Twas the Night before Christmas a sold-out concert
By Sandy Lindsay December 18, 2023 It was a full house for the Southampton Concert Band’s holiday concert, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas’, held at Southampton Town Hall on Saturday, December 16th. From traditional Christmas music to newer selections not often heard, the band played a wide variety of music, but all centered around the holiday season. Also, throughout the music selections, were sprinkled solos. Dave Spaetzel, a band member of the brass section, performed a charming vocal selection, ‘Santa wants a Tuba for Christmas’.In addition, vocalist from Kincardine, Elaine Slade, presented a reading, the popular ‘The Night Before Christmas’. Southampton Concert band presents the Songs of Scotland By Sandy Lindsay April 12, 2023 The Southampton Concert band invites music lovers from everywhere to attend its Spring Concert at the Port Elgin United Church. “We will be performing all of your favourites of Scottish musical history on 27 May, 7-830 pm. Entry is by donation,” says director John Wills. Special guests for the evening will be two local pipers, Pipe Major Andy Mackenzie and Piper Steve Wolfe. Bruce County has a long Scottish heritage and with it, a long musical tradition. It even derives its name from James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine and who was the sixth Governor General of Canada. In an article that was written by A.R. (Archie) MacKinnon, who was Dean Of Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and who now lives in Guelph, he wrote that, “During the early pioneer period, Gaelic would appear to have been a dominant language in Bruce County. In certain areas, for example Ripley and Tiverton, services in the churches were conducted in Gaelic first and English secondly up until the early 1930s. Gaelic was also a common language of commerce and certainly it was a dominant medium for preserving the traditions of Scotland. A wide range of Gaelic songs, stories, piping tunes, recipes and folk sayings which had their origins in Scotland, flourished in Bruce County in the pioneer period and continued almost up to the present day and which are unique to the County.”
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