What a windy day! We checked out of the hotel late morning and were blown sideways all the way to Dumfries. Our concert was at the Theatre Royal, Scotland's oldest theatre, which has been staging productions for over 200 years. This theatre seats about 250, but regularly attracts top acts. My all-time favourite band Fairport Convention played a concert there the week before us.
Our Scotland concerts have been in a variety of venues, ranging from the Victorian splendour of the Aberdeen Music Hall where almost a thousand people came to see the show, the recently converted town hall in Rutherglen with its glass and stainless steel extension housing the bar and catering facilities, but with the wooden panelled concert room largely as original. Around 300 people (a sell out) came to see us there.
The Rothes Halls in Glenrothes is a modern complex with wide doors and easy access and state of the art equipment, and the large concert hall was well filled with Patsy Cline and country music fans who new all the words and were in good voice.
Tonight's show at Dumfries went very well, thanks to a friendly theatre crew who made us feel very welcome, and an enthusiastic almost full house who joined in and sang along.
All too soon it was over. We had a great night and everyone got stuck in to ensure that we got away in good time.
As we emerged from the stage door to load the van, we were reminded that it was Saturday night as a crowd of revellers passed by on their way from pub to pub.
Ah well, only 280 miles home!
We made good time down the motorway. Nina, Willie and Michael left us at Hilton Park Services to go down the M5 to South Wales and we continued on to Northampton. I finally got home at about 4.30. We now have a couple of days off before we meet up again in Weston-Super-Mare on St Patrick's Day.
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