Re: [scots-l] Kirriemuir Festival
- Original Message - From: Jack Campin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [scots-l] Kirriemuir Festival I am trying to find out what's up at the festival at Kirriemuir, all the information I have found just talks very generally (concerts, ceilidhs, sesions...) Does anybody know if there's any actual programme or list of events? Thanks, Manuel Waldesco I posted a list before and I'm just back from it. I don't think you were there? you missed yourself. -- In fact I did, we were pretty tired by the weekend and decided to stay closer to home, so we went to see the stones at Aberlemno before they cover them up and we ended up eating the worst high tea in all Angus in a pub in Forfar... So maybe next year... anyway, I am going for sure tomorrow to the Ballad concert at House of Dun, if anybody goes there, I can be identified for being almost certainly the only Spaniard in the venue Cheers, Manuel Waldesco 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] Kirriemuir Festival
I am trying to find out what's up at the festival at Kirriemuir, all the information I have found just talks very generally (concerts, ceilidhs, sesions...) Does anybody know if there's any actual programme or list of events? Thanks, Manuel Waldesco I posted a list before and I'm just back from it. I don't think you were there? you missed yourself. It was rather unlike any other festival I've been to in having lots of small sessions scattered all over the town rather than two or three huge ones; I prefer the smaller ones as you end up with more varied repertoire and can hear what you're doing better. I don't think I've ever played so many tunes in F before. Many were meant to be that way, but partly it was due to a guy with a C/F melodeon who turned up to the session in Rennie's cycle shop. He could play it very well, but had no conception that what he was doing was in any way odd, or that some people might find The Mason's Apron in F or The 79th's Farewell to Gibraltar in C a tad problematic. Some people get the hint about excessive use of weird keys after I pull out my c.1900 continental-pitch Austrian ocarina and do a retreat march in E flat minor, but he wasn't one of them. Kudos to the very good whistle player sitting beside me who managed to mostly fake this F stuff using just a D whistle; I couldn't have pulled that off. Tunes and songs I resolved to learn after that weekend: - Willie Forrest (? I think) by Freeland Barbour (in E and A). - MacArthur's Reel by I don't know who (a recent tune that goes into fiddle third position; heard it before as a party trick but Karen Hannah made a real piece of music out of it). - Whatever You Say, Say Nothing (very funny Irish political song but the guy who attempted it got lost half-way through). (For anyone who was there and didn't introduce themselves, that was me in the green tweed kilt and the shirt that would do as military camo on one of the more garish moons of Saturn). The major disappointment was finding that there is no such thing as Kirriemuir gingerbread any more. The nearest bakery is in Forfar, and the only version of the stuff on sale was the made-in-Shotts one you get everywhere. And they're going to have to look further than Inverness if the virgin quota is to match previous years. - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ * homepage for my CD-ROMs of Scottish traditional music; free stuff on food intolerance, music and Mac logic fonts. 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] Kirriemuir Festival
- MacArthur's Reel by I don't know who (a recent tune that goes into fiddle third position; heard it before as a party trick but Karen Hannah made a real piece of music out of it). Jack - Might this be MacArthur's Road Reel by Dave Richardson? He made it in E which requires reaching some very high notes Kinnon Beaton in Cape Breton plays it in D. You can find a gif image of the notation on Paul Cranford's site. http://www.cranfordpub.com You may have to use the site's search function to find it. John 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] Kirriemuir Festival
I am trying to find out what's up at the festival at Kirriemuir, all the information I have found just talks very generally (concerts, ceilidhs, sesions...) Does anybody know if there's any actual programme or list of events? I've got a paper one here (I'm going). Concert on Friday night, competitions during the day on Saturday, silver band concert Saturday afternoon, prizewinners concert, ceilidh, dance and singaround that evening, ceilidhs on Sunday afternoon and evening. Guest performers this year: Sangsters, Neil Patterson Karen Hannah, Laura Sarah Simpson, Iain Grant (who says I've got to buy a ticket to hear him or I'll never be forgiven), Doris Rougvie, Bryce Johnstone, the Danelaw Band, Jim Taylor, Joe Aitken, Forfar Instrumental Band, Scott Gardiner, Shona Donaldson, Angus SR Society, Carrou Mor Band. BTW, one person I haven't seen on the festival scene for a while is Ted Polytello (superb ballad singer from Auchtermuchty or nearby). Last heard him at a concert in Edinburgh with Jock Duncan. Anyone know what happened to him? - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack * food intolerance data recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. off-list mail to j-c rather than scots-l at this site, please Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
