Blethers Spring 2017

27th April 2017

People’s Parish: Our Place, Our Story /Rachel Newton – Gender in Folk and Traditonal Music / In Memory: Lawrence Tulloch 1942 – 2017/ Farewell Welcome Stranger: Paddy Bort 1954 – 2017 / David Campbell – Orkney Storytelling Festival: The Small Festival with the Big Heart / Aaron McGregor – Nathaniel Gow and the Eighteenth Century Scottish Dance Band / David Francis – Connecting Themes at Celtic Connections / Wendy Woolfson – Out of Harm / Bea Ferguson – The Story of the Blue Butterfly: The Power of Storytelling with the Elderly / Bob Pegg – Film Review: Where You’re Meant to Be / Donald Smith – Book Blethers: Spring into Focus

TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SCIO SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SCIO SC052330) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SCIO SC045085). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. TRACS and the Forums have their registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. The Storytelling Centre is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).