Hi, Dan and Ian and others - Thanks for the info on local music, and music connections that you have sent along to me by way of the List or separately. The broadside ballads site is wonderful - too bad Valentina is on sabbatical, or I would try to find her for a cuppa and a chat. However, thanks to a couple of you I have found the website of the D&G Arts Association, and that is worth a good wander if you haven't already found it yourselves. Here is the homepage: http://www.dgaa.net/index.php There are many performers of traditional music listed, with several in Dumfries and many close by, so I should be able to find one or two for a chat while I am there. Now, all I need is two months' time squeezed into four days!! Muff On Monday, November 8, 2004, at 04:59 AM, DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > From: Dan MacMeekin <dan@macmeekin.com> > Date: Sun Nov 7, 2004 8:51:02 PM Atlantic/Reykjavik > To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [D-G LIST] D&G music, and teachers > > > Hi, Muff-- > > Two years or so ago, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC > featured Scotland in its annual National Folklife Festival. From each > featured area, the Festival brings many artisans and artists, > particularly musicians, and also a number of knowledgeable individuals > to lecture, act as masters of ceremonies, and so forth. > > I spent a lot of time at the Festival. Other parts of Scotland seemed > to receive more attention than D & G but a Ms. Valentina Bold seemed > to be the Festival's expert on the folk music of southwestern > Scotland. She is on the faculty of the University of Glasgow's > Crichton Campus in Dumfries. Take a look at her Broadside Ballads > website, at http://www.broadsideballads.gallowayfolk.co.uk/ > > If you like what you see, Ms. Bold's contact information is listed on > that page as well. > > Muff Worden Ranargata 3 710 Seydisfjordur Iceland Phone: +354-472-1775 Mobile/Cell/GSM: +354-849-2744 Web: www.geocities.com/mworden.geo/