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Illustrated Talk by Rosa Michaelson: 7th July 1.15-1.45pm

fiddle, Illustrated Talk, traditional

For the Friends of Wighton July Lunchtime Recital, we are delighted to welcome well known musician and researcher ROSA MICHAELSON

Rosa will give us an illustrated talk about James S. Kerr, who published the popular fiddle collections of Merry Melodies. In the past 12 months she has been doing research on musical life in Scotland in the second half of the 19th century, focusing on Kerr and dance music.  She presented this at the online North-Atlantic Fiddle Convention at the end of June . 

Rosa Michaelson was taught the violin at primary school in Edinburgh in the 1960s using the Eta Cohen method, with its repertoire of folk tunes. In secondary school, her violin teacher gave her a copy of Kerr’s Merry Melodies to study, and she played for ceilidhs and in several orchestras. Rosa joined the Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers in the 1970s and was a founder member of the first all-female Scottish traditional music group, Sprangeen. She has been in several ceilidh/dance bands, including the Loose Moose Ceilidh Band. She regularly contributes to sessions in Edinburgh and Fife. Rosa is an Honorary SL at the University of Dundee; she works p/t in the School of Computer Science, St Andrews University. 

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

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Lunchtime Recital with Sheena Wellington – 2nd June 1.15 – 1.45pm

concerts, lunchtime concert, Scots song, Scottish, Sheena Wellingon, song, traditional

Friends of Wighton stalwart Sheena Wellington will be the guest in the Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 2nd June.

The well-known local singer needs little introduction but promises to bring along some ballads, some stories and perhaps, some fun!

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lunchtime Recital
Time: Jun 2, 2021 01:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time

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Sandy Brechin: Wednesday 5th May

Accordion, lunchtime concert, music, Online, Scottish music

Sandy Brechin: Wednesday 5th May 2021 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Sandy Brechin is one of Scotland’s best known accordionists, famous for his lightning-fast playing and hilarious on-stage humour. He has developed his own unique approach to the art of accordion playing and his innovative style is instantly recognisable: a combination of slick, incredibly fast finger-work on the melody and a revolutionary method of syncopation on the bass. Sandy was the first in Scotland to play professionally the small 48 bass size of accordion, which is now pretty much his trademark. Despite its small size and range, Sandy gets a huge sound out of it.

Sandy also has a great sense of humour so be ready for some fun!

Admission is free but you can donate to Sandy’s tipjar =    www.paypal.me/sandybrechin

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lunchtime Recital – Sandy Brechin, accordion & fun!
Time: May 5, 2021 01:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time

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Meeting ID: 831 8217 8611
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Gavin Marwick and Ruth Morris: Wednesday 21st April

fiddle, lunchtime concert, music, Online, traditional music

Gavin Marwick and Ruth Morris: Wednesday 21st April 2021 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Spirited fiddle and beautiful nyckelharpa bring you a wonderful selection of old and new tunes for all around Scotland and Europe. Gavin Marwick and Ruth Morris have been performing together for over fifteen years in bands such as Bellevue Rendezvous, Gav’s various Journeyman shows and their Galloway based ceilidh band Whirligig. The duo is a new and exciting way to enjoy their intimate and engaging acoustic string driven sound.

The link for the video below will be live from 1.15pm on 21st April

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Aaron Jones & Claire Mann: Wednesday 7th April

lunchtime concert, multi instrumentalist, music, song, traditional music

Wednesday 7th April 2021 1.15pm – 1.45pm: Aaron Jones & Claire Mann via Zoom

Claire Mann and Aaron Jones have been stalwarts of the traditional music scene in Scotland 

for nearly thirty years. Between them they have been lucky enough to perform with some of 

traditional music’s finest appearing on nearly one hundred recordings and touring the World. 

Their debut duo CD, ’Secret Orders’ was released back in 2005 to great critical acclaim and 

they continue to tour, record, teach music and raise their three young children from their base

 in beautiful Dumfries and Galloway.

Topic: Lunchtime Recital with Aaron Jones and Claire Mann (free but donations accepted)
Time: Apr 7, 2021 01:00 PM for 1.15pm start Greenwich Mean Time

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Dr Sally Garden: first Musician in Residence at the Wighton Heritage Centre shares a rare Wighton score

music, Scots song, Scottish music, song, traditional music

Mezzo-soprano and musicologist Dr Sally Garden hails from an Angus farming family, and is the youngest of four professional musician siblings.  She has a special interest in Scots and Scandinavian song and is founder of the Grieg Society of Scotland. Her recital and research work, which has seen her tour the castles, kirks and concert halls of Scotland, has also taken her to Norway, Denmark and Germany.

Sally is a member of the Walter Scott Minstrelsy Project (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), a former Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Scandinavian Studies (University of Aberdeen), and earlier in her career was appointed Historical Musician in Residence at the Wighton Heritage Centre, Dundee, where she directed a 3-year programme of events to unfold one of Scotland’s finest music archives. In 2009, she pioneered the first ever live music event at the National Library of Scotland, with an invited lecture-recital on Scottish-Scandinavian musical links, entitled Hu, Hei, Duncan Gray! Sally is also editor of the complete songs of Aberdonian composer Ronald Center

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Zoom Recital with Simon Chadwick Wednesday 3rd March 1-15 pm

concert, harp, lunchtime concert, Simon Chadwick, traditional music

Medieval Harp virtuoso Simon Chadwick needs no introduction to the Wighton audience.   As Musician in Residence, harp tutor and hard working secretary he was a mainstay of Friends of Wighton  for many years.  Since he moved to Armagh in 2018 though we have kept in touch. He has been sorely missed, so it is a particular delight to welcome him on the 3rd.

A Chadwick recital is always a treat and an adventure. During the last year’s lockdowns, Simon has been working on old Irish harp tunes from the Bunting collection, finding unusual tunes, and unusual versions of better known tunes. He will play some of them for you on Wednesday including some with interesting connections to versions in the Wighton collection.   

The Zoom link is below, the Recital is free but donations can be made on our webpage  www.friendsofwighton.com

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Wighton Lunchtime Recital
Time: Mar 3, 2021 01:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time

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Zoom recital with Ensemble Hesperi 3rd February

lunchtime concert, music, Online, Scottish, Scottish music

3rd February 2021, 1pm: Hesperi at Home: Concert for the Friends of the Wighton Collection

Bite-size Baroque #3 “Music from the Wighton Collection”

Join us this Wednesday *ON ZOOM* for a duo recital for the Friends of the Wighton Collection!

Tom and I are *so” excited to be performing for the Friends of Wighton this coming Wednesday lunchtime, as the third of our “Bite-Size Baroque” series! This week won’t be quite so “bite-size” though; we’ll be presenting around an hour’s recital of all sorts of music from the Wighton Collection, an incredible collection of Scottish music held in Dundee Central Library. Composers to include William McGibbon, John Reid, Elizabeth Hardin, Giuseppe Sammartini, Walter Clagget, Robert Bremner, and of course, James Oswald. All new repertoire! 

This week, you’ll need to join us on Zoom rather than YouTube, but of course, you don’t need to have your cameras on if you don’t want to! Do make sure you’re on mute for the recital itself, though.

Here’s the link: see you at 1pm GMT, Wednesday 3rd February!

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81870378916?pwd=TEZpVlg5NDlDV3BCSzRBK294b1F2QT09

Meeting ID: 818 7037 8916
Passcode: 968552

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