De-lurk and tell about Keith Festival? Where would I begin? I had such a good time I could not possibly cover it here. Lets see - highlights were: the sounds of Marie-Louise Napier's clarsach floating around Reidhaven Square on Sunday afternoon; Geordie Murison singing "Drumdelgie nae mair", a wonderful, moving song about the decline of the great farm toun (the lyrics are from a poem by the late great Doric poet, Ian Middleton); The Sangsters singing "Ca' the Yowes" and the brilliant "Dyker's compliments"; the hugely popular Chorus Quaich competition taking the roof off the Plough; Alex Green being just as raunchy and inspired as ever; Jim Reid leading the whole audience singing his Wild Geese; Pete Shepheard, Arthur Watson and Tam Spiers singing "Tatties and Herring" in amazingly masculine harmony; Gordon Pattullo (almost) changing my mind about the accordion by playing "Furrow's End" and "The Flying Scotsman"; and hours of competitions full of young and extremely enthusiastic people - I could go on for ages but won't. As for me, I have been around traditional Scottish and Irish music all my life. I was taken to sessions and my dad's folk group rehearsals in the carry cot and knew many more songs at the age of three than I do now. I took the usual adolescent route of contempt for the music and only started returning to it when I heard the Pogues, the Oyster Band and Edward II at the age of about 20 and realised I knew half the songs I was hearing already. Still, it took me 15 years to do anything about it. Last year I joined ALP in Edinburgh to learn pennywhistle from a certain Mr Gatherer, which I enjoy immensely. I also sing a bit and am learning and re-learning as many songs as I can. I have had access to the internet for about a year and in that time I have realised what a lot there is to learn about traditional music. That is why I lurk - because I don't have anything like the knowledge of people on this list! But I have already learned a lot and will continue to lurk and learn. But if anyone wants to know anything about Keith Festival... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Gatherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 12:11 PM Subject: [scots-l] Is there anybody there? (was: Dumbarton's drum) > John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Flowers, Ross (MTO) writes: > > > | Aha! I see it - just before > > [Snip] > > Not fair, John, to attribute my genius to that plagiarist Flowers. So > my parents used to lock me in the cellar with nothing to read but old > Rupert the Bear annuals, resulting in an occasional uncontrollable urge > to spout rhyming couplets. That's no reason to strip me of the glory > that is justly mine and mine alone. > > Silly Season approaching, I guess. Who is there and who isn't? Is Erica > still lurking? > > OK, lurkers, your time has come. All you folks who have never (or > rarely) contribute to the list, speak now. Introduce yourselves, tell > us something about yourselves. Where are you? What is your interest in > Scots music? > > Tracy, tell us about the Keith festival. David K, what are your plans > for the Scottfest? Ross, how long have you been playing? Eric, is Bob > still fiddling? Kate, how is David's career going? Gaye, did you ever > play music with Jim Tweedie? Philip, are you from the Kelso area > originally? Dan, d'you play Scots music on the mandolin? Bruce, Sue, > Tom, Rita, Charlie, Janice, Jack, John C, Keith...come on guys, let's > have a party. > > -- > Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
