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Elizabeth.
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27 Aug 2009 at 16:47 |
David Francis, the chair of the Traditional Arts Working Group, will be hosting a series of public meetings across Scotland to allow as many people as possible the opportunity to feed their views into the group's ongoing work. The meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the sector.
Tuesday 1 September - Hawick - 19:30-21:30
Tower Mill, Heart of Hawick
Kirkstile
Hawick
TD9 0AE
Wednesday 2 September - Inverness - 18:30-20:30
SGL Room
Eden Court Theatre
Bishop's Road
Inverness
IV3 5SA
(replaces the earlier, cancelled Fort William meeting)
Thursday 3 September - Benbecula - 18:30-20:30
Sgoil Lìonacleit
Isle of Benbecula
HS7 5PJ
Sunday 6 September - Huntly - 14:30-16:30
Huntly Hotel,
18 The Square
Huntly
Aberdeenshire
AB54 8BR
Monday 7 September - Edinburgh - 18:30-20:30
Out of the Blue Drill Hall
36 Dalmeny Street
Edinburgh
EH6 8RG
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blues x man
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Posted:
27 Aug 2009 at 17:13 |
Think I'll go along the one on Tuesday to see what the fuss is about, if any. |
blues x man
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Posted:
27 Aug 2009 at 17:20 |
Who is on the group, incidentally? |
David Francis
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Posted:
27 Aug 2009 at 17:37 |
| The group consists of Stuart Eydmann, Fiona Dalgetty, Mary Ann Kennedy, Ruth Kirkpatrick and Mats Melin, with me in the chair. |
nic a' phlutes
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27 Aug 2009 at 17:48 |
| http://www.hebridesnews.co.uk/groups_and_quangos.html |
blues x man
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28 Aug 2009 at 01:26 |
Great letter, Nic - thanks for passing that on.
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Simon T
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28 Aug 2009 at 15:46 |
| That guys letter is garbage and misinformed. It just shows his lack of understanding of the current situation. If it was up to him the Feisan wouldn't exist. Traditional music if it is to survive has to be understood by the Goverment who then can put funds and strategies in place to help it continue to grow at the rate it is at the moment. |
blues x man
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28 Aug 2009 at 16:17 |
Time will tell, Simon.
Looking forward to hearing the group's answers to my questions on Tuesday. Be nice to get an answer from each individual member, too: everyone has their own particular stand point.
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Dody
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28 Aug 2009 at 17:14 |
I don't think I can make it to the Inverness night, unfortunately. I hope there's a reasonable turn-out.
I can sympathise with several points in Aonghas Caimbeul's letter in Nic a' Phlute's post. It is incredible to think that one's indigenous culture needs any artificial maintenance when it appears to be maintaining itself admirably within one's own household or immediate community, and has developed and maintained itself for the past millenium and more. I can appreciate his dismissal of groups and quangos as unnecessary and unwanted, but as Simon rightly points out, these groups and quangos have indeed reversed (or at least slowed) the slide into obscurity of Aonghas Caimbeul's culture, a culture which I share and love, and which I will do all in my personal and professional power to protect. Both An Comunn Gaidhealach (in the 1890s) and Fèisean nan Gàidheal (in the 1990s) were established to address the problem of language and cultural shift. Both may come in for criticism on occasion; some of it may even be deserved, but we would be in a sorry state, culturally, without them, in my opinion.
Iona
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blues x man
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01 Sep 2009 at 16:08 |
Last call for tonight's meeting in Hawick. |
David Francis
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02 Sep 2009 at 00:00 |
Thanks to everyone who came along to Hawick earlier this evening. We had a great range of activists from the whole range of the traditional arts world.
We'll be in Inverness tonight (2 September) at the Eden Court, 6.30pm. |
fishman
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04 Sep 2009 at 17:39 |
| From what I can see, most of the events posted here, and most of the profesional trad musos who post here are recipients of public arts funding. These funds were wrestled off the arts establishment mainly with a great deal of struggle throughout the 90's. Trad music organisations had to do a lot of persuading, fill in endless forms, endure a lot of indifference, and often hostility, to gain that ground. The last couple of years has seen major cuts and set backs. I do hope people will go along to the last Trad arts working group meeting on Monday and support that which has supported them over the past 20 years. New folk need to get involved and create news ways forward. Yes we can. Because we are worth it. |
David Francis
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07 Sep 2009 at 09:38 |
Tonight sees the last of the Traditional Arts Working Group's public meetings in Edinburgh (Out of the Blue, Dalmeny St, 6.30). Thanks to all who came out for the meetings this week, including the lone attendee in Inverness. The other meetings this week - Hawick, Benbecula, Huntly - were all well attended, however, with contributions from musicians, storytellers, dancers, dance-callers, fiddle and accordion clubs, promoters, festivals, journalists, teachers, feisean, pipe bands, parents of learners, audience members, the RSCDS, council officers, instrument makers, students, folk clubs, the whole gamut of activity that goes under the heading 'traditional arts'.
If you're in Edinburgh or nearby it'd be great to see you this evening. |
Simon T
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08 Sep 2009 at 13:13 |
| How did it go? |
pater
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08 Sep 2009 at 15:06 |
Though having to leave before the end, found it very interesting, and I am looking forward to seeing the overall findings!
Now realise I forgot to leave David F a web address he requested - http://www.angelfire.com/planet/scottishsonggroups/
Not a bad example of some of the points we were discussing... |
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