Going places
We're not a 'let's just get a taxi' family, but I needed to jump in one to get to the Fringe concert my daughter was performing in. As well as getting me there on time, I was pleased that it was a University of Aberdeen taxi - my alma mater. I wonder what its founder over 500 years ago, Bishop Elphinstone, would have thought of taxi advertising? At the forefront then - it was the first university in the English-speaking world to have a chair of medicine - I like to think he would approve.
The University of Aberdeen
You may recognise the palm trees in the background from a post last August. The concert was at the same venue as last year: the Columcille Centre.
Tropical Fringe
My daughter was playing the clarsach and singing with another three young clarsach players and a fiddler. Two of the performers are about to go to music conservatoire to study Scottish traditional music. The other three are still at school. It was really gratifying that there was a full house on an evening when the Fringe and Festival offered goodness knows how many shows of different sorts.
Recording was not allowed, so I stuck by the rules, but here's one of the songs my daughter sang, accompanied by clarsach and fiddle: 'Follow the Heron Home', by the Scottish singer-songwriter Karine Polwart.
hope you enjoyed your time at the Fringe concert. thanks for sharing the video of your daughter singing as it was a pleasure listening to her beautiful voice. hope all is well.
ReplyDeleteHow nice that your daughter performs, too bad no recording. I enjoyed the video. Oh and I was born in Aberdeen here in Washington which they call the sister city to Aberdeen, Scotland.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely voice she has.
ReplyDeleteThat's a lovely song your daughter performed! It's too bad you weren't allowed to record her singing it though, I have always thought that exceptions to such rules should be made for family members. We don't allow recordings during masses at the church where I work, but we make exceptions for members of the media and the families of the members of our boys' choir.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful song and voice. Thanks! No secret recording of your daughter?
ReplyDeletepour répodre à ta question ,la fleur est un chardon bleu :)
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed the song. :-) Beautiful voice and song.
ReplyDeleteThe song was lovely!
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice post.
ReplyDeleteSO this is your daughter singing?? BEAUTIFUL!!!! So glad I got to hear this!
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the comments. Just to clarify, the video is of Karine Polwart, not of my daughter. We were asked not to record the concert, so this is the nearest I could get.
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