The local fiddle club had their Burns Night celebration on Sunday but as I
had other commitments I missed it; I understand it was a great time. My
dance group performed a show for a local community group who had a vague
awareness of Robert Burns and thought it would be a nice idea to have some
Scottish entertainment at their monthly meeting. We did our usual show
which combines Highland, Ladies' Step and country dancing, and I fiddled
(solo) for several dances in addition to participating in about 5 others (we
used recorded music for most of the show); at least this time the dances for
which I fiddled were all back to back, which made remembering what came next
much easier than in our last performance which had me alternating between
fiddling and dancing! We had some audience participation dances prepared
but skipped them since it looked like the group wasn't very inclined to
dance! No pipers, scotch or haggis to be seen, but it was still a fun show;
they evidently liked us because they immediately invited us to come back
again next year! -Steve
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
> Once again I was in Killiecrankie witnessing a very fine Burns Night
> while being part of the entertainment. My trio sang and played some of
> our favourites ("Anna" is my love of the moment) and enjoyed Ron
> Greer's "Tam o' Shanter", and basked in the friendly glow of a
> community event. Once all that was done my guitarist and I were asked
> to play for some dancing, which I was not prepared for. Help! The
> mandolin was no use (we were playing acoustically), so I was glad I had
> my penny whistle with me. I hastily scribbled down a few sets with keys
> so that the guitarist could busk along, and set about blasting the hall
> with sets suitable for The Gay Gordons, Dashing White Sergeant, Strip
> the Willow and waltzes. Man, it was braw, wi' nae a fiddle in sicht!
>
> Any other braw nichts oot there?
--
Steve Wyrick -- Concord, California
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