Weyelll...For some reason a number of my cousins from both sides of the family turned out to be musicians...maybe its the times we were born in. Another cousin is stepmother to Dave Bidini, of the Toronto band the Rheostatics, who wrote a book a year or two ago about the Canadian music scene, war stories as it were. Haven't read it and I've never met him, actually. Don't see much of my cousins.

In the mid-nineteenth century a Cameron ancestor of mine was an up-and-coming academic in Edinburgh, but did something scandalous which derailed his career and caused him to have to be exiled to Skye where he was a highly regarded and I suppose overqualified country schoolteacher. He was known locally as "The Scholar" and apparently "they" bought him a house in some little place there (possibly Applecross). I am very curious about the provenance of the Scottish fiddle tune "The Scholar".

Also, my Scottish grandmother, a McCorquodale, was listening to CBC radio one day and became very excited at hearing some Gaelic song, she started shouting, "That's the one about me father's sheep dog, Pilot!!!" (Might have been from Tiree.)

I have no idea, I just pass on rumours and hearsay...

Willie-O