Burns Night 2020: A Burns Concert & Burns Night at the Museum
Published: 21 January 2020
Wondering how to celebrate Burns Night this year? Why not join the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and partners for: A Burns Concert (Thurs 23 Jan) or Burns Night at the Museum (Fri 24 Jan). All welcome!
A Burns Concert
Date: Thursday 23 January 2020
Time: 1.10pm–2pm
Venue: University Concert Hall
Alastair Savage (fiddle), Alice Allen (cello), John Shedden (reader) feature some of the fiddle tunes that inspired Robert Burns across his life.
Burns learned tunes from his native Ayrshire and Dumfriesshire, found others on his travels across Scotland and picked them up from published collections, especially those by famous fiddlers Niel Gow and William Marshall.
Alongside the timeless lyrics Burns often wrote to match them, John Shedden will let us hear what Burns had to say about these tunes in his song notes, tour journals, commonplace books and letters.
Burns Night at the Museum
Date: Friday 24 January 2020
Time: 7pm-10pm
Venue: Hunterian Museum
In recognition of 2020 being Visit Scotland’s Year of Coasts and Waters, the theme of this year’s Burns Night at the Museum is ‘Burns on Water’.
Join the Centre for Robert Burns Studies and the Hunterian Museum for an evening of music, poetry, crafts and song celebrating this theme – suitable for all the family!
A cash bar will be available as well as free whisky samples for over 18s.
This event is free, but booking is recommended: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/night-at-the-museum-burns-on-water-registration-86663012403
First published: 21 January 2020
A Burns Concert is part of the Music in the University Lunchtime Concert Series. For further details of Music in the University performances, please visit: www.glasgow.ac.uk/concerts