was in scotland last week, stayed at my pal’s place sandy brechin.
http://www.brechin-all-records.com/
hehe..
get this, we went to dunoon for a session, we got as much free beer as we liked and even got paid!
i got 50£
100 bucks? Cool. The last time I was at a session I got free beer too. They gave me enough to pass out so I couldn’t play and ruin their session.
Which you have already declared to the taxman, right? 
He just did-- right here! They hang out on this board looking for people posting brag messages about their busking. Word to the wise…
I’m sure I could get paid to play in a session too, and way more than what you got amar. But that’s only because they’d be paying me NOT to play 
Really! This is an excellent method to raise funds! I can extract huge sums just by carrying a whistle with me–they’ll give any amount if I’ll just promise not to play.
I personally find they’re willing to pay a little more if I wear a little black Speedo when I make my extortion demands
Too much information!!!
Thank goodness this isn’t in the Chiffers’ Photos thread.
I am thinking of playing in front of my friend’s store in Leavenworth, WA. Some kid goes and plays his accordian and makes $200 a day!
Chee, I can make a living off that…too bad Leavenworth is a couple hours away. If I whistled in my city I’d probably get arrested for disturbing the public or something…since my city is so…shall we say…anal?
Dunoon is a blast! There used to be a U.S. naval base there, and when I graduated from high school in 1990 I went over there to visit a friend, a fiddler and guitar player. He brought me to play at a bunch of great sessions and dances, including a barn-raising party and a dance in a Protestant church. The church didn’t allow alcohol, so we were passing around teacups of whiskey.
Seems like there were a lot of musicians around the town back then, I think the only one I remeber was box player named Graham?
Justine
just for the sake of putting this right. Free beer at the session in Aberfeldy, 50quid for the session in Dunoon.
“Fly me to Dunoon…”
Slan,
D.
Oh dear, I think I just busted my gut!
Can’t you just hear it?
That was rich, Dubhlinn! Very good!
Thank you all
Some years ago I saw a TV show about a young Scottish Jazz singer who came from Dunoon.Her Mom was a Scot and her Dad was an American service man who was stationed in the US base there.
She was a very fine interpreter of popular Jazz songs and her theme song was -yes,you’ve got it, Fly me to Dunoon.
She had all of the lyrics changed around - almost a full re-write,to reflect her longing for a Father she had never seen.She was being hailed at the time as the new whoever was the last one.
I often wondered what happened to her,probably ended up on the cruise line circuit.
I did not have enough time today, before work , to post up the full story
Slan,
D.