The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #137476   Message #3146270
Posted By: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
02-May-11 - 05:02 AM
Thread Name: Ballads at Morpeth Tomorrow
Subject: RE: Ballads at Morpeth Tomorrow
Efforts, eh? Well, the Border Music gig was heaving - 50+ eager (paying) punters, young & old, folkie and non-folkie, packed into the Morpeth Chantry at 4pm on a blistering Saturday afternoon to listen attentively to an hour of unrelenting pipe tunes and balladry - A Border Tapestry indeed - heavy on drones both cauld wind, bowed and electronic - which became a Travelogue with Matt's stories of the Eildon Hills and Thomas of Ercildoune (and milk white steeds at Carterhaugh) thence to Norham on the Tweed for Binnorie using the version given in the Northumbrian Minstrelsy; Earl Brand likewise. Rapunzel truncated Tam Lin to cut to the chase, but otherwise all we lost was the odd verse here and there...

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