For a true taste of Scottish culture and great night of entertainment, why not take your clients to a Scottish ceilidh?
From
Stripping the Willow to the Dashing White Sergeant, ceilidhs feature
traditional Scottish dancing (often referred to as Scottish country dancing) and Scottish music at its best. Even the most shy
participants soon join enthusiastically in the fun, and ceilidhs are
guaranteed to break the ice of any social occasion. Scottish Ceilidhs are now
extremely popular with young Scots, but they are great fun for all ages. London. New York. Glasgow. Edinburgh. Sydney. Rome. Hong Kong. Inverness. Stirling. Perth. Aberdeen. Global.
A wintry night in 1746. Somewhere in the icy swirl
of the Irish Sea a young man stands and gazes over the stern of a
creaking brigantine, staring into the blackness which smothers the
homeland he is leaving behind forever. A few others gather around him.
Another man produces a fiddle and as the wind bites down, Scottish
voices carry into the sea night, singing songs of love and protest,
loss and defiance, hope and despair.
In 1980 a 21-year-old former Glasgow University
botany student called Alan Horne launched a little record label called
Postcard. Run from a flat in West Princes Street, on a budget which
aspired to be shoe-string, Postcard introduced the world to the talents
of, among others, Edwyn Collins and Roddy Frame, and quickly became the
coolest independent label in Britain.
Cambuslang-born
Midge Ure has proved to be one of Scotland’s most enduring musical
talents. Starting out with Slik in the early 1970’s, he moved through
punk rock with ex-Sex Pistol Glenn Matlock’s band The Rich Kids, and
onto the New Romantic movement in the eighties, scoring huge hits with
Visage and Ultravox, before embarking on a hugely successful solo
career.
The faces are young – instantly recognisable, but
not yet fully-grown into what will become the four most famous faces in
the western world – and happy as they grin towards the camera in the
cold. One of them holds a thumb aloft as they pose beside the roadside
sign that proudly proclaims 'HASTE YE BACK!'
