We have been at the Boda Bar for about a year, but it’s closing on Tuesday. The Boda Bar group will still be there, and we don’t know what will happen at the current venue – so keep watching the Edinburgh Scandi Session website to find out where we end up! Photo of the survivors of the session above – there were eight of us in total but others had to go earlier.
A lovely warm day – up to about 29C at maximum inland – so rather than the usual swim at the pool Anne and I went off to the beach at Yellowcraigs. Continue reading
We visited this reconstruction of an iron age crannog – at the Scottish Crannog Centre. It’s really well done. Continue reading
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.
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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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.
Continue readingIt’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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