[scots-l] Derek Bell...bad news

[Cynthia Cathcart]

I just found out that Derek Bell of the Chieftains has died. Here's the link:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp?j=51525292&p=5y5z5998
Apparently he died of complications from minor surgery? Does anyone know any more? (Fervently hoping that this is not really true.)

Quite a blow to the historical harp world. He was first person I ever heard play a wire-strung harp.

--Cynthia Cathcart
http://www.cynthiacathcart.net/

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