{"id":2317,"date":"2013-10-31T21:21:36","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T21:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2015-03-26T07:49:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T07:49:56","slug":"auld-grey-beard-drumdelgie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/auld-grey-beard-drumdelgie\/","title":{"rendered":"Auld Grey Beard &#038; Drumdelgie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thedoricfestival.com\/images\/doric_festival_logo.gif\" width=\"130\" height=\"88\" \/>First of all \u2013 apologies for the lateness of these blogs! I have been a busy bee these past couple of months! A holiday to Rome, starting my dissertation at University and the Aberdeen TMSA branch have had some brilliant concerts &#8211; Cookney and the Doric Concert in Midmar, so I had my committee member duties to carry out there.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Anyway, on to the interesting information! Geordie and I spent one of our evenings singing through Drumdelgie \u2013 a great bothy ballad. Geordie really plays around with phrasing in this which helps put the story across to the listener. I did struggle with this and tune initially but with plenty of practise I am getting to grips with it now!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In our next meeting, Geordie taught me all about the Auld Grey Beard! A funny traditional ballad about a young girl whose mother tries to get her to court an old man. The girl, however, is having none of it! She tells her mother if he is that good \u2013 you kiss him yourself! I love this song because it is refreshing to learn a traditional ballad that isn\u2019t about murder or heartbreak!<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday (25th Oct) I competed at the Bothy Ballad competition in Turriff but unfortunately I wasn\u2019t placed on this occasion (Well Done Hector Riddell) It was not a disappointing night as there were fantastic songs being sung throughout and in particular Geordie\u2019s rendition of Drumdelgie nae mare \u2013 so that is what we will work on next time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news,uncategorized\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1383254496\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Auld Grey Beard &#038; Drumdelgie\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all \u2013 apologies for the lateness of these blogs! I have been a busy bee these past couple of months! A holiday to Rome, starting my dissertation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1],"tags":[49,43],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-natalie-chalmers","tag-paths-to-songs","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}