> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf > Of Toby Rider > Sent: 09 July 2003 19:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [scots-l] The Living Tradition magazine.. > > Wow good to hear from you Ted.. I thought everyone > else on this list > was either asleep or dead :-) > There was a really good article this month on the > digitizing of that > huge collection of field recordings of traditional > Scottish songs.. > That's excellent! So has there generally been more > interest in trad. > music in Scotland lately?
I would say that interest is pretty strong. The Celtic Connections festival in January is absolutely enormous. I was fortunate enough to attend Alisdair Fraser's Fiddle School during it this year. Events like Edinburgh Fiddle Festival and Blazin' in Beauly are also continuing to expand, as are organiations like the Glasgow Fiddle workshop. > I have some other good friends in Scotland who are > my age (early 30's) > however they're mostly interested in Oasis, Blur, The > Stokes and > Coldplay, and drinking bottles of Buckfast :-) So > they're not really > aware of the trad. music scene there.. > Well, I'm a bit older (early fifties) and I'm now semi-retired and spending most of my time in Spain, but I'm still back in Scotland pretty regularly and I try to attend as many traditional music events as I can. Regards, Ted > > > 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
