Rumba Catalana, anyone?

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Check out Peret, Catalan musician and friends: just ONE reason why Chez Rolo love being 'home from home' in Cat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iTEs-G7pB0

I have plenty more reasons------ and they're all about 'joi de vivre'

Pee Ess, general drift of the lyric is "He's not dead, he's partying"....

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Lovely!!!!! love seeing people obviously enjoying themselves

not just Catas & Ozzies though.

I posted this somewhere b4 however


Circular quay is a transport and tourist hub in Sydney City where cruise liners ferries and trains meet. Its always hoaching with tourists. To the East on one arm of Sydney Cove is the Opera House. To the West is "Tho Rocks" the oldest part of Sydney and a real touristy area To the South the ferry quays and a broadwalk. behind part is a grassed area I would hesitate to call it a park but people hang out there. This is where the buskers hang out including a lone piper in full regalia.

A few years ago some Scottish rugby tragics, of both sexes out following the Scottish Rugby team, about 15 or 20 some in kilts all with tartan scarves tammies etc.. They were om way from The Rocks to the Opera House, or more likely the Paragon Hotel(pub). Coming the other way were a party of about 30 Chinese of various ages and sexes going from Opera House to the Rocks.

The piper saw the Scots and broke into reels & strathspeys etc . Immediately the Scots broke into dance but sadly not enough ladies so the bold laddies grabbed some of the younger Chinese ladies who had been watching in wonder. The whole mob hooching twirling. skirts, kilts and ponytails flying arms in air and generally having a great time, with the Chinese lassies dancing as a enthusiastically as the Scots was a wonderful sight. The piper kept it up for about 10 minutes then ran out of puff. The 2 groups went on their respective ways. I noticed one Chinese lassie was wearing a tammy.

I knew they were Chinese as the South Koreans & Japanese Tourists tend to be more dignified and dont let their hair down, besides the guide had a stick with the Chinese flag on it for his group to follow

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Music's the universal language, Oz. It really is that simple.

Tonight I'm veering from the melancholy of the Estonian Philharmonic singing Arvo Part's Magnificat (as seen in Tallin Cathedral a couple of years back) to the pure joy of one of my fave clips: Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby in High Society.

SO much great music in the world.

Here's Frank and Bing for your listening pleasure: I chose this clip cos it's very 78 and not remixed for HQ audio: Play loud and ENJOY!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kq1JQUhwVQ

[ozneil]

Yes it is indeed!

This clip I know I have put on b4! and completely ompromptu

Its members of the Manly Warringah pipe band eo were in Glasgow and Edinburgh last year travelling home on the Manly ferry from an ANZAC day march a few years ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMYT_LNspqs

Note the lady with grey hair that appears just over half way thru' I have never seen a more Scottish face. She is completely rapt

THe ferry is a sister ship to the one they pass going the other way

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Yes, we see Warringah at Piping Live most years, Oz.

Hope you enjoyed Frank and Bing, I can kinda picture you dancing out of the room, glass in hand, in tribute?

Tonight I'm just back from Pishley, as Nota'd call it. We welcomed 42 North American festival bookers in for a five-day trip to showcase our latest trad music talent: in the stunning Paisley Abbey tomorrow night, then a trip to Mull for three nights of fab music and a trip to Fingal's Cave (they were all up for it tonight, brave souls that they are!).

Many mentioned looking forward to the daytime distillery trips before the concerts at night. (Oh, we're not daft!... and while I know these lovely folks will enjoy our hospitality, I also know they'll be buying up our talent for export this summer.

I think it's called a win-win. We have many industries in Scotland and culture is one of them. We are SO going for it, in the music sector