authorities
> to capitalise on this bicentenary, a voluntary group is forming to get
> things moving. I have alerted the Scottish Borders Tourist Board,
> Scottish Enterprise Borders and the Borders Regional Council with a
> brief memo, and hope that this is now in the forefront of their minds
> for 2002.
>
> Outgoing Scottish Borders writer in residence Tom Bryan has agreed to
> join a proposed committee. So has Kelso writer and playwright Lis Lee,
> and Kelso Graphics printworks director Clive Dibbern. Borders
> storyteller and 'Guid Craik Club' organiser John Hamilton has already
> expressed his support and enthusiasm.
>
> One objective would be to publish a 'New Minstrelsy' reflecting 200
> years of tradition and innovation in Border verse since Scott's day
> drawn from published works and new material.
>
> There are many other possible objectives involving traditional and
> contemporary music, illustrative and fine art, drama, readings, talks,
> walks and trails, workshops and far more for which funding and support
> must be gained now if 2002 will be turned into a year to make up for the
> foot-and-mouth led disaster of 2001.
>
> We intend to hold a meeting to from a committee, and make contact with
> anyone who can be of help. Those who are interested should contact me on
> Kelso (01573) 226032 or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> David Kilpatrick
> Maxwell Place
> Kelso TD5 7BB
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Can I try again to do that 5 verse version of "John Anderson, my Jo"
from 'Philomel', 1744, that I sang last Friday night? That verse where
the reciter of the traditional text in 'Philomel', forgot the 3rd and
4th lines of one verse and just repeated the 1st and 2nd, sort of threw
me, and I lost track of where I was on the tune. It's really a
delightful very old Scots ballad on a rare theme - marital bliss, no
blood or booze.
Bruce Olson
Old British Isles: popular and folk songs, tunes, and broadside
ballads at my website (no advs-spam, etc)-www.erols.com/olsonw or
just <A href="http://www.erols.com/olsonw";> Click </a>
My Motto: Keep it up; muddling through always works. Learn from
the Master by watching carefully with mouth shut; his know how
isn't in his language processor, so don't distract him with
foolish questions he can't answer. Other methods of education
don't work at all well.
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