Burns Song Workshop: The Hammer and the Tongue
Presented by the Traditional Music Forum of Scotland
(Sat 23 Jan: 11am)
Join Seán Gray to learn about working life in Ayrshire and beyond through the eyes of Scotland's bard, Robert Burns. You'll explore songs describing the hard, physical work of folks around the time of Burns - the 'daurg'! What better way to explore this than in the language Burns grew up speaking, Ayrshire Scots.
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A nominee for Scots Singer of the Year at the 2024 Scots Trad Music Awards, Glasgow-based Ayrshire native Seán Gray is firmly established in the international folk community, as a session player, singer, and the recipient of a prestigious Celtic Connections New Voices composing commission. His debut solo record Fixed Assets digs into the politics and poetry of Ayrshire mining communities. 2027 will see the release of Gray’s second solo album, The Scots Tape. In a conscious reaction to the advance of AI in the international music recording scene, Seán has deliberately chosen to go back to a more traditional and analogue means of recording with the new album. Abandoning any high-tech, state-of-the-art digital techniques, he chose to record the new material on an old time-honoured Tascam Portastudio.
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Workshop
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£15.00 -
23 January 2027 -
120 minutes -
11:00 -
Scottish Storytelling Centre -
Training Venue -
Adults
