"One man. One guitar. One incredible concert." A performance by Scottish singer and entertainer Carl Peterson, whether for a few thousand people or for a few dozen, is best described as a warm, everyone-involved, familiar evening-at-home experience. And home, in Greenock, Scotland, is where Carl Peterson was first introduced to music and song. He learned the traditional songs of Scotland, Ireland, and England, as well as contemporary music of the times, from family and friends alike. After learning to play guitar and banjo, Carl added American folk songs and storytelling to his repertoire, and took it all from Scotland to Canada, then later to America, via radio and television.

I had the joy of meet and hear Carl Peterson on Tartan Day (April 6th) at the San Antonio Highland Games. Carl is a delightful Scottish singer with albums upon albums of music to his name. And I thought we were prolific!!!

He has number of great albums and although he is fantastic Scottish singer, I love the concept of his most recent album, "Scotland Remembers the Alamo". With piper John MacGregor and fiddler Davy Crockett the men at the Alamo were often entertained by the songs brought to the New World from Scotland and Ireland. These songs were then used as tunes for ballads and stories written about the Alamo and the Texas revolution.

"Bonnie Dundee & Glendaural Highlanders" is an instrumental song performed on Highland bagpipes and fiddle and good dance tune. It makes me imagine those early Texans confined in the Alamo but dancing away to the brazen pipes and renewing the hopes of hopeless.

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Posted by Anonymous, Thursday, May 02, 2002.
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