[scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #420 (Crieff)

2001-10-07 Thread Teanga
Get it going, Nigel, so I can come next year and participate in your sessions.  My husband remembers that in 1978 the "Newtons" entertained at a party for the St. Johnston Football Club at the Drummond Arms Hotel. Robyn

[scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #420 (Re: Crieff music)

2001-10-05 Thread Teanga
About Tantallon's appearance in Crieff: >it was a shame that there were perhaps twelve of an audience at the most.> Toward the end of August in '98, my husband and I stayed in Crieff. I was delighted when I saw an announcement in the postings in the Town Square that there would be a meeting

[scots-l] Amazing Grace

2001-07-12 Thread Teanga
Amazing Grace 's entry in The Fiddler's Companion on the Ceolas site states that in Beyond the Hebrides, edited by Donald Fergusson, there is the following:   "Since the melody is that of a bag-pipe tune and is a gapped-scale melody with a distinctly modal, plain-song character, it is very prob

[scots-l] Macleod and Prebble?

2001-02-05 Thread Teanga
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 09:48 + (GMT Standard Time) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Derek Hoy) Subject: Re: [scots-l] Need Jim MacLeod information Regarding possible passing of Jim Macleod: Derek Hoy wrote: >Hadn't heard that. Is it true? >Departures last week included John Prebble and Jack Milroy.

[scots-l] Nigel's depressed and so am I

2001-02-03 Thread Teanga
ton 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

[scots-l] Need Jim MacLeod information

2001-02-03 Thread Teanga
I have so little time these days to read my mail so I apologize if the following subject was already discussed. I've been told that Jim MacLeod has died. Can anyone direct me to an obituary where I can find more information? Teanga (Robyn) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish

[scots-l] Origins of Appalachian fiddling

2000-10-17 Thread Teanga
hey don't, I wish I could make it to the fiddle tent in Stone Mountain but I'm up here in NYC where appreciation of Scottish fiddling is just about nil, compared to Irish fiddling. Teanga Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html