Sunday 28th July
A wet drizzly day and cool
Glasgow - Sightseeing, Kelvingrove Art Museum & Pat the Scottish Folk Music Musician
We just had to walk a short way down Ingram Street to George Square where the Sightseeing bus left from. A wet drizzly day but the bus was good and out of the rain with Neil Oliver doing the commentary - recorded, not live!
It was a great way to get an overall impression of the city of Glasgow.
We got off at Stop 16 The Kelvingrove Art Museum - an amazing place.
We had lunch first and then went to visit the Charles Rennie MacKintosh exhibition.
Reminded me of the Beardsley drawings that I used to have.
The May Queen by Margaret MacDonald was amazing
We then went to an exhibition of Scottish Folk Music by Pat
This was next door to The Laidlaw Gallery.
Quote from the Kelvingrove Museum:-
"Other major donors included Lord and Lady Laidlaw. The son of a Banffshire mill-owner, Laidlaw was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Leeds University and New York City's Columbia Business School."
Pat played really well for an hour and a half and we watched the whole thing. He was great!
Here he is playing Mary-Ann's favourite "Wild Mountain Thyme"
And then he played amongst many other memorable songs "Brochan Lom" from The Hebridean Weaving Lilt"
At 3:00pm there was an organ recital that we went to:
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