It is a month past, but the SFU Highland Arts Festival held the weekend after the band’s terrific performance at New York’s Lincoln Center is still fresh in my mind. I had several fits and starts for a post about the workshop but nothing I wrote captured the right tone. I could talk about the expert tuition given at the weekend of piping and drumming and dancing classes, delivered by a bunch of folks who are cluing you in to the way they “get it done,” so to speak. I could. I could do that. But the folks who were there already know those things, and more. What is really most striking and amazing is that there were dozens of enthusiastic regional pipers and drummers who did NOT take advantage of an opportunity like this.
And that still sticks in my craw 30 days later. Read More
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