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Thread #163783   Message #4021207
Posted By: GUEST
26-Nov-19 - 01:32 PM
Thread Name: 2018 Obit: Nigel Denver, Scottish folk singer
Subject: RE: 2018 Obit: Nigel Denver, Scottish folk singer
Marion Paterson (Blairgowrie Folk Festival 86 -96) I knew wee Nigel well in the late 60's early seventies when he came to Blair for a weekend with us, after saying he had not been to Scotland for years and begging to come with us!- we got four hours straight sleep over five days! - and he played our clubs in Somerset and Sussex many times.He took no prisoners and the stories I could tell are numerous. I particularly remember him entertaining a coach load of English pensioners in the Royal Hotel Blairgowrie with your songs, which I think they understood, and they loved him. We could do with him now. He sang a song about Marooning Tartan Tories on an Island in the Mist and sailing away from England with the SNP. Was it one of yours? I learned many of your songs from him and am very sad to read of his passing. He was a one-off.