{"id":1704,"date":"2013-06-30T22:29:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T21:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/?p=1704"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:51:25","slug":"my-first-meet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/my-first-meet-up\/","title":{"rendered":"My first meet up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"anne<\/a>I was quite nervous on my way to the first ‘Paths to Songs’ mentoring session with Anne Neilson, I think anyone would be to some extent. Your a young trad singer\/musician and your about to meet one of the great tradition bearers…<\/p>\n

Well Anne was absolutely lovely, and I got a kind welcome and was put at ease quickly.<\/p>\n

The meeting started off with Anne asking me why I wanted to be part of the project, and of course I answered that I wanted to learn and I think it’s important that traditional singing be kept alive by being passed down to younger generations like myself. I can see myself passing my knowledge down to others in the future too!<\/p>\n

We started chatting about various singers and songs, and I must admit there were many I hadn’t heard of! We listened to lot’s of CD’s and Anne showed me some of her wonderful books from the Child Ballad Collection and the Greig-Duncan Collection. So then came the tricky part, Anne asked me to listen to and evaluate a song, the singer you ask, well it was Anne of course. I listened intently and almost felt like I was back at school, worrying about getting the answers wrong. I don’t suppose there are right and wrong answers as such, each person hears what they hear. Anyway, Anne and I had rather different answers. Anne picked out more faults than I did, she was but 16 years old in the song I was listening to, and everyone is their own worst critic, but I thought it was great!<\/p>\n

I’ve come away from that meeting with lot’s of information and a pile of songs and different variations of them. I love how the story changes from one version to another.<\/p>\n

My homework tasks as set by Anne are to listen to and evaluate another track she has chosen, and to learn one of the songs to a melody I was given.<\/p>\n

I am very much looking forward to the next meeting, and I’ll let you all know how I get on with my homework…<\/p>\n

Linzi \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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