Robert Burns - 250th Anniversary
 

'Tis 250 years since Robert Burns birth tomorrow Sunday 25 th January

O' my Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June: O'my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in luve am I; And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun; And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve! And fare-thee-weel, a while! And I will come again, my Luve, Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!

2009 is also the Year of the Homecoming, which commences on Sunday. There will be a global gathering of the clans in Edinburgh in July.

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The AD caledonian society burns supper is being held at the gardens of the british embassy..

The gathering in Edinburgh will be simply awesome. I'm home in July for a wedding in Arbroath Abbey, hopefully it will tie in with a trip to good ole edinburger

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Agree...the clan gathering and massed pipes and drums scheduled should be great. I would loved to have gone to the tattoo, which should be spectacular this year.

Went 'home' last year..Inverness and Forth William..but got eaten alive by the midges :frown:

Instead, going back to Australia (Melbourne) next week for a holiday.

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MacScot,

Although I have (as far as I know) not a drop of Scots blood in me, I found that curiously moving.

Did I miss the name of the singer?

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Mika

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The tattoo has got to be one of the greatest spectacles on earth, ok I'm biased but I defy anyone not to be totally awestruck by it..

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That is the immediately recognisable Eddie Reader, of Fairground Attraction
Same same





with Burns's Ae Fond Kiss.....

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If you like Eddi Reader and her ilk, you will not get a better compilation than;

'The bird and the tree and the fish and the bell'

One of my favourite LP's..

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Tis good.

'In the second city of the empire..........

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To try and catch the fish that wouldnae swim...

Mother Glasgow, my favourite song performed by shug and greet

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Sorry?

Forgive my (lack of) musical history education.............

Mika or Eddie Reader??

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Eddi reader, eddie reader is a bloke

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Agree with you...Glasgow....

...but I have frequently heard that Liverpool also gets this label ?

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For all its problems, I don't get a better feeling than when I land in Glasgow. The city centre is just heavenly..

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Sorry 'tis Eddi- mea culpa.


Well Dean, p'haps you should open up the Song Reflecting now and again- a whole musical education awaits ya.

Here ya go Commander, though I think Eddi does it better.
Mi piace Hue and Cry especially Violently, I Refuse and some others I can't remember at the mo.Their new stuff isn't as good imho.