Finding The Other Side of Sorrow (A poem for Scotland)

[2banon]

Recorded some several years ago by my friend, teacher, mentor the great Scottish Fiddler, Alasdair Fraser.. we agonize with incomprehension the defeat for independence.

Finding The Other Side of Sorrow:

[djean111]

1. Beautiful.

And now Scotland will continue to be laughed at by Cameron and his ilk.

[2banon]

2. Yes, indeed. Simply Incomprehensible independence went down to defeat.

[msongs]

3. defeated because the majority of people didnt buy the propaganda? or did buy it nt

[djean111]

5. When 44% of the voters in a country vote to leave, that, IMO, is significant.

Wonder if Cameron is going to stop laughing long enough to make good on promises of more autonomy.

[2banon]

9. Cameron seems like any other tool for the 1% - they're not in the habit of making good on promises

oh he might throw carrot.. no doubt tainted with a bit of poison. not enough to kill, but not enough to nourish either.

[2banon]

7. As Alasdair put it:

..

A great opportunity for social change has been missed. A great opportunity for Scotland to lead with a new paradigm for democracy in the 21st century has been handed back to an unworthy, out of touch Westminster.

Scotland the Not-so-brave... Scotland the mis-informed and mis-led by an unbelievably biased media/press machine. We now know what we are dealing with. There is hope in that knowledge and change to be made.

[marions ghost]

4. Many people can't handle change

--we certainly see it in this country. They will wait and suffer and wait and suffer--til way past the point that it would be easier to accept change--the kind of change that would help them.

So you have that working against any move to reconstruct the system. And we all know systems, like cars and bodies, need reconstructive surgery at times...

[2banon]

8. Well Said..

[2banon]

6. Here's a piece Alasdair wrote several years ago: Theme for Scotland

Here's another piece Alasdair wrote we learned and performed several years ago, back in the 90's if memory serves.

This recording is from Dawn Dance he along with the piper Eric Rigler

[marions ghost]

10. Wow that Theme for Scotland is just

too bloody beautiful ...

Captures the mood for today. Yes, an opportunity missed.

But not forgotten.

[2banon]

11. I agree.. What he attempted to capture and express in this piece

is a sense of the Centuries Old Struggle for Independence. The longing, yearning and expectation that should one day be actualized.

Alasdair is as prolific a composer as he is a musician.