RE: [scots-l] Re: Johnny Cunningham
46? That I did NOT want to hear! Jonathan Hill Johnny Cunningham was 46 (my age - gulp). -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland Friday-Monday: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tuesday-Thursday: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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
[scots-l] Munlochy Session
Judith at the Munlochy Hotel is hosting a session 3rd Sunday night every month. Next one is Sunday 17th, if youre in the Inverness area its over the Kessock Bridge and second (or 3rd if you miss it) on the right. 8.30 on, love to see you(se). Jonathan Hill Cromarty
RE: [scots-l] He hirpl'd
..would that be till in the Caithness sense, i.e. towards? Jonathan Hill Wellington House Church St., Cromarty Ross-Shire IV11 8XA United Kingdom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 July 2003 22:50 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] He hirpl'd I found this tune in Bremner's Scots Reels and wondered about the title. 'Hirpl'd', I understand, means 'hobbled', but He hobbled till her makes little more sense to me than the original. Any ideas of what is meant? Also, the tune below it on Bremner's page is called Had the Lass till I winn at her. Am I correct in assuming this is some sort of sexual assault? Regards, Andrew Kuntz X:1 T:He hirpl'd till her M:C| L:1/8 R:Reel S:Bremner - Scots Reels (1757) Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion K:A Mix f | eaca ecAc | dfec B/B/B Bf | eaca ecAc | dfec A/A/A A :: e | cAec fdec | dfca B/B/B Be | cA (ef/^g/) afec | dfec A/A/A A :|
RE: [scots-l] Obscure Folk Groups
Can't help on those, but add the Norlanders from Thurso area who recorded an EP on Grampian in '66. Jonathan Hill Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Jesse Rae
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage gear? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Jesse Rae
Fusion? That reminds me, whatever happened to Jesse Rae? ( For the benefit of younger lurkers, think of a cross between Wham and Groundskeeper Willie!) If he's Left the Building can I have his stage gear? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?)
There was a moothie based band on the Black Isle who rejoiced in the name of the Avoch Moothies, but age and the reaper have taken their toll...no recordings, but they were pretty good! Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toby Rider Sent: 06 October 2002 04:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?) Jack Campin wrote: ...does anyone have anyone good recommendations of recordings of Scottish mouthie players? Donald Black is a contemporary player with at least a couple of CDs. There isn't a great deal else available. So who are the Scots moothie players? [Donald Davidson, Willie Fraser, Davy Marshall] Who else would make this list? Bryce Johnstone (recording c.2000 titled Combine). And Tommy Basker from Cape Breton, if his CD (The Tin Sandwich) is still available. Yes, I have Tommy Basker's recording.. It's interesting :-) I'm trying to hear some mainland Scottish guys, for a different take on the tunes, not because I'm going to learn to play the mouthie, but because it amazes me that guys actually play this type of music on mouthies.. 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
RE: [scots-l] Record Finds
Call that work? :0) What songs are on the Dundee album, I know it not! My best recent find was 'Folksong Jubilee' by Rory Alex McEwen Isla Cameron from 1958. No unusual songs, but pretty good nonetheless. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nigel Gatherer Sent: 17 April 2002 19:58 To: Scots-L Posting Subject: [scots-l] Record Finds I found some treasures in a second-hand shop today: The Silver Bow (Tom Anderson, Aly Bain) I used to have this years ago, and I'm glad to have found it again. Shetland Fiddle Music (from The School of Scottish Studies) Classic recordings of Bobby Jamieson, Andrew Polson, Gibbie Gray, Willie Hunter Senior, etc. Pipe Major Donald Macleod - The New York Recordings 1967 A double album of MacLeod (who was discussed here recently) playing selections from his published collections. There are many trad tunes here, but also a lot of Macleod's own compositions which are still loved by musicians: The Man from Skye, Dr Ross's 50th Welcome..., The Seagull, The Hen's March, etc. The sleeve notes are reverential, so no hint of the controversy which Kate alluded to. The Harp Key (Alison Kinnaird) Another LP I used to own, and which I can enjoy once again. Coorse and Fine: Songs and Ballads of Dundee This, to me, is the floo'er abune them a'. I was given a complimentary copy of this LP when it was released in 1985 to coincide with my book Songs and Ballads of Dundee. Very soon afterwards someone pressed me to sell my copy to them. I agreed, thinking I'd buy another copy; I never did, and regretted it. Finding it today was such a thrill, and I'm happy that it's in my collection once again. The late Annie Watkins, whom I visited in Dundee, sings four songs, while the wonderful Maureen Jelks holds her own. Oh! Memories! Add a couple of Corries albums and one Jimmy Shand and I reckon I got not a bad haul for a day's work. -- 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
[scots-l] Stuart Adamson
Small country loses Big man. Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Corries Help
D'oh! Thanks! Jonathan -Original Message- From: Jonathan Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2001 19:21 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] Corries Help Does anyone have or know the location of a discography for the Corries? Jonathan 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
[scots-l] Corries Help
Does anyone have or know the location of a discography for the Corries? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses
Well, looking at somewhere like Costa's in Inverness, they have a perfect upstairs room for that sort of thing, but they close about 6 as far as I know. Frothy coffee, ah, the joys! As for pubs, Blackfriars and the Clachnaharry ( Tue., Thu., quality variable) have sessions as does Stevie Eaglesham's new place in Evanton (Thu., good by all acoounts). Jonathan -Original Message- From: David Kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 August 2001 22:56 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses Jonathan Hill wrote: Jacks story reminds me of the dude who went into the Phoenix in Inverness about 5 years ago, checked out the menu, went off held up the Britannia BS, came back ordered his grub, guess what? He got collared too! Drifting reluctantly back on-topic...why do coffee houses close at half-five or six? If you don't drink, have kids/teenagers/aunties in tow what fate awaits you in our towns. And have you ever tried to fire up a tune in McDeadcows? Eeeesht! I used to trawl the acoustic guitar NG they were always banging on about coffee house gigs, house concerts such if my memory play me not false. David? That story was mine in reply to Jack (who probably has better ones about the dark depths of Dalkeith). We arrived in Inverness one day around 5.00pm and found absolutely nothing about to happen, and just kept driving till we reached Dunkeld where Dougie's pub was, of course, doing fiddles and not songs that night... my luck. One reason the coffee houses don't open late is that they rely on tourist coaches for business and those are daytime visits; the evening stops are for restaurant meals or their overnight stay. We have a new little craft shop-cum-restaurant opened just 50 yards from me in Kelso, right next to the main car park, and Christine who runs it is stocking my CDs (even playing them). We've been a bit busy to try any music there yet, but early in November I'm booked for three nights in a row to do an hour of after-dinner quiet guitar and songs (got to learn some jazz, not easy but she's French and likes the cafe-jazz guitar sort of style more than the celtic fingerstyle). This is a case of a cafe first opening days only, then getting full catering, then getting a licence to serve wine with meals, then deciding to open evenings from Thursday to Sunday and taking business away from the pubs. Anyone who has Scottish (or indeed French - musette etc) recordings of their own they would like to get on sale or return could get them into this cafe. Called the Knowes Around (she's French, right - did not know how to pronounce Knowes!). Borders Book in Edinburgh does have a cafe open until 10.00pm most nights. I've done one Sunday afternoon lazy music' spot a week ago, with Elspeth Smellie (harp and songs) since they pay double for a duo. We're now booked to do two return visits on Friday evenings and I've got one Sunday (Oct 21st) booked solo and could do with a 'partner' to share this with. Although this is supposed to be a coffee house 'gig', it isn't. They put you right in the middle of the bookstore, with the cafe looking down from a balcony, with fairly powerful amplification. You are right there in the very centre of the aisles and books and CDs. People were generally very receptive, listened, applauded, didn't buy any CDs but told the management they liked the music which is why we've been asked back. But if more musicians/singers were offering I'm sure we would not be going back, they would be fully booked ahead (it is paid, just below MU rates, you get £60 for a 75-minute Friday evening slot or £80 for a 2 hour Sunday afternoon slot with maybe 20 minutes break, assuming a duo - half that for solo acts trying to do the entire slot alone). David 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
RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi' the Rechabite Lasses
Jacks story reminds me of the dude who went into the Phoenix in Inverness about 5 years ago, checked out the menu, went off held up the Britannia BS, came back ordered his grub, guess what? He got collared too! Drifting reluctantly back on-topic...why do coffee houses close at half-five or six? If you don't drink, have kids/teenagers/aunties in tow what fate awaits you in our towns. And have you ever tried to fire up a tune in McDeadcows? Eeeesht! I used to trawl the acoustic guitar NG they were always banging on about coffee house gigs, house concerts such if my memory play me not false. David? Jonathan -Original Message- From: David Kilpatrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 19 August 2001 13:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses Jack Campin wrote: C'mon, even Kelso has a coffee bar, and there's been an explosion of them in Edinburgh in recent years (*how* many Starbucks do we have now?). But they're a lot less likely to want to host traditional music than a pub is. Kelso has several (at least five). It has a Christian coffee bar, which was the subject of a real wild west hold up recently when a kid with a replica gun held the entire staff and customers up, got them to empty their pockets, cleared the till, took their watches and jewellery - and got nicked, of course, since he was known to everybody there. However, there is a catch: they all close at 5.30pm and don't open on Sundays, etc, in best local fashion. It's quite possible that if there was an EVENING coffee bar there would be fewer drunk 14 year olds blocking the path across the kirkyard. David 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
RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses
Hi Toby! Yes, I can imagine! How about if the music were less accessible? My idiosyncratic sense of timing might help? Anyway, these weeks of sitting by the phone Saturdays have paid off...got a gig tonight (pub, natch!) Jonathan (PS, I take it you mean 'pissed' as in irritated rather than irrigated?) God, I love finishing statements with a question mark, eh? -Original Message- From: Toby Rider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 August 2001 16:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses Jonathan Hill wrote: Now IF we had Coffee Shops non-alcohol-dominated venues social sites like towns in the US Canada things might be different. They would go broke for a start; Central Perk could not exist on the proceeds of one or two AA meetings a week (to be continued..) Jonathan Yeah, but people get pissed when you play in coffee shops. At least out here in Southern California they do. It's disturbs them from pretending that they are intellectual :-) 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
RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses
folk club space is taken up by people with guitars doing tedious Nashville-type singer-songwriter stuff, which I find so brainfreezingly dull my fingers don't work right any more after listening to a few numbers of it. Shheeesht, you want to try O'Byrnes in Edmonton on Folk Night. I reckon the Mounties spend a fair whack of their shift talking female folksingers down off that high bridge! A couple of teenagers from Fort William set off one day to try to find Cromarty because they'd heard it was a place where rollerbladers didn't get their heads kicked inmaybe we should similarly be walking the earth like Kane to find the place where sessions can be free Jonathan -Original Message- From: Jack Campin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 August 2001 17:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses Fact is, people down the pub want the tube on most of the time; they're spending, they're in charge. If we bring in the punters, good enough, but the last thing the guv'nor wants is a bunch of thirsty neds going down the road to watch highlights of Duffus .v. Kilmacolm on Murdovision 'cos they don't give a hoot whether Jock 'O Hazeldean gets the girl or no'. Most pubs have more than one room. Our local folk club and most of the Midlothian sessions meet in the smaller rooms of local pubs; so do some in Edinburgh. It works okay. Sandy Bell's and some other places have the odd compromise of sports TV with the sound off during sessions. It's disconcerting to suddenly have the whole pub cheering and punching the air as you finish a tune. And you get the darnedest requests - somebody tell me why anybody would want Red River Valley after Celtic have just done well? I find the toughest sport to play along with, if you're facing the screen, is weightlifting; you're trying to follow some not-quite-obvious tune as the guy heaves that bar up and up (grunt! grunt!) and is he going to make it? (GRUNT)... oh shit I'm still playing in A... good exercise in breath control, though. Now IF we had Coffee Shops non-alcohol-dominated venues social sites like towns in the US Canada things might be different. C'mon, even Kelso has a coffee bar, and there's been an explosion of them in Edinburgh in recent years (*how* many Starbucks do we have now?). But they're a lot less likely to want to host traditional music than a pub is. Anybody within reach of Dalkeith? A publican there says I can have a room for a traditional music session any time I want. Problem with Midlothian is that most of the pub session and folk club space is taken up by people with guitars doing tedious Nashville-type singer-songwriter stuff, which I find so brainfreezingly dull my fingers don't work right any more after listening to a few numbers of it. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === 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
RE: [scots-l] First days of August?
Actually I pointed Dominique in the direction of the Ryanair website and would do the same for anyone on the list fancying a tune at any of the pubs on the Paris session list; it would be cheaper to fly from Prestwick than coach'n'ferry it. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 July 2001 23:02 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] First days of August? I just reread your post regarding transport from London to Glasgow. as no one else has replied. Cheapest is coach, see the National coach site. rail is much faster and more comfortable even with the present difficulties but much more expensive. One can book coach, through from France, through Eurocoach. the same is true for rail. L. Sullivan 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
RE: [scots-l] lurker and solo performance horror stories
Ah, the Horror, the Horror! Playing with the Cromarty Ceilidh Band one night at the Dalmore Hotel in Alness (both institutions now alas defunct, although at least they haven't built a Safeway on top of the CCB) I had been rushing up the A9 from Edinburgh, arrived just as the chaps were taking the stage, whipped 'e trusty mandola from its case, sat down, grinned, pushed my chair back from the mike a bit and went flying A-O-T off the back of the stage into a ghastly Nether World of stacking chairs and man-eating dust-bunnies! Wake up screaming. Jonathan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 15 June 2001 10:37 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [scots-l] lurker and solo performance horror stories Hello all! Yes, I too am a lurker. Great list with lots of interesting topics, but since I'm rather new to the Scottish music scene (only been interested about 6 years with not much research) I usually don't have much to add to the conversation. Anyway, I was playing for the local RSCDS dance class last night and was the victim of getting into the music a little too much. I was halfway through a strathspey set and about to start the 5 time through with the Banks of Spey. I was playing well and feeling the music and really wanted to start this tune off with a bang. But, I played the opening chord a wee bit too hard and bounced the bow off the strings, over to my chin side of the bridge where the hair got stuck in the fine tuners. Since I play solo the music stopped much to everyone's surprise while I figured out what had happened. I though my bow had snapped! I regained my composure (hid my embarrasment) and played the rest of the set. We all had a good laugh after the final chord. Anyone else have a solo horror story? -Eric Dodson 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
RE: [scots-l] Jack or other net experts: help!
I got a 'Jonathan' one; same old same old, just addressed to a jonathan instead of a Davidcould they be designed to elicit a reply thereby confirming the currency of our email addresses to sell as a 'purified' list?? Jonathan ( o}==:: -Original Message- From: Toby Rider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 March 2001 16:53 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Jack or other net experts: help! Wendy Galovich wrote: Does anyone know if the Outlook family of mailers can be abused in the same way with VBScript? If they can, I'd avoid those mailers altogether, since M$ apparently doesn't see the need to provide you with any way of disabling VBScript. Wendy Yup, use Pine or Mutt :-) 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
Re: [scots-l] Nigel's depressed and so am I
And can anyone please explain to me why it has become compulsory to have Davie Spillane's irish pipes as soundtrack to every programme about Scotland on TV Never mind; Quebecois is going to be the new wave and see off all the overcooked Irish stuff. Quebecois pubs, full of blokes with big black moustaches and baseball caps.no more bodhran players at sessions, just blokes stamping their feet tagada-tagada-tagada...two extra bars in every reeleh? Just a thought! Jonathan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: [scots-l] Nigel's depressed and so am I Nigel Gatherer wrote about the Scottish Young Traditional Music Awards: Last Thursday they featured the Scottish Young Traditional Music Awards - or some such - and I found it rather depressing listening. Most of the young musicians chose to play Irish tunes and sets, some of them very much in an Irish style. One fiddler - from Perthshire, I think - was trying to sound like a cross between Martin Hayes and Eileen Ivers. Oh, God, don't tell me Scotland is becoming like New York. There ARE Scottish players here in NY but not much of a listening audience. And I beg to differ with whoever said that Irish tunes are better. There is a wider range of Scottish tunes, more rhythms and styles, better melodies, and, besides, a lot of "Irish" tunes are really Scottish, as I'm sure you all know. The problem in Scotland is that the "traditional" styles these kids have grown up with are really the style of those "fiddle orchestras" all playing in unison -- so perhaps I don't blame them for looking for something different. But there's more to Scottish fiddle music than those orchestras, vide the Cape Breton styles. IMHO, Irish is extremely overdone these days. That commercial for Riverdance (the "sensual") runs a couple hundred times a day on the NY telly. I'm sooo sick of it. Teanga (Robyn) 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
Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand - a Nation Mourns
Was that the Torry Quine? She was never that age surely? Jonathan - Original Message - From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [scots-l] Jimmy Shand - a Nation Mourns Big dilemma here when I thought I'd watch the telly for a bit tonight. One the one channel, there's a bio-documentary on the life of Dr Alex Comfort, author of the 'The Joy of Sex', and guru of free love. On the other, a programme on the life of Jimmy Shand. Within three days, we lost: - Jimmy Shand (age 92) - Victor Borge (age 92) - W.V.O. Quine (age 92) - the Singing Postman I can kinda imagine Borge extending the "phonetic pronunciation" sketch to handle the notation of Quine's "Set Theory and Its Logic", but but a collective obituary of all of them would be quite an achievement. === http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ === 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
Re: [scots-l] Balnain House
Yes; there was a press conference last week and the lesson programme finished this week ( it was due to end for the holidays anyway )...the tutors and staff are hoping to be paid, and it looks like the House will not see 2001 in. I haven't spoken to anyone at Balnain since Tuesday night, so I'm not 100% up to date. Even If they salvage the BAlnain project it is very very unlikely to remain in Balnain House Jonathan (erstwhile Guitar tutor ) - Original Message - From: Tappan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 6:53 AM Subject: [scots-l] Balnain House Someone on another list I'm on forwarded this from the Travel in Scotland Newsletter. Have anyone heard about this? Is it true? Balnain House, the Inverness company devoted to promoting Highland music, is to close following financial difficulties running to around £50,000. Billed as the "home of Highland music", Balnain House has been a popular venue for traditional music sessions, workshops and concerts as well as hosting an exhibition of Highland Music. The building on the shores of the River Ness also houses a shop and a restaurant. The Board of Balnain House made the decision to call it a day after a Glasgow-based business consultant reported that the company's activities coupled with having to look after an A-listed building were unsustainable. The company will now be wound up by the end of December. Four years ago Balnain House encountered similar financial troubles and were taken over by the National Trust for Scotland with the help of grant aid from Historic Scotland. 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
[scots-l] Scottish Fiddlers and their Music
I came across the above book recently (pub. Gollcanz [sp?], author I know not)...anyone seeking it? Jonathan Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
