I am unkind, I am unwise, but I'll hit you in the heart
Burns Supper at the Burren: despite the unwanted presence of hell-cold V.20, a success. We saw ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nineweaving and teenybuffalo and choco_frosh and multiple people not on DW. My throat has not even faintly stopped hurting, but my voice held up for "John Barleycorn" and various choruses, including a plangent "Loch Lomond" by someone whose name I never get even though he reminds me each year of Odysseus in the Iliad, unprepossessing until he opens his mouth. spatch and I went out in drizzling sleet and it was worth it. Now we are home and I am under an electric blanket and I feel this is the right place to be. P.S. There was haggis.
nineweaving and teenybuffalo and choco_frosh and multiple people not on DW. My throat has not even faintly stopped hurting, but my voice held up for "John Barleycorn" and various choruses, including a plangent "Loch Lomond" by someone whose name I never get even though he reminds me each year of Odysseus in the Iliad, unprepossessing until he opens his mouth. spatch and I went out in drizzling sleet and it was worth it. Now we are home and I am under an electric blanket and I feel this is the right place to be. P.S. There was haggis.
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Thank you!
You should know that one of my table neighbors who usually doesn't take much of an interest in folk-adjacent music got excited about your "John Barleycorn" and we pointed her to Gordon Bok.
That makes me very happy.
The "Loch Lomond" performer is named Art.
Thanks. I only ever see him at Burns Suppers!
My favorite up-tempo song ("Ramblin' Rover") got done a bit later.
I'm glad. I was a little sorry no one did "The Day We Went to Rothesay-O" as in past years, but I was not going to start it. We went home and fell over.