Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)

Subject: Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 18 Mar 06 - 08:44 AM


Happy Birthday!

Concertinister & piper, especially with the marvelous High Level Ranters

Alistair Anderson

was born 3/18/1948
in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear (a Metropolitan Borough) England.

Per the AMG biography: "A pioneering force in Northumbrian folk music." Later, [thanx George Hawes] he co-founded Folkworks, the UK's leading regional Folk Development Agency, currently (1998) involved in Arts Centre project on Tyneside.

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Subject: RE: Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 06:27 AM

Alistair was kind enough to play his concertina over my wife´s belly, when my eldest daughter was still in the womb about two months before she was born.

Amazingly she doesn´t have a musical note in her body!

Clearly nature rather than nuture I´d say.

Mind he is wearing well for 58.

Subject: RE: Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)
From: georgeward
Date: 19 Mar 06 - 09:08 PM

An inspiration as a musician in his own right, and all the more so for his work with Folkworks (we need Folkworks-equivalents the whole world 'round).

Happy! indeed (Thank you, Abby). And Happy Birthday to one of those who make the music live.

- G

Subject: RE: Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)
From: GUEST,Hen Harrier
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 10:11 AM

Here, here!

Subject: RE: Happy! - Mar 18 (Alistair Anderson)
From: GUEST,DocTom
Date: 20 Mar 06 - 11:45 AM

Or even Hear! Hear!

Subject: Alexander's Ragtime Band 100 today
From: mayomick
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 07:22 AM

Alexander's Ragtime Band was first published one hundred years ago today on 18 March, 1911. Happy Centenary .