Chaski's 2004 UK Tour

Scrapbook of Chaski's Twentieth Anniversary Tour to England and Scotland
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Sunday 21 November 2004

10:30 a.m. Family Worship Service at St. Peter's Hextable, Kent, England
6:30 p.m. Holy Communion Service at St. Paul's Swanley Village, Kent England
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~stpeters/stpauls.html

Monday 22 November 2004

Conversation with the University of Cambridge Hispanic Society
8:30 p.m. Granta Bar, Cambridge, England
http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/cuhisp/
Horacio Tate

Tuesday November 23, 2004
Concert at the Fitzwilliam Museum 1:15 p.m.
http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/

Wednesday 24 November 2004

We had lunch in Aberbeen at the Auld Toon Cafe. I had mince and skirl pie--quite good!

Teatime Concert at University of Aberdeen
Elphinstone Hall, 5:15 p.m.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/

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Chaski with guest percussionist Lisa Nicol and University of Aberdeen host Pete

After a lovely post-concert curry dinner, we went to a nearby pub and had
Laphroig scotch whiskey the way the locals do, with a little cold water.

Thursday 25 November 2004

On the way to Edinburgh, we visited Adita's ancestral home of Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
It has changed a lot since her eighteenth century forebears were stocking weavers there!

As a matter of fact, on the pedestrian high street, we met an Edinburgh-based Andean band, Jach'a uru, setting up for some holiday cheer.

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In our two hours of power-sightseeing in Edinburgh, Adita visited the coffee shop
where J. K. Rowling wrote her first Harry Potter book. Nobody much cared about
the rags-to-riches author there, but Natalie Ceates in Girvan, a French native, did refer to Harry Potter.
We asked the others if she had a French accent, which for us was totally obscured by her strong
Ayrshire accent. They said she did have a little accent once in a while. She said that the one word
she kept having trouble with was "diagonally", which she said she could only say like
"Diagon Alley" as in Harry Potter.

Here's Chaski by the imposing Edinburgh Castle.

Photo by Mira Dickey

After driving through rain and wind, we arrived in the lovely fishing-cum-resort town of Girvan,
in south Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. Four members of the local Girvan Folk Club
joined us for a Thanksgiving Day feast. Shana and I ate haggis and pheasant!

Friday 26 November 2004

Chaski at Culzean (cull-EEN) Castle near Girvan.

Photo by Michael Ceates

Photo by Michael Ceates

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We played for the high school students at the Girvan Academy.
http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/girvanac/
This is the high quality photo you get when you put the camera on the street curb and set the timer.

We got our mug in the local Carrick Gazette!
http://www.carrickgazette.co.uk

Our competition for Friday night events was an Elvis Impersonator Contest at the Queen's Hotel pub!

We performed at the Girvan Folk Club which is celebrating its fortieth year!
The Queen's Hotel hosts the club concerts and sessions.
http://www.girvanfolkclub.co.uk/

At the folk club session following our concert, club members share Burns and other traditional songs.
We sang along and noticed that everyone there could quote Robert Burns poems and sing Robert Burns songs.

Davy Hunter Bobby Robb

Davy dresses up as Robert Burns at the Alternative Burns Night Supper. They all dress in period apparel.

Before we left Girvan for London, we had one more traditional Scottish breakfast!
The less-than-happy faces are really because Adita forgot to ask them to smile,
not that the breakfast was in any way less than delicious or that most of us had
crawled into bed at 1:30 am the night before.

Dan driving on the wrong side of the car and the wrong side of the road

Review from the Girvan Folk Club 1 Dec 04:
"Well firstly a thousand thanks for a great two days from myself and the rest of the club. We had a brilliant time and it was a fitting end to our 40th anniversary celebrations...Bobby is still raving about how busy the club was that night (50 % were new faces) We are sure you were the busiest guest night. We have also had great feedback from people saying how good you were. (ok you were bloody brilliant!!) The next time you are planning to come over, please let us be in your plans and maybe stay a day or two longer. (summer is far better, I kid you not). Best wishes and love from everyone over here."

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Chaski performs and records Latin American folk music that features traditional instruments, colorful costumes, cultural insight, Andean dances, and audience participation. Instruments include flute, zampoñas (panpipes), quena, harp, cuatro, guitar, charango, bombo, maracas, and more.

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Web site prepared by
Dan Dickey, April 1997
Maintained by Adrienne Inglis
updated 22 Feb 06
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