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What’s On – Programme August to December 2022

13th July 2022 barbaradymock music, song, What's on

Nae Coffee Concerts – £5, pay at the door, and feel free to bring your own non-alcoholic drinks

2023

25th Feb 11am Scott Gardiner, singer

March 11th. 11am. Wighton Harpsichord’s 40th Birthday Concert

March 18^th 11am Carole & Alan Prior, singers

April 1st 11am Choras, 3 part harmony song

April 22^nd 11am Isla Ratcliff Band

May 20^th 11am Kate Badcock, flute, sax & Roddy Johnston, fiddle, guitar pipes, vocals, cajon

June 17^th 11am Bob Knight, singer

Aug 26^th 11am. Joss Cameron, singer

Sept 23^rd 11am. Here & There (Pauline Vallance and Jacynth Hamilton}

Nov 4^th 11am Brian Miller & Dougie McKenzie

Lunchtime Concerts

2023

Wed 1^st Feb, 2.15 – 2.45 Rosa Michaelson, fiddle, and Colin Allison, guitar

Wed 1^st March 1.15 – 1.45pm Ted Poletyllo, singer

Other events:

Harpsichord 40^th Birthday Festival! Throughout the year we will have, curated by Mark Spalding, occasional concerts by renowned players to celebrate the 40^th birthday of the famous Wighton Harpsichord, which was commissioned by Annette Heilbronn and built by Mark Stephenson.

Wednesday 21^st June: Make Music Day at the Wighton with The Doolichters, Morag Dunbar, the Wighton Singers and other guests.

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Saturday 11^th February, 3 – 5pm : St Paul’s Cathedral – Sheena Wellington with Bruce Davies and Friends. Tickets £12/Friends of St Paul’s £10 (includes tea)

Instrumental & Singing Tuition

Mixed Instrument Class Online with Morag Anne Elder: Saturdays 11am

Whistle Class @ the Wighton Centre with Helen Forbes: Saturdays 12noon- 1pm

Wighton Singers with Amy Lord: Tuesdays @ 2.15pm. (No need to be able to read music).

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Make Music Day!

13th June 2022 barbaradymock Scots song, Scottish, Scottish music, song

Tuesday 21st June, 2pm – 4.30pm: Make Music Day!

For the occasion, some of the best, most interesting and rarest of the Wighton Collection will be on display. There will be song from the Wighton Singers, tunes from Rosa Michaelson and, maybe, a surprise guest or two!

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Jess Smith @ The Wighton, Sat 18th June 11am

13th June 2022 barbaradymock cappuccino concert, song, storytelling

It is the Year of Storytelling and Friends of Wighton are delighted to welcome one of Scotland’s best to the Wighton Heritage Centre!

Jess Smith, storyteller, writer and fine singer, is our guest at the NaeCoffee (but feel free to bring your own) Concert on Saturday 18th June, 11am to noon.

Jess was raised on the road in her large travelling family of parents and seven sisters. Home was a single-decked Bedford bus; her ‘mansion’ on wheels. It served the family for ten years until it gave up the ghost in Lennie’s yard, Kirkcaldy. Two more years travelling with trailers and most of the family married off, Jess left her cultural map to settle with a young Crieff lad; Dave. Three chicks feathered their nest, grew and flew. It was then that Jess remembered a promise she made her father to write a book about Travellers in Scotland. However her knowledge of the community only covered her own travelling days in her wheeled mansion.

Memories were fresh so she retired at age 50 and learned basic computer and keyboard skills.

Jessie’s Journey was the result! Within months it was no 1 in Scottish biographies. Her love of sharing the culture was welcomed into the literary world, two more biographical books followed, a novel, a story collection and then ‘the book’ she promised dad; Way of the Wanderers.

She has travelled the world taking her story to wherever and whoever wants to hear it. She loves meeting people, sharing tales and also enjoys singing a few old favourite songs.

Doors open, 10.30am, admission £5.

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No Trees to Whisper: a song cycle for soprano and clarinet Saturday 26th March 2022 – at 2pm – on Zoom

17th March 2022 barbaradymock concert, music, Online, poetry, Scottish music, song

Performed by Turning the Elements: Frances Cooper (soprano) Joanna Nicholson (clarinet), with the support of Creative Scotland.

Friends of Wighton’s first online event, in November 2022, was Dawn Wood’s poetry workshop for this commission and we are honoured and delighted to be showing the World Premiere of No Trees to Whisper.

We are also thrilled to be Zooming to you from The Weaver’s Room in Verdant Works (www.verdantworks.co.uk) Dundee’s five-star rated textile museum. Thanks to Dundee Heritage Trust’s Deirdre Robertson, for making it possible, and Wendy Gammie, for making it work!

The concert is free but donations can be made at www.friendsofwighton.com

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Saturday 26th March, 2pm-3pm (waiting room open at 1.50pm

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Meeting ID: 850 3768 8867
Passcode: 255139

The inspiration for the project came from Dr Samuel Johnson and James Boswell’s famous diaries of their Journey to the Highlands and Islands in 1773 –

“ I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet…. Whether I spent the hour well, I know not: for here I first conceived the thought of this narration”

Poetry was commissioned from Iain Morrison, Dawn Wood and Haworth Hodgkinson, and music from Linda Buckley, Aidan O’Rourke and Gemma McGregor. Three very individual pieces from the poet/composer partnerships are woven together by interludes composed by Joanna, and nature photography by Frances to create a 40-minute film of evocative words, music and images.

Frances and Joanna have performed as Turning the Elements for nearly 10 years, taking this intimate combination of instruments to audiences around the country, and they performed as part of the prestigious Made in Scotland Showcase, curated by Creative Scotland, in the Edinburgh Fringe of 2019. This is the second major work they have commissioned.

www.turningtheelements.com

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Zoom Lunchtime Recital 2nd February 2022 with MoragAnne Elder and Elisabeth Flett

27th January 2022 barbaradymock concerts, fiddle, lunchtime concert, Morag Anne Elder, music, Scots song, Scottish, Scottish music, song, traditional

The Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 2nd February, 1.15pm -1.45pm will be given by mother and daughter duo MoragAnne Elder and Elisabeth Flett, playing fiddles and singing a selection of tunes to do with winter and the North.

Both, of course, are long time friends of the Wighton, MoragAnne currently running the mixed instruments class and Essa who has grown up coming to Wighton classes and whose musical career we follow with great interest and pride.

Essa is taking part in the Danny Kyle Open Stage online at the end of the month – her slot is on January 31st at 5pm on Celtic Radio and you can listen in here: https://www.celticmusicradio.net

The concert is free – donations can be made at Friends of Wighton – Scottish music in Dundee

and the link is

Topic: Wednesday Wighton Lunchtime concert
Time: Feb 2, 2022 01:00 PM London

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87820161927

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1st December Lunchtime Zoom Recital with Shona Donaldson and Paul Anderson

20th November 2021 barbaradymock concert, fiddle, lunchtime concert, Scots song, Scottish, Scottish music, song, traditional, traditional music

For our last concert of 2021 Friends of Wighton can’t provide the usual mincepies and chocolates but we are offering a very special pre-Christmas Zoom treat! Our guests are the award-winning traditional singer Shona Donaldson and the far-famed Tarland fiddler Paul Anderson MBE.

Shona Donaldson grew up in Huntly in a musical family, learning the fiddle and attending traditional music festivals including Strichen and Keith. As well as picking up the usual song repertoire, Shona also learned from bothy ballad singers like Jock Duncan and Geordie Murison. Soon, to the delight of her mentors she was winning prizes in the normally male–dominated bothy ballad world.

In 2015, Shona became the first woman to win the coveted Bothy Ballad Champion of Champions title to add to her 2009 Scots Singer of the Year award. She is also an accomplished songwriter.

Paul Anderson MBE is widely regarded as the finest fiddle player of his generation. Having found, at age five, an old French violin under the spare bed in his grandparents’ house, he has gone on from there to win all the major fiddle prizes including the Glenfiddich Scottish Fiddle Championship.

Paul has toured extensively here and abroad and is also well-known as a composer with over 300 works including many for film, television and theatre. His 8 solo albums and over 40 album with other musicians have received international acclaim.

Since lockdown began the couple, who recently celebrated their 14^th wedding anniversary, have produced 86 “Live from the Lounge” shows from the Tarland home they share with sons Hector and Roderick. These can be checked out on Paul’s Facebook page.

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Lunchtime Recital with Shona Donaldson, traditional singer, and Paul Anderson MBE, fiddle

Wednesday 1^st December 1.15pm – 1.45pm (Zoom available from 1pm)

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Meeting ID: 818 6713 9033
Passcode: 057619

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Lunchtime Recital with singer Alan Brown Wed 3rd November 1.15pm

27th October 2021 barbaradymock guitar, lunchtime concert, Scots song, Scottish, Scottish music, song

Alan Brown was born and raised less than half a mile from where the present day Wighton Library stands and Dundee has been a major influence on his career to date. Exiled from the city since 1970 he is difficult to pigeonhole: singer, songwriter, musician, composer, novelist, journalist, after dinner speaker, playwright, poet, standup, tour guide, and is probably best summed up as – an entertainer! After thirty years performing professionally in Scotland and overseas, it was the Wighton which hosted his first ever solo appearance in his hometown and we are delighted to welcome him back. Expect a varied programme of award-winning songs and stories, brand new material and a few surprises.

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting on Wednesday 3rd December at 1.15pm (link open from 1.05pm) with singer Alan Brown

Topic: Lunchtime Recital with Alan Brown, singer

Time: Nov 3, 2021 01:00 PM London

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Meeting ID: 840 6717 4263

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Zoom Recital with Robyn Stapleton, 6th October 2021 1.15pm

1st October 2021 barbaradymock concerts, lunchtime concert, Scots song, Scottish, song, traditional

On Wednesday 6th October at 1.15pm, Friends of Wighton will be delighted to present on Zoom the wonderful Robyn Stapleton, one of the finest singers of her generation. The reviewers have raved:-

‘Rich, characterfully lilting, warm and clear’ The List

Robyn is an award-winning singer and song leader who shares her talent and passion for traditional music with audiences and communities throughout Scotland and internationally.

‘Her warm sweet voice has a depth and colour that belies her youthfulness’ fROOTS

Don’t miss it – link below

Sheena Wellington is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Lunchtime Recital with Robyn Stapleton

Time: Oct 6, 2021 01:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time

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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86555688317?pwd=dnJPM3lOTDVUU1FFY1ptQWJmY1ErUT09

Meeting ID: 865 5568 8317

Passcode: 653876

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Recital with Choras, harmony singing trio, 1st September 1.15-1.45pm

24th August 2021 barbaradymock concert, harmony, lunchtime concert, Scots song, Scottish, song, traditional

And to kick off the new season we have Choras. Harmony singing trio Choras are Aileen Carr, Janice Reavell, and Barbara Dymock. Each is a much loved and respected traditional singer in her own right and together they excel. A concert with this acappella trio with their superb harmonies, eclectic selection of songs and sense of fun is not to be missed!