Landmarks for me: being a volunteer steward at Edinburgh Folk Festival (the last one ever, sadly!) in 1999, and drawing the longest straw ever, to steward the Hamish Henderson 80th Birthday concert in "The Hub" (formerly St Columba's Church) at the top of The Royal Mile, just below Edinburgh Castle. Must confess that I didn't know an awful lot about Hamish prior to that night, but learned a huge amount in one evening. Hamish was already quite frail but came on stage towards the end of the concert to lead "Freedom Come All Ye": hugely touching moment.
Some time after that, I was at a workshop with Gordeanna McCulloch who presented this as one of her workshop songs: she went through every word, explaining the meanings to those of us of lesser Scotticism, and thereafter it still took me about 5 years to learn it, but now I sing it with huge pride. This includes last Saturday, both playing and singin it during the "All Under One Banner" March for Independence down Edinburgh's Royal Mile: this was as we passed the Scottish Story-Telling Centre where this is a commemorative bust of Hamish looking down on all assembled company!