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Friday August 26 2011
Canongate Kirk, 153 Canongate, Edinburgh
Another great venue. In the audience was Tony Ireland, well known folkie from Stirling and Edinburgh in the 1970s.
The heads were in a local shop window:
Workshop – thanks for the great feedback!
Martin Baillie’s painting of The Whistlebinkies is the fourth in a series inspired by a concert given by the group in the early 1990s in St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow. It was completed in August 2009. See August 1990.
Public performance of John Cage’s A Scottish Circus. See : http://www.rbge.org.uk/the-gardens/edinburgh/inverleith-house/archive-exhibitions/inverleith-house-archive-main-programme/john-cage-and-merce-cunningham
The perfromance was followed by the audio and video recording of the Whistlebinkies playing this and other Cage works.
The sound assistant took the following pictures lifted from her Flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/people/pamsmooth/
Playing John Cage’s A Scottish Circus at a reception to open a Cage exhibition.
Eddie McGuire
Part of the Clanjamfry: A Scottish Festival event.
Last Night of the Scottish Proms – with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conductor Owain Arwel Hughes.