Last night I spent 2 and a bit very pleasant hours at "Ivan On The Apron" - an open-air concert with Kirkwall City Pipe Band and special guest, Orkney-born musician, Ivan Drever (former member of Wolfstone).
The "Apron" in question is a paved area with 3 steps around the edge, leading up to the front door of St Magnus Cathedral.
It had been a lovely day yesterday, so I decided I would go along... and it was a fantastic couple of hours! I got quite close to the railings at the side of the steps, but there was no pushing or jostling anyway... Just a couple of hundred people, aged from mere babes in arms up to grannies and granddads in wheelchairs, enjoying the music... some standing, some sitting on the Kirk Green as the sun went down (and the midges eventually buggered off)...
The first photo was taken just after the performance started at 8pm, so it was still reasonably light then:
The "Apron" in question is a paved area with 3 steps around the edge, leading up to the front door of St Magnus Cathedral.
It had been a lovely day yesterday, so I decided I would go along... and it was a fantastic couple of hours! I got quite close to the railings at the side of the steps, but there was no pushing or jostling anyway... Just a couple of hundred people, aged from mere babes in arms up to grannies and granddads in wheelchairs, enjoying the music... some standing, some sitting on the Kirk Green as the sun went down (and the midges eventually buggered off)...
The first photo was taken just after the performance started at 8pm, so it was still reasonably light then:
This was a bit later, and you can see Ivan Drever at the mic, accompanied by one or two of the Pipe Band members:
This was a lot later, nearer 10pm, and it was dark by that time... although that didn't detract from the performance at all:
If you happen to have been there, and have stumbled upon this... Wasn't it a brilliant night?
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Err... from where I was standing, I couldn't see most of Broad Street.
It seems I was a bit out with my estimate of "a couple of hundred" people - according to one of our local newspapers yesterday, there was about a 1000 people there!
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