THE SCOTS LANGUAGE SOCIETY/THE SCOTS LEID ASSOCIE
NEWS
NEW CD
Oor latest CD is noo available. Scotsoun SSCD 819 'Somewhaur in the Daurk' features some o the maist important an exceptional poesy o recent years. Rab gaes vyce tae thaim faw haed nae vyce durin the miners' strike o the 1980s fan the industry wis destroyed by Thatcherism.
illustration bi Les McConnell for Hard Times in Auld Reekie Toun
Commattee memmer, Wullie Hershaw and his band, the Bowhill Players hae released a new track cried Hard Times in Auld Reekie Toun, fit ye can listen till on their Bandcamp page - https://thebowhillplayers.bandcamp.com/track/haurd-times-in-auld-reekie-toun.
Wullie scrieved the wirds and music; Les MacConnell drew some braw line picters as illustrations. David Hershaw jyned wirds, picters an soons in a braw wee video ye can fin on their YouTube page. Wi digital photography bi Bill Paton. It's a thochtfu sang aboot peer folk in Edinburgh throwe the centuries, and maks reference tae "Hingin Judge" Braxfield, fa wis Lord Advocate and a nesty piece o work that pit doon the peer and ill-daen.