Spring 2010

(Photo: Spring sunset from my cottage)

It's so good to be able to title a blog as Spring! Caim were in Oxfordshire recently for a fund raising concert in Deddington and spring was definitely in the air down there with new born lambs, daffodils and crocuses everywhere. We're still at the snowdrops and crocuses stage in Scotland but we're getting there.

Just as well for Ciaran and myself - we didn't cope with the last burst of winter weather up here very well. When the snow re appeared it came with a vengeance and despite weather warnings (which no-one believed) Ciaran and I found ourselves stranded in Inverness where we were on a music in hospitals tour. All major roads and train routes out of Inverness were blocked and Ciaran eventually made it back to Glasgow via a long, slow journey down the east coast while I had to wait in Inverness even longer for new tyres to arrive for my car which had had a flat in Kingussie. Thanks to the music in hospitals team in Edinburgh though we only missed one gig - they worked hard for us finding new concerts in Inverness to replace the ones we couldn't get to in the snow.

Caim's Milton Keynes Burns weekend at the Well at Willen was postponed due to the winter weather and will now be a workshop and ceilidh at the end of May instead. We're planning on a possible fund raising concert or two en route in Norwich.

Several extremely successful fund raising concerts for Caim's next Thailand trip were also organised by Jacynth in Northern Ireland in February and we have now booked our flights to Thailand and will be back in Mae Sot and also visiting Umphang orphanage November 1 - 22nd. Thank you to everyone who has supported us in this venture so generously.

Caim's USA tours are now going ahead in 2011 - Florida and Wisconsin, back to back, to save a double trip across the pond. We hope to be in Florida late February/early March and to be in Wisconsin for a couple of weeks including St Patrick's Day. For those of you on my facebook page you will have gathered that I had quite a St Patrick's night to recover from in Scotland this year - back to work in 2011 - ah well!

On a final note it's that CD of Al's again - yes, I've proof read the cover notes and "Full Vision" is finally on it's way to the printers!

As always - thanks for your support for our music.

God bless

Heather