Burns Night and the Top Table beckons....

The lone woman on the top table surveys her fate! This was a very jolly Burns Supper in aid of the Cornerstone charity in Dundee last week. I'm flanked by two of four Calder brothers -- the white-haired baby of the family, Finlay (heroic Rugby Grand Slam winning Captain of the 1980s) and his Tam O'Shanter delivering brother John. Beyond Finlay is Jim Brown the MC who put Fettercairn thoroughly on the map and Roger Benton the gutsy Ode to the Haggis man. Have you ever seen a more fluorescent piper than Jimmy Doig? A good time was had by all! I do really relish this annual ritual – it is a bit like Christmas with regular highlights and the occasional surprise. This year I find I've been haunted (in a good way) by Green Grow the Rashes O, sung brilliantly by Eddie Reader. But it's the version by Dundee's own Mike Marra with the utterly brilliant Mr McFall's Orchestra that keeps going round in my head. Partly because of Mike's intro where he observes this must be the only song that call's God a "she." Mike is on at Celtic Connections on Friday 3^rd Feb with the Average White Band. I'll be there as the Number One fan of Scotland's greatest male feminist. There are still some tickets at https://etickets.celticconnections.com/EventSeatBlockPrices.aspx

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