In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nigel Gatherer
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Richard Evans wrote:
4. Which town held Scotland's first folk festival in 1964?
Blairgowrie or Newcastleton. I thought Blairgowrie was first but I
also thought it dated back to the late fifties...
According to my records
look it up.
Cheers
Richard
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are they?
Cheers
Richard
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further information much appreciated.
I've been playing it as an air- it's a beautiful, relaxed melody.
Cheers
Richard
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you want to call it. Most of the audience
are known to each other and the performers, and it makes for a really
good atmosphere.
I believe the timekeeper used to be armed with a water-pistol, but that
has been discontinued on safety grounds.
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if they grow
hops at Stannerton, wherever that is (could it mean Stannington near
Morpeth?), that might be what it's about.
A lurker unlurks:
A hopping is a fair. There's a big fair on Newcastle Town Moor every
summer simply known as the hoppings
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an excellent book containing all his music and detailed
historical notes published by the Northumbrian Pipers Society.
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