Episode 6 Santer

Welcome to the last programme in the series of Santer.

Coming up on the show,

Adam Dunlop tries his hand at archery in Ballymoney.

Right, you've one arrow there.

Do you think you could get it closer to the centre?

I'll take that bet, so I will.

After all their hard work,

Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett record Lilliburlero wi' the Kellswater Flute Band.

We've been working towards tonight and it's fallen apart a bit.

Mark Wilson reaches Londonderry

on the last leg of his musical journey in America.

You can imagine these families who were out working in the fields,

at night, after they'd brought everything back into the barn,

would have a little dance.

And the wee'uns of Glynn Primary School stage a short drama

about visiting US soldiers round Larne.

There's them two buddies again,

gawping at us like gulpins.

(BROAD AMERICAN ACCENT) Bud-dies?

But afore all that, what about some bluegrass from The Down and Outs?

# Wish that I was on old Rocky Top

# Back in the Tennessee hills

# Ain't no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top

# Ain't no telephone bills

# Once I had a girl on Rocky Top

# Half bear, the other half cat

# Wild as a mink and sweet as soda pop

# I still dream about that

# Rocky Top

# You'll always be

# Home sweet home to me

# Good ole Rocky Top

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# Once two strangers climbed old Rocky Top

# Looking for a moonshine still

# Strangers ain't come down from Rocky Top

# Reckon that they never will

# Corn won't grow at all on Rocky Top

# Dirt's too rocky by far

# That's why all the folks on Rocky Top

# Get their corn from a jar

# Rocky Top, you'll always be

# Home sweet home to me

# Good ole Rocky Top

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# I've had years of pent-up city life

# Trapped like a dog in a pen

# All I know is it's a pity life

# Can't be simple again

# Rocky Top, you'll always be

# Home sweet home to me

# Good ole Rocky Top

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# Rocky Top, Tennessee

# Rocky Top, Tennessee-ee-ee-ee! #

Detail on the line!

Detail commence shooting!

You know, I was in the Army Cadets

and I'd done some target shooting before, some clay shooting,

but I hadn't really done archery.

And I certainly didn't know there was a club in the town.

Chris, I'm local from Ballymoney and I didn't know this place existed.

It's a hidden gem.

We've been in circulation for about eight years as a club,

moving from schools to leisure centres.

We found this place by accident.

We've been here about three years, and you never knew we were here?

-Never, no.

-Even though we put it in the paper every week as well?

Ah, see, I don't read the paper!

THEY LAUGH

At what age would you start archery?

Well, we have kids in the club ranging from seven years of age

right up to 68, 70 years of age.

So there's a vast difference in the age groups here

on the shooting line together.

So this is a lifetime sport?

It can be.

Jordan, how long have you been at this?

Aye, well, roughly about two years now.

I'm in the Northern Ireland squad.

Is there many in this club on that team?

There's a good...

seven, roughly, in it.

-Are you going to show me how to fire one of these things?

-Aye.

If you put a foot at each side of the line.

Now bring it to your cheek so it touches.

Touches my cheek?

That wasn't very good, was it?

It was all right for your first time.

What about your first one?

My first one, I missed the target.

-That was good gripping.

-I got it in the red now.

This isn't as easy as it looked whenever I seen you doing it!

So how many arrows would you fire in a proper competition like this here?

I'd fire about 60 arrows, roughly.

-It's sore on the hands.

-Aye.

APPLAUSE

-That's her there!

-That's not bad!

50/50. Still not quite in the yellow.

I heard we had some Northern Ireland champions

in the shooting line today?

We do, yes. We've got four gents,

or ladies and gents, who are on the Northern Ireland squad.

The young lad here, only ten years of age, Northern Ireland champion.

-Only ten?

-Indoors and outdoors.

-That's amazing.

-So he's moved on

from the beginners' distances, ten metres and under for Under-Tens

straight back to the full distance for 10-years-old in one day.

And aim.

-There we go!

-There we go!

APPLAUSE

What's the distance for the adults in archery?

Adults have got to shoot at about 90 metres.

90 metres is the full distance of a football pitch.

What distance was I at?

-You were at seven metres, Alan.

-Seven metres?

-And in the gold, which is pretty good.

-A long way to go, then.

Just a bit. A bit of practice, you'll be OK.

Right, you've one arrow left.

Do you think you could get it closer to the centre?

I'll take that bet, so I will.

-Right so, bring it back to your...

-Robin Hood!

Aye! To your cheek.

Right, so. Just tiny wee bit right.

OK.

-There we go!

-Good man!

APPLAUSE

I think you won that bet.

-You're a brilliant coach.

-Thanks.

See that there?

That's class!

Over the last wheen of programmes,

we've followed the progress of Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett

after they took up the challenge to learn the fife and drum,

and then to record Lilliburlero with the Kellswater Flute Band.

Well, the nicht of the recording has finally arrived

and as Willie Hill puts the band through their paces, there's a nervous tension in the air.

Play what's there. I'll give you a two and a four.

Do the repeat for the time being, but we'll work out what we're doing

once we get all the other stuff going.

Basically, we're arriving here with a clean slate.

None of them have played with a flute band before.

We're going to have to work out links

between what the fifes do, what the band does,

then bring the fifes and drums back together

so there's an awful lot to be done in a very short space of time.

FLUTE PLAYING

Terrible!

I am. I havnae improved any.

Anyways, we'll get through it, sure.

We've been working towards tonight.

It's fallen apart a bit, but I'm sure

once we get down wi' the band, we'll maybe pull it through.

A room full of people, bit nervous

but no, it'll be dead on.

Should be OK, hopefully. Hopefully.

This is Bobby.

BAND: Hello, Bobby.

-And I met Bobby, what, about five weeks ago?

-That's it, Willie.

And Bobby has been very, very brave.

We've got our own flute band here, we've got the fifes going

and we've got the very big percussion instrument. So what we'll try and do

is tie everything together. Is Karl on his walkie-talkie there?

'I am.'

We'll try this. I don't think it'll be perfect first time.

'Willie, does either you or Bobby have a telephone switched on?'

-A telephone?

-Aye, it's me.

-'A mobile.'

-I have.

-'It's crackling away.'

It's the Ulster Orchestra ringing Bobby here!

LAUGHTER

"Are you free?"

BAND PLAYS: "Lilliburlero"

Lilliburlero goes back hundreds and hundreds of years

and, of course, it's one of the most popular tunes.

People might know it's played four times every hour

on the BBC World Service. It's their signature tune.

So it's very popular. Everybody recognises it, everybody knows it.

'Well done, boys. That's the one. Brilliant.'

Well done, boys. Brilliant.

With the track recorded now,

Bobby and Andy are keen to hear it played back.

BAND PLAYS

ANDY: Is this the last take, is it?

I'll use the previous one.

You'll use the first one? I was happier with the first one.

-Well, Bobby, have you starred yet?

-Absolutely!

-I'll let you hear that in a minute.

-It'll be brilliant.

So it was the Ulster Orchestra ringing, then?

Eh?

-Dunno.

-That's all right.

-Nothing wrong with that.

Sounds good, sounds good,

but we'll wait and see whenever, later on, how it works out.

We'll be back with Bobby and Andy afore the end of the show

to hear the whole track in all its glory.

Throughout the series, we have been with Mark Wilson

as he followed the trail of the Scottish fiddle style

from Ulster into Canada and then to the USA.

We're going to join him again now on the last leg of that journey.

I'm now on the last leg of my musical journey,

one which started in Donegal,

brought me across the Atlantic

to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia,

and from Halifax down to Boston.

I'm now heading north into New Hampshire

and to a town with a name very familiar to everyone back home,

Londonderry.

In April 1719, 20 Ulster-Scots families

who had emigrated to Boston

moved north into New Hampshire

to a settlement called Nutfield. Over the next 20 years,

they would be joined by 700 more Ulster-Scots.

One of the families who moved during that period

were Samuel Morrison and his wife and family.

They moved here in 1719

and in 1760, they built this house

that would become known as The Morrison House.

It's a typical house of the Ulster-Scots settlers of that era.

You can still imagine that these families out working in the fields,

at night, after they brought everything back into the barn,

they'd have a little dance to the fiddle and the banjo.

Lauren Rioux, you're a violinist,

a fiddle player, a singer. You're a little hard to classify,

but what do you see yourself as?

Well, that's a good question.

I'm probably a musician!

-That's a good answer!

-Thank you.

I would say that I am a musician

or string player that comes from the classical world

that has recently crossed over into more folk styles.

And I play a lot of American styles,

a lot of Appalachian music and some bluegrass

and I'm very influenced by Scottish traditions

and Cape Breton traditions.

So with a classical upbringing,

how did you get into playing folk music or Scottish tunes

or Cape Breton music?

I went to a teachers' convention

and there were a bunch of really amazing fiddlers there.

I heard them playing and fell in love with it and said, "This is the style,

"Where's this been? I need to start playing this kind of music."

At that point, I was probably about 20

and still in school, still in college.

And everybody said, "Well, you need to go to a fiddle camp."

So I went to a fiddle camp.

It was Mark O'Connor's camp and my first class was with Natalie McMaster

and she taught a bunch of Cape Breton jigs

and my heart was totally in there, I was in love.

Another very famous fiddle player out here, a Scottish fiddle player,

is Alistair Fraser. Have you come across Alistair?

I have, yes. I've been going to Alistair's camps,

specifically Valley of the Moon Scottish Fiddling School,

for about six years now. I adore him.

He is a force to be reckoned with.

His direction

and his adamant decision of making sure Scottish music is kept alive

and the people of Scotland's voices are heard,

is a really wonderful thing.

-You were over in the UK two years ago?

-Yes, in January 2010

for Celtic Connections in Glasgow

and it was such a blast. I really want to come back and visit you guys.

How did the audience in Scotland react

to a girl who grew up playing classical music in Portland, Maine?

Well, the audience was incredibly wonderful

and very warm and very welcoming

and I was there with a band I'd been performing with a lot

which is called Darol Anger's Republic of Strings

and that band and Celtic Connections, I thought,

were a perfect match for each other

because Celtic Connections is finding the thread

between all the musicians and bands that come together there

and I think we had a really good time.

-Lauren, thank you so much.

-Thanks for playing with us.

-Hopefully we can get together again and play a few tunes.

-I'd love that.

Maybe at Celtic Connections this year?

Yes, that sounds like a great plan! I'll see you there.

-Thanks, Lauren.

-Thank you, Mark.

STIRRING WARTIME MUSIC

Now a short story specially wrote by the wee'uns of Glynn Primary School.

It's about American soldiers stationed at Kilwaughter Castle trying to understand

the local sayings from about Larne.

You'll never guess what I heard in class, Carly.

-What?

-See Kilwaughter Castle?

Well, there was American soldiers there during the war.

-Americans?

-Get out of here!

No, no! It's true.

-They trained there before they were going to Normandy.

-Americans?

-Awesome!

-Bet all the local women probably loved them.

Afternoon, ma'am.

THEY GIGGLE

I bet when the Yanks went down to Larne,

they couldn't understand the locals.

Millie, are you coming over later to see the bull goin' out?

I think we're in trouble.

Yeah, I think they've taken a bull gun out!

Get it? Bull goin' out? They thought it was a bull-gun

instead of a bull going out to the field!

There's them two buddies again,

gawpin' at us like gulpins.

-Bodies?

-First guns and now bodies?

And what on earth does "gawpin" mean?

My gran tells me to stop gawpin' at people

out her living room window when I'm at her house.

Aye, well my gran tells me the Yanks were right friendly.

That's a mighty fine-looking bicycle you've got there.

Hey, boy, you're no goat's toe.

I always said them Yanks were quare and decent.

I bet the locals were sorry to see the Americans leave here.

Yeah, but we better leave now too.

A weethin more music now from Stonewall

and a lovely version o' My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose.

# My love is like a red, red rose

# That's newly sprung in June

# My love is like a melody

# That's sweetly sung in tune

# As fair thou art, my bonnie lass

# So deep in love am I

# And I will love thee still, my dear

# Till all the seas gang dry

# Till all the seas gang dry, my dear

# And rocks melt with the sun

# And I will love thee still My dear

# While the sands of life shall run

# And fare thee well, my only love

# And fare thee well awhile

# And I will come again, my love

# Though it were 10,000 mile

# Till all the seas gang dry My dear

# Till all the seas gang dry

# And I will love thee still My dear

# Till all the seas gang dry. #

This farmer boy was out for a walk

and he was coming walking down the country lane, down the country road.

And he turned the corner and he was met by a wild catastrophe in the middle of the road.

There was a horse standing grazing against the bunker and a cart lying upside down

and a load of hay and the wheels spinning.

And a boy about 12, sitting on the brow, crying his eyes out.

And the farmer says, "Boy, you're in a bit of a pickle here," he says.

"Don't cry," he says, "It's not worth crying over."

He says, "Come on down to the house and we'll get you a cup of tea

"And when we come back up," he says, "we'll get the whole thing onto its wheels

"and get the hay on and you'll be on your way and you'll be dead on."

But the whole way down to the house, and during the tea,

and the whole way back up the road, the wee boy kept lamenting the same thing.

"My Dad'll kill me, my Dad's bound to kill me," he says.

But they came on back up the road and the wee boy, he called out again,

"I'm telling you, my Dad's sure to kill me."

And the farmer boy says to him,

"Don't you worry about your dad," he says.

"Your dad will never know."

The wee boy says, "He will, he's below the load of hay!"

LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE

Well, here we are, down at Leslie Hill Farm with John Leslie,

lord of the manor, maybe.

Oh, I don't know about that!

I can't believe

that I live a few miles down the road and all this here's sitting on my doorstep,

all this horse-drawn machinery.

You're taking me for my special treat today,

in to see the family coach.

I'm delighted, it's just over here.

Well, this is the family coach that was used by the family up until

the time when my great-great-grandfather bought his first motor car.

So up until that point, it had been used by the family

from about 1850, when it was built, until, as we say, 1905-1910.

So it was actually in everyday use, or would it have been brought out

-for special occasions?

-Well, I think it would have been more for special occasions

because they probably would have used the jaunting car. This was a four-horse coach

so, you know, it's quite a palaver to get it out even though, at that time,

there was a coachman dedicated just to that job.

-Oh, wouldn't that be lovely!

-Times have changed.

Well, it's in very good nick, like.

-How did the restoration come about?

-Well, it turned out that a local man,

Albert McAleese,

we found out that he was interested in restoring it.

And he actually had done furniture restoration up until the point

when he started this coach, but he took about,

I think it was about two years, and ten layers of paint.

And, as you can see, the detail that he's come up with is really fantastic.

It was a real labour of love for him. For us, of course, it was absolutely fantastic finding somebody locally

who could restore it.

So we have Mr Leslie Senior here, looking very well.

Thank you, thanks very much.

That is mainly because I'm displaying our own tartan.

There we are.

-So this is the Leslie tartan?

-It's the Leslie tartan.

-Lovely.

And it's the tartan also worn by the King's Own Scottish Borderers.

Could you tell us a wee bit maybe about the family crest

-that's on the side of the coach?

-Yes, I could. I'll try and be as brief as I can.

It's the full coat of arms of the family

but the thing that is interesting really is the motto at the bottom,

"Grip Fast", which has always been our family motto for a long time.

And my ancestor, who was called Bartholomew, who came,

in fact, originally from Hungary, and who, in the 11th Century,

ended up in Scotland at Dunfermline with

Malcolm Campbell, King of Scotland.

He was very much in the King's favour.

His job was to escort the Princess Elizabeth.

He was responsible for her safety and she used to go on the horse behind him,

strapped to him by a belt, a big leather belt.

And on one occasion, they were going over some very rough going

and down across a stream.

And she very nearly fell off. And Bartholomew shouted,

because probably his head was at stake here, he said, "Grip fast."

And she said, and this is interesting,

"And gin the buckle bide."

So she'd obviously acquired a bit of the Scottish vernacular, which was nice.

So when he got back, he told the King his story

and the King said, "This shall be your motto, Grip Fast."

And he added two more buckles to the belt,

that's why we have three buckles in each quarter,

which I think is a nice story.

Well, John, it must be great for you as a family to have this coach,

but, of course, it's great that the folk from the town

and anywhere can come and see it in all its glory.

Yes, absolutely.

It's marvellous to have it restored to this standard

and done by a local man.

Well, sadly we have come to the end of the series.

Hasn't it just been great?

But before we go,

I think it's only right that we let Bobby Acheson and Andy Cornett play

us out with Lilliburlero, accompanied by the Kellswater Flute Band.

Cheerio.

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