We enjoyed a couple of great concerts the last two weekends – Baltic Crossing last Sunday (after the Northern Streams festival) and Väsen at a Queen’s Hall 40th anniversary concert last night.
Weekend concerts
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Sunny Easter!
We had a great week in Dumfries and Galloway over Easter, with glorious weather. The wicker horse was decorating Kirkcudbright centre, I fitted in a couple of bike rides in the sunshine, we visited MacLellan’s Castle, the savings bank museum and kirkyard in Ruthwell, and I had my first sea swim of the season (cold water though, only about 9C I think!). I also found a rather glorious mediaeval goblet in the shop at MacLellan’s Castle! And of course I forgot to add when I first put this up – we went to the lovely session at the Steam Packet Inn in Isle of Whithorn, where the nyckelharpa had a great time as always (joined by the fiddle on this occasion!).
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Celtic Connections – 2
Our second visit to Celtic Connections this year – this time to hear The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc, who were supported by Juliet North.
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We didn’t go through to the Young Trad Musician finals this year as it was the day of an Edinburgh Scandi Session. As it happened, there was a great concert to go to in the evening anyway – Vishtèn were appearing at the Traverse Theatre bar.
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It’s January so it must be Celtic Connections.
We had interesting seats in the Royal Concert Hall, enabling me to be critical of the sound techs 🙂
It was a great concert though, with Malinky supporting TOSTA Banda, a fusion of minority language groups from the west of Europe.
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Christmas Market 2018
We went in to the Christmas market today so that Marwyn could get her annual fill of bratwurst. Good weather, fortunately.
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Castlelaw Hill, Pentlands
After a break since earlier this year, I got out walking again with Anne – we did a little walk up Castlelaw Hill to check out her knees! All seems well, thankfully. It was an extremely windy day, but our walk slotted in nicely between showers so we didn’t get wet.
