
Robert Burns was celebrated in grand style at New York's City Winery April 3, 2010. Mike performed Immortal Memory for Tartan Week 2010. A rockin' guid time was had by ane an' a'. Click on the photo for more fantastic shots from the gig by Brooke McGowan. See yeez this Friday night, if yer in New York, at the Abigail Adams Auditorium for the NY Caledonian Club's Pre-Parade Ceilidh wi' a repeat performance of Immortal Memory an' much much mair.
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Friday evening I met up with Brooke McGowan, a photographer friend of mine, at the Abigail Adams Auditorium in NYC for a fantastic evening of Scottish festivities courtesy of the New York Caledonian Club. ...more
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New York became a bit more Irish yesterday. At the National on E. Houston together with friends Kendizzle, a terrific Jamaican percussionist, and sweet Frances on vocals and shaker we played such greats as Dirty Old town, The Wild Rover, Fields Of Athenry and Wild Mountain Thyme. Songs Irish folk an folk the warl o'er lift there voices in sang an' merriment on occassions such as these. Hope you are having a wonderful day and continue to do so.
Lo'e an' licht.
Mike
The Spontaneous language of the heart first really touched my life when I met my good friend Rose through Myspace in 2007. I was in New York working on my first Robert Burns album (The Kilmarnock Edition) and she was in SE England doing the RT Burns Group. The very day we became Myspace friends I had been excitedly working on a new version of Red, Red Rose, And, by some dev'lish cantraip sleight, sweet Rose with the beautiful red, red hair came into my life and we have been fast Myspace, RT Burns and Facebook friends ever since. Then, this past summer Red Red Rose and I collaborated through FB with others from all over the world to put on a Robert Burns fund-raising concert in Glasgow Scotland, benefiting Yorkhill Children's Hospital and the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum. The friendship and relationship I have with Rose is so special and unique and would never have existed were it not for Robert Burns and the Spontaneous Language of The Heart of Red Red Rose.