

history>Concerts in 1998
- Wednesday 16 December at St Peter's Church, Peebles, 7.30pm
- Tuesday 15 December at the Georgian House, Charlotte Square - a private
concert for members of the National Trust for Scotland
- Sunday 13 December at 6pm: St Giles
Cathedral - offering another varied and original programme of Christmas
music to an audience of well over 300.
- Saturday 12 December at Priestfield Parish Church
- Saturday 14 November: for the opening of the Christmas exhibition at
Out of the Nomad's Tent, 21 St Leonards Lane
- Julia's wedding, in Helensburgh.
- An evening concert in the Peebles Festival on Sunday 30 August, in St
Peter's Church.
- Saturday 29 August - the Edinburgh Mela at Meadowbank Stadium: a half-hour
set at 4pm.
- Wednesday 26 August: singing a few numbers in BBC Radio Scotland's live
broadcast of Mr Anderson's Fine Tunes from the Festival Theatre.
- Edinburgh Festival Fringe: at
St Mark's Unitarian Church (venue 125, not far from the Castle), on 25 and
26 August at 8pm - two lively concerts featuring festive music from the
Middle East, Africa and India and other songs from Scotland and far-flung
parts of Europe.
- Saturday 4 July: We travelled to Whithorn in south-west Scotland to perform
at the tiny Swallow Theatre - deep in the most beautiful countryside, converted
from a cow byre, powered by solar panels and wind generators, packed with
a very appreciative audience.

We loved it. The Swallow Theatre brings in all kinds of interesting performances,
and if you are ever in those parts you should try to get there.
We also stayed on (some of us pitched tents in the field next to the theatre)
to sing the next day in church at Mochrum, and to visit St Ninian's cave.
- Wednesday 24 June: back again in the astonishing architecture, ethereal
acoustics and wonderful atmosphere of Rosslyn
Chapel, with a new programme of religious music and secular pieces from
Scotland and France.
- On Sunday 21 June, as part of hugely enjoyable Fête de la Musique
at the Institut Français d'Ecosse
in Edinburgh: an evening performance from our repertoire of French and Scottish
songs. Excerpt included in BBC Radio Scotland's coverage of the event.
- Saturday 6 June, for the Annual General Meeting of the Franco-Scottish
Society (at Battleby in Perthshire) - a digestif of French and Scottish
songs to round off the luncheon.
- Saturday 30 May, presenting a set of songs from around the world at the
"Mela in May" - an outdoor multicultural arts festival. The event
was closer to "the Mela in the Monsoon" as the Edinburgh weather
turned cold and rainy for the weekend - but everybody had a good time anyway.
- Saturday 23 May, presenting five of our pieces in the Edinburgh PERFORM
competition at the St Bernard's Centre (Saxe Coburg Street, Edinburgh),
and winning three prizes!
- Friday 22 May, at a private function where Rudsambee and the Edinburgh
Royal Choral Union hosted two visiting choirs from Norway, Straumsnes Songlag
and Abildsø Bygdekor.
- Wednesday 20 April: at the Edinburgh Folk Club, as one
of the introductory acts for the Bushbury Mountain Daredevils, an excellent
Birmingham-based group.
- Sunday 5 April: at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery - a forty-minute
programme of songs from Europe about love and death, spring and winter,
praise and passion.
