Burns Night Celebration - Burns Monument Centre

 

Burns Night Celebration

 

Friday 25th January, 7.30pm, Burns Monument Centre, Kilmarnock

 

Join us for a Burns Night celebration in an evening of Scottish songs with Mezzo-soprano Anne Lewis and musician Bill Taylor.

 

The performance will include a programme of traditional Scots songs and airs, many of which are taken from the Scots Musical Museum, by James Johnson and Robert Burns, published between 1787 and 1803.  Other pieces in the recital will come from a variety of historical sources and include different melodies, lyrics and settings from 17th-18th century collections for lute, mandore, fiddle and keyboard.

 

There will be plenty of familiar Burns favourites and also some less well-known, along with some beautiful Scots airs played on the Highland wire-strung clarsach and a copy of an early 18th-century gut-strung hook harp.    

 

Tickets priced £10/£8 concession are available from the Dick Institute on 01563 554300 or the Burns Monument Centre on 01563 576695.

 

 

 

Ross McGregor

Heritage Services Officer

Library, Registration and Information Services

 

Burns Monument Centre

Kay Park, Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire

KA3 7RU

01563 553655

 

Blog http://bmc.burnsmonumentcentre.co.uk/

 

Website www.burnsmonumentcentre.com

Kilmarnock Periodicals

Kilmarnock Periodicals (1815 – 1900) is one of the Burns Monument Centre’s Special Collections.

This is an almost complete collection of the periodicals printed in Kilmarnock from 1816 to 1900 (it also includes The Ayrshire Magazine and West Country Monthly Repository, which was printed in Irvine in 1815).

http://bmc.burnsmonumentcentre.co.uk/discoveries-in-our-kilmarnock-periodicals/




The early periodicals in particular provide an interesting view of the town’s literary scene at the time. Most of them contain original poems, stories, essays and reviews by writers with some connection to the area. For example, the Kilmarnock Annual and Western Literary Annual (1835) contains two songs by John Galt.
Some of the main printers of the town ventured into periodical printing at some stage. For example, H. Crawford (who was the town’s next printer after John Wilson left for Ayr), printed The Ayrshire Miscellany from 1817. A little later, James McKie printed a few titles including The Ayrshire Inspirer (1839). D. Brown and Company, who printed lots of Burns books from the 1880s until the 1900s, produced the Burns-inspired Auld Killie (1893 – 1898).

"Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect"

Looks like this could be a great evening! 

Chiefly In The Scottish Dialect

 

Burns Monument Centre Sat 28^th July, 2012 - 7.30 – 9.30pm

Celebrating the publication of Robert Burns’s ‘Kilmarnock Edition’

The Burns Monument Centre will host an evening of talks, poetry and music in celebration of Robert Burns’s most famous work, “Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect”.

Zoe Strachan, Reader in Residence at East Ayrshire Libraries, along with Library staff, decided to celebrate the significance of the literary masterpiece by hosting an event to mark the anniversary of its publication.

The evening will kick off with Professor Alan Riach giving an insight into the Kilmarnock Edition and its significance in contemporary Scottish Literature.

Poet Cheryl Follon will entertain the audience with readings from Burns as well as her own works. The celebration will culminate with music from actor Tam Dean Burn’s band, ‘The Bum-Clocks’ (Scots for “a flying summer beetle”). Their unique take on Burns songs mashes together his work with contemporary legends such as Iggy Pop and Bob Dylan, bringing a raw rocky intensity, while staying true to Burns’s earthy Scots dialect, humour and passion.

The event has been sponsored by the Jefferson Restaurant which will be providing nibbles at the end of the performance.

Tickets cost £10/£8 concession and are available from the Dick Institute 01563 554300 and the Burns Monument Centre 01563 576695

Heritage Services Officer at Burns Monument Centre

We've just received the following communication from Ross McGregor, the new Heritages Services Officer, working out of the Burns Monument Centre.  I have attached his e-mail in full:-

I’d like to introduce myself as the Heritage Services Officer at the Burns Monument Centre, Kilmarnock. I started in this new post a few weeks ago and I’m keen to establish links with local history groups and other organisations. My role at the Centre is to develop the services offered here, both to historians / researchers and to the wider community. As well as libraries and literature I have a strong background in education, which will play a key role in how I develop the heritage service.

I’ve had a look at your excellent website and see you’ve flagged up the SCRAN taster sessions taking place here and at other library venues. I plan to hold far more events here, which will hopefully promote access to local history, family history and archive resources for a wider audience. We already have some events taking place in July / August that may also be of interest to your members – on 28^th July we have ‘Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - an evening of poetry and music celebrating the anniversary of the Kilmarnock Edition’ featuring Prof Alan Riach, Zoe Strachan, Cheryl Follon and Tam Dean Burn’s band (I’ve attached more info below). I’m also planning workshops that allow participants to delve into the archive materials we have, starting with an Archive and Creative Writing workshop with Zoe Strachan and Christine Ewing (Principal Archivist) on Wednesday 15^th August. I’m developing a blog for the Centre which will include information on events and workshops, but also snippets of local history and images. I began a series a displays of local history and archive material for visitors to browse and I’m hoping to include informal talks and presentations as part of this. The next display will be based around the national My Favourite Places project (Scottish Book Trust / BBC) with a particular focus on our local literary heritage.

I’ve established links with the Robert Burns World Federation and the National Library of Scotland, which will help to promote the significance of our collections. I want to ensure the historical collections and rare books we hold here in Kilmarnock are given proper recognition.

I hope my introduction is of some interest to the Group. If you’d like to have a chat about the developments at the Centre, what we can offer and how we could work together, please just get in touch.

Kind regards,

Ross.

Ross McGregor

Heritage Services Officer

Library, Registration and Information Services

Burns Monument Centre

Kay Park, Kilmarnock

East Ayrshire

KA3 7RU

01563 553655

www.burnsmonumentcentre.com