Poetry Cafe 5: Part 2 – “Should Scotland be an Independent Country? Yes or No?”

„Should Scotland be an independent couuntry? Yes or No?“
Part 2: From Medieval Scotland to Today

In this Forum we take a theme, often of current interest, and explore it critically. We illustrate the discussion with poems and music. A list of the pieces used is offered here.

Poems read and Music played:
1.’The Green Hills of Tyrol‘ (Scottish Pipes)
2. ‚Scotland the Brave‘ (Cliff Hanley)
3. ‚Scotland the Brave‘ (Pipes and Drums of the Royal Tank Regiment)
4. ‚Skye Boat Song‘ (Harold Boulton)
5. ‚A Man’s a Man for a‘ that‘ (Robert Burns)
6. ‚The Hebrides Overture: Fingal’s Cave‘ (Mendelssohn)
7. ‚Nightshift at the Plug Mill‘ (John Burnside)
8. ‚September 2014: Tha gaol agam ort‘ (Carol Ann Duffy)
9. ‚Speaking of Scotland‘ (Maurice Lindsay)
10. ‚Auld Lang Syne‘ (Robert Burns)
11. ‚The Land of the Mountain and the Flood‘ (Hamish MacCunn)