0:00:02 > 0:00:04Great poets have always beguiled and inspired us
0:00:04 > 0:00:06and none more so than Scotland's favourite son, Robert Burns,
0:00:06 > 0:00:09whose memory we're here to celebrate tonight.
0:00:09 > 0:00:13His appeal is global but it would be difficult to find anywhere
0:00:13 > 0:00:17in the world with a stronger connection than here in Ulster.
0:00:17 > 0:00:20The audience have been called to take their seats.
0:00:20 > 0:00:22The Ulster Orchestra have tuned up.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25Backstage, the artists, including Scottish Singer of the Year,
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Emily Smith, are making final preparations.
0:00:28 > 0:00:30With Emily, we have Eilidh Patterson,
0:00:30 > 0:00:32we have the Berna Folk Band,
0:00:32 > 0:00:36we have Marcus and Matthew Wenlock, World Champion drummers,
0:00:36 > 0:00:38and we have the Markethill Dancers.
0:00:38 > 0:00:42Welcome to Burns Night at the Waterfront Hall.
0:00:45 > 0:00:51PIPE MUSIC
0:02:42 > 0:02:49APPLAUSE
0:02:53 > 0:02:56Ladies and gentlemen, please give an Ulster welcome
0:02:56 > 0:03:01to Scots Singer of the Year, Emily Smith.
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Good evening.
0:03:18 > 0:03:21We're going to start with a song called The Plooman,
0:03:21 > 0:03:22which has a chorus.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24You're very welcome to join us but it would take me
0:03:24 > 0:03:27a long time to teach it to you, so we haven't got time for that.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29We'll just have to go for it.
0:03:37 > 0:03:40# The plooman, he's a bonnie lad
0:03:40 > 0:03:43# His hairt is ever true, jo
0:03:43 > 0:03:46# His garter's knit below the knee
0:03:46 > 0:03:50# And his bonnet, it is blue, jo
0:03:50 > 0:03:53# Then up wi' and all my plooman lads
0:03:53 > 0:03:56# Hey my merry plooman
0:03:56 > 0:03:59# O aa the trades that I dae ken
0:03:59 > 0:04:02# Commend me tae the plooman
0:04:02 > 0:04:05# My plooman, he comes hame at nicht
0:04:05 > 0:04:08# He's often wet and wearie
0:04:08 > 0:04:11# Take aff the wet, put on the dry
0:04:11 > 0:04:14# And go to bed my dearie
0:04:14 > 0:04:17# Then up wi' and all my plooman lads
0:04:17 > 0:04:20# Hey my merry plooman
0:04:20 > 0:04:24# O aa the trades that I do ken
0:04:24 > 0:04:27# Commend me tae the plooman
0:04:27 > 0:04:30# I will wash my plooman's sark
0:04:30 > 0:04:33# And I will wash his o'erlay
0:04:33 > 0:04:36# I will mak my plooman's bed
0:04:36 > 0:04:39# And cheer him late and early
0:04:39 > 0:04:43# Then up wi' aa all my plooman lads
0:04:43 > 0:04:45# Hey my merry plooman
0:04:45 > 0:04:48# O aa the trades that I dae ken
0:04:48 > 0:04:51# Commend me tae the plooman
0:05:18 > 0:05:21# Well I've been east and I've been west
0:05:21 > 0:05:23# And I've been at St Johnstone
0:05:23 > 0:05:27# But the bonniest sicht that e'er I saw
0:05:27 > 0:05:30# Was my plooman laddie dancin
0:05:30 > 0:05:33# Then up wi' and all my plooman lads
0:05:33 > 0:05:36# Hey my merry plooman
0:05:36 > 0:05:39# O aa the trades that I dae ken
0:05:39 > 0:05:42# Commend me tae the plooman
0:05:42 > 0:05:45# Snaw white stockings on his legs
0:05:45 > 0:05:48# Siller buckles glancing
0:05:48 > 0:05:51# A guid blue bonnet on his head
0:05:51 > 0:05:54# And oh but he was handsome
0:05:54 > 0:05:57# Then up wi' and all my plooman lads
0:05:57 > 0:06:00# Hey my merry plooman
0:06:00 > 0:06:03# O aa the trades that I dae ken
0:06:03 > 0:06:07# Commend me tae the plooman
0:06:20 > 0:06:23# Commend me tae the barn yard
0:06:23 > 0:06:26# And the corn mou man
0:06:26 > 0:06:29# Oh, I never got my coggie fou
0:06:29 > 0:06:32# Til I met wi my plooman
0:06:32 > 0:06:35# Then up wi' and all my plooman lads
0:06:35 > 0:06:39# Hey my merry plooman
0:06:39 > 0:06:42# O aa the trades that I dae ken
0:06:42 > 0:06:45# Commend me tae the plooman. #
0:07:15 > 0:07:19APPLAUSE
0:07:21 > 0:07:23When I first became a traditional singer,
0:07:23 > 0:07:25interested in traditional songs,
0:07:25 > 0:07:28I kind of ran in the opposite direction of Burns' work
0:07:28 > 0:07:30because I thought I knew all there was to know about him,
0:07:30 > 0:07:32I thought I knew everything he had written.
0:07:32 > 0:07:37But it wasn't until 2009, his 250th anniversary
0:07:37 > 0:07:41that myself and Jamie McLennan decided to do something
0:07:41 > 0:07:44to mark that occasion so we recorded an album
0:07:44 > 0:07:46of lesser known works by Burns
0:07:46 > 0:07:48and particularly trying to source songs that he wrote
0:07:48 > 0:07:52within Dumfriesshire or about people from his time in the south-west.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55I just had this whole new appreciation for him.
0:07:55 > 0:07:59To have died so young, he wrote so much.
0:07:59 > 0:08:02You seem very comfortable in front of an orchestra
0:08:02 > 0:08:05as well as an audience, how is that for you?
0:08:06 > 0:08:09I'm good at acting!
0:08:09 > 0:08:11It's fantastic, this is the first time I've performed
0:08:11 > 0:08:14with an orchestra, so it's really exciting
0:08:14 > 0:08:17and it really puts a whole new dimension onto your performance
0:08:17 > 0:08:21and to hear songs that myself and Jamie have done
0:08:21 > 0:08:24just as a duo, having orchestration behind it is really fun.
0:08:24 > 0:08:27We're going to carry on with a song called the Silver Tassie.
0:08:27 > 0:08:31This one Burns wrote about a sailor boarding a ship,
0:08:31 > 0:08:34leaving from the Port of Leith just outside Edinburgh,
0:08:34 > 0:08:38and he calls for one final toast farewell to his sweetheart, Mary,
0:08:38 > 0:08:40so it's called the Silver Tassie.
0:08:46 > 0:08:54# Gae bring to me a pint o' wine
0:08:54 > 0:09:01# And fill it in a silver tassie
0:09:02 > 0:09:08# That I may drink afore I go
0:09:09 > 0:09:17# A service tae my bonnie lassie
0:09:17 > 0:09:24# The boat rocks at the Pier o'Leith
0:09:24 > 0:09:31# Fu'loud the wind blows frae the ferry
0:09:32 > 0:09:39# The ship rides by the Berwick-law
0:09:39 > 0:09:47# And I maun leave my bonnie Mary
0:10:02 > 0:10:05# The trumpets sound
0:10:05 > 0:10:09# The banners fly
0:10:09 > 0:10:13# Oh, the glittering spears
0:10:13 > 0:10:17# They are ranked ready
0:10:17 > 0:10:20# The shouts o war
0:10:20 > 0:10:24# Are heard afar
0:10:24 > 0:10:31# And the battle closes deep and bloody
0:10:32 > 0:10:38# It's not the roar o sea or shore
0:10:40 > 0:10:46# Wad make me langer wish to tarry
0:10:47 > 0:10:51# Nor shouts o war
0:10:51 > 0:10:56# That's heard afar
0:10:56 > 0:10:59# Oh, it's leaving thee
0:10:59 > 0:11:02# My bonnie Mary
0:11:02 > 0:11:09# It's leaving thee
0:11:10 > 0:11:16# It's leaving thee
0:11:22 > 0:11:26# Oooh, oh
0:11:26 > 0:11:30# Oooh, oh
0:11:30 > 0:11:35# Oooh, oh. #
0:11:39 > 0:11:44APPLAUSE
0:11:44 > 0:11:48I'm Matthew and I'm the Juvenile 2 MSR world champion.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50And I'm Marcus Wenlock
0:11:50 > 0:11:54and this year I won the Juvenile 3 MSR world title.
0:11:54 > 0:11:59And Matthew, how do your friends react to seeing you on the telly
0:11:59 > 0:12:01and seeing you winning world championships
0:12:01 > 0:12:03and seeing lines of girls outside your house,
0:12:03 > 0:12:05screaming like it's One Direction?
0:12:05 > 0:12:08I think they're a bit jealous.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11They always taunt me at school.
0:12:11 > 0:12:14Like, "You're always doing this, you're always doing that."
0:12:14 > 0:12:17Tell me about the track that you're playing tonight.
0:12:17 > 0:12:18It's a Bulgarian folk dance
0:12:18 > 0:12:21and it was wrote by Gavin Bailey,
0:12:21 > 0:12:22who passed away last year.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25It's quite complicated,
0:12:25 > 0:12:30as there's different changes in time signatures
0:12:30 > 0:12:33which means there needs to be a lot of thought to what you're playing.
0:12:33 > 0:12:35It's quite complicated to what we usually play.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Marcus, this is a very important question
0:12:37 > 0:12:40and a lot of people want to know this.
0:12:40 > 0:12:42Who is the best drummer between the two of you?
0:12:42 > 0:12:45Well, that's for everybody to find out tonight.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Matthew and Marcus Wenlock
0:12:47 > 0:12:51are going to engage in a drum battle to the Buschimich track.
0:12:51 > 0:12:54These world title winning brothers made drumming history
0:12:54 > 0:12:58by becoming the first brothers to win world titles in the same year,
0:12:58 > 0:13:02and both brothers played their way to getting perfect scores
0:13:02 > 0:13:06of first place across the board, from all the judges.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09I give you Matthew and Marcus Wenlock.
0:13:09 > 0:13:14APPLAUSE
0:15:54 > 0:15:57APPLAUSE
0:16:04 > 0:16:08We've enjoyed Emily Smith's wonderful renditions of Burns' work,
0:16:08 > 0:16:09and we'll hear more from her shortly.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Emily was born and reared in Dumfriesshire in Scotland,
0:16:12 > 0:16:14which was Burns' stomping ground.
0:16:14 > 0:16:17So we have asked Emily to give us a whistle-stop tour.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25So this is Thornhill in Dumfriesshire.
0:16:25 > 0:16:28And I grew up in a wee village just outside Thornhill.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30This would be one of the busier villages
0:16:30 > 0:16:32towards the north of Dumfries and Galloway,
0:16:32 > 0:16:34so Burns would have frequented here a lot,
0:16:34 > 0:16:36and on his way north up to Ayrshire.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39My inspiration for traditional music really probably stemmed
0:16:39 > 0:16:41from Robert Burns and his work.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45And what continues to draw me back to his work
0:16:45 > 0:16:48is that he walked and rode these same roads
0:16:48 > 0:16:50that I see on a daily basis.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53The same landscape, the same villages, the same place names.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04A couple of miles north of Thornhill is Durisdeer.
0:17:04 > 0:17:07I have lots of childhood memories of coming to Durisdeer
0:17:07 > 0:17:08when I was wee, and going walks.
0:17:08 > 0:17:10You can go a walk in any direction here
0:17:10 > 0:17:11and the views are just beautiful.
0:17:11 > 0:17:15So Burns would certainly have come up and down here quite a few times.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17This road is called the Lang Glen.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20And Burns referred to it in his poem, Last May a Braw Wooer.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24"Last May a braw wooer cam doon the lang glen,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27"And sair wi' his love he did deave me.
0:17:27 > 0:17:30"I said there was naething I hated like men
0:17:30 > 0:17:33"The deuce gae wi'm to believe me, believe me
0:17:33 > 0:17:36"The deuce gae wi'm to believe me."
0:17:41 > 0:17:45When Robert Burns was 29 he moved from Ayrshire to Ellisland Farm,
0:17:45 > 0:17:47which is, again, in Dumfriesshire,
0:17:47 > 0:17:49and he farmed the land here for three years.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52But he wrote some of his most famous works here, Tam O'Shanter,
0:17:52 > 0:17:55the fantastic poem, one of my favourite poems ever,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59and Auld Lang Syne was also another work that he wrote here at Ellisland.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08The River Nith is our largest river in Dumfriesshire.
0:18:08 > 0:18:11It flows right past Ellisland Farm where Burns would have lived.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15You can walk along from Ellisland up to a place called Friars' Carse,
0:18:15 > 0:18:18and Friars' Carse was the mansion home of a man called Robert Riddell,
0:18:18 > 0:18:22who was one of Burns' associates, and he would come and visit him here.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24Robert Riddell built a summer house
0:18:24 > 0:18:28which was called the Friars' Carse hermitage.
0:18:28 > 0:18:33And he let Burns go and use that building as a place to work.
0:18:33 > 0:18:34Coming from Dumfriesshire
0:18:34 > 0:18:38and the same area that Burns lived in I am immensely proud.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40I feel like an ambassador for his work
0:18:40 > 0:18:42and it is always such a pleasure
0:18:42 > 0:18:44to see how far reaching his name has gone.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47It is amazing, actually, the countries we go to,
0:18:47 > 0:18:49and you can still find a Burns club,
0:18:49 > 0:18:51people that are still learning his work.
0:18:51 > 0:18:53He was such an amazing man.
0:18:58 > 0:19:01# Simmer's a pleasant time
0:19:03 > 0:19:07# Flowers of every colour
0:19:09 > 0:19:12# The water rins o'er the heugh
0:19:14 > 0:19:19# And I long for my true lover
0:19:20 > 0:19:25# Aye waukin-o
0:19:25 > 0:19:30# Waukin still and weary
0:19:30 > 0:19:35# Sleep I can get nane
0:19:35 > 0:19:39# For thinking on my dearie
0:19:41 > 0:19:47# Aye waukin-o
0:19:49 > 0:19:55# When I sleep I dream
0:19:55 > 0:20:00# When I wauk I'm irie
0:20:00 > 0:20:05# Sleep I can get nane
0:20:05 > 0:20:09# For thinking on my dearie
0:20:11 > 0:20:15# Aye waukin-o
0:20:15 > 0:20:20# Waukin still and weary
0:20:20 > 0:20:26# Sleep I can get nane
0:20:26 > 0:20:30# For thinking on my dearie
0:20:31 > 0:20:35# Aye waukin-o
0:21:11 > 0:21:17# Lanely night comes in
0:21:17 > 0:21:22# A' the lave are sleepin
0:21:22 > 0:21:27# I think on my bonnie lad
0:21:27 > 0:21:33# And I bleer my een wi' greetin
0:21:33 > 0:21:38# Aye waukin-o
0:21:38 > 0:21:43# Waukin still and weary
0:21:43 > 0:21:48# Sleep I can get nane
0:21:48 > 0:21:52# For thinking on my dearie
0:21:54 > 0:21:57# Aye waukin-o. #
0:22:08 > 0:22:14APPLAUSE
0:22:14 > 0:22:17Bernagh, the track you are playing tonight, El Otro Finisterre,
0:22:17 > 0:22:19tell me about that.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Well, that's a very appropriate piece
0:22:21 > 0:22:23for a night like tonight
0:22:23 > 0:22:27because it has got a big Celtic Connections orientation, really.
0:22:27 > 0:22:32It basically means, "The other Finisterre",
0:22:32 > 0:22:35Finisterre being a kind of Land's End of Brittany.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39And it was a piece written by a Breton composer
0:22:39 > 0:22:42for a Galician piper, Carlos Nunez.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44And it has got that whole bagpipe connection,
0:22:44 > 0:22:48you know, from Galicia, Brittany, Land's End and Cornwall,
0:22:48 > 0:22:51Ulster Scots, bagpipe player...
0:22:51 > 0:22:54It is just the right thing to bring it all together.
0:22:54 > 0:22:56APPLAUSE
0:27:21 > 0:27:27The next number was composed by someone here in this hall tonight.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30Someone up here on this stage, in fact.
0:27:30 > 0:27:33Our conductor, John Logan,
0:27:33 > 0:27:36and I think I'll let him tell you all about it.
0:27:36 > 0:27:37John.
0:27:37 > 0:27:40Thank you very much and good evening, Belfast.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42It's nice to turn round to see an audience,
0:27:42 > 0:27:45because most of the time you look at my back.
0:27:45 > 0:27:48How do I look from behind, by the way? Is it OK?
0:27:48 > 0:27:50LAUGHTER
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Actually, maybe I should... How do I look from the front?
0:27:54 > 0:27:57Maybe I look better from behind.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00Tiree is the next piece that we're going to play,
0:28:00 > 0:28:02and it is a composition of mine.
0:28:02 > 0:28:06Tiree was born from an education project.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10I had to go to Tiree and work with some fantastic schoolchildren
0:28:10 > 0:28:12and I thought, "What am I going to do?"
0:28:12 > 0:28:14So I wrote a little theme called Tiree
0:28:14 > 0:28:16before I took it up into the island.
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It has grown some arms and legs.
0:28:18 > 0:28:21It's been used in film and all sorts. I hope you enjoy it.
0:28:21 > 0:28:25Please welcome to play the solo line, Emily Smith.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24- Eilidh.- Yes.
0:34:24 > 0:34:28This is your first performance in public of a Burns song.
0:34:28 > 0:34:32It's Ae Fond Kiss. What will make yours so extra special?
0:34:34 > 0:34:37Well, I'm basically just going to sing it straight.
0:34:37 > 0:34:39I've never sung Burns before,
0:34:39 > 0:34:43so I'm a bit apprehensive about adding too much to it.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45It's a beautiful melody, beautiful lyric
0:34:45 > 0:34:48and I think I'm just going to sing it in my own voice and that's
0:34:48 > 0:34:51what will make it different from other versions you may have heard.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54Burns wrote the song for Nancy.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Nancy was absolutely crazy about Robert Burns.
0:34:57 > 0:34:59He managed to get over her, I think, pretty quickly,
0:34:59 > 0:35:03but she, for 40 years, brought into her diary on the date that she
0:35:03 > 0:35:07last saw him, saying, "This is the last day I saw Robert Burns."
0:35:07 > 0:35:10And for 40 years, she wrote that into her diary,
0:35:10 > 0:35:12so her heart was broken well and truly
0:35:12 > 0:35:15and she was the one who kind of got the wrong end of the deal.
0:35:19 > 0:35:26# Ae fond kiss, and then we sever
0:35:26 > 0:35:32# Ae fareweel, and then for ever!
0:35:32 > 0:35:38# Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee
0:35:38 > 0:35:49# Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee
0:35:58 > 0:36:04# Who can say that fortune grieves him
0:36:04 > 0:36:10# While the star of hope she leaves him?
0:36:10 > 0:36:17# Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me
0:36:17 > 0:36:25# Dark despair around benights me
0:36:35 > 0:36:41# I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy
0:36:41 > 0:36:48# Nothing could resist my Nancy
0:36:48 > 0:36:53# For to see her was to love her
0:36:53 > 0:37:03# Love but her, and love for ever
0:37:06 > 0:37:12# Had we never lov'd sae kindly
0:37:12 > 0:37:19# Had we never lov'd sae blindly
0:37:19 > 0:37:25# Never met or never parted
0:37:25 > 0:37:34# We had ne'er been broken-hearted
0:37:38 > 0:37:44# Fare-thee-weel Thou first and fairest!
0:37:44 > 0:37:50# Fare-thee-weel Thou best and dearest!
0:37:50 > 0:37:57# Thine be ilka joy and treasure
0:37:57 > 0:38:06# Peace, enjoyment Love and pleasure
0:38:06 > 0:38:13# Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
0:38:13 > 0:38:20# Ae fareweel and then for ever!
0:38:20 > 0:38:26# Thine be ilka joy and treasure
0:38:26 > 0:38:35# Peace, enjoyment Love and pleasure
0:38:37 > 0:38:43# I'll wage thee
0:38:45 > 0:38:51# Ooh-ooh...
0:38:51 > 0:38:57# I'll wage thee. #
0:39:05 > 0:39:06APPLAUSE
0:39:06 > 0:39:08Thank you.
0:39:11 > 0:39:14It's been a great night so far with the Ulster Orchestra,
0:39:14 > 0:39:16Bernagh and Emily Smith.
0:39:16 > 0:39:19But we've also had pipes and drums here as well.
0:39:19 > 0:39:22A lone piper and drummer brought on the haggis,
0:39:22 > 0:39:25and the audience were jolted when 43 young pipers came through
0:39:25 > 0:39:30the auditorium from the Ulster-Scots Agency Juvenile Pipe Band.
0:39:30 > 0:39:32The band was formed just three years ago,
0:39:32 > 0:39:35and we caught up with them recently to find out a little bit more.
0:39:40 > 0:39:42They never really have one collective band practice.
0:39:42 > 0:39:44The only time they see each other is at an event.
0:39:44 > 0:39:46We teach them skills and run classes.
0:39:46 > 0:39:49A class in Raphoe, a class in Clogher,
0:39:49 > 0:39:51a class in Belfast.
0:39:51 > 0:39:53And we pull them all together for the events.
0:39:53 > 0:39:54They're very good attenders,
0:39:54 > 0:39:57they do travel all over the country to take part in these events.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00Concerts, festivals.
0:40:00 > 0:40:01'I've been playing in the band'
0:40:01 > 0:40:04for a year and a quarter.
0:40:04 > 0:40:10'You get lots of opportunities, like going to the Walled City Tattoo,'
0:40:10 > 0:40:13er...competitions
0:40:13 > 0:40:17'and loads of concerts, like the Waterfront.'
0:40:17 > 0:40:21It's about the children enjoying themselves. It's light-hearted.
0:40:21 > 0:40:24Although we are pushing the children to be very good on their instrument,
0:40:24 > 0:40:26we let them get there themselves.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29We do encourage the children to go to competing bands,
0:40:29 > 0:40:31but if they don't want to do that,
0:40:31 > 0:40:34that's absolutely fine. There is some children are just with us.
0:40:34 > 0:40:35They have to leave us at 18.
0:40:35 > 0:40:39We hope that we give them the bug for playing these instruments.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42I played at the Waterfront last year
0:40:42 > 0:40:44with the Ulster Orchestra, and it was loads of fun,
0:40:44 > 0:40:46because we got to
0:40:46 > 0:40:47interact with the orchestra,
0:40:47 > 0:40:51and it was really different from everything I've done before.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it again.
0:43:04 > 0:43:08RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE
0:43:13 > 0:43:16One of the songs you're singing tonight is John O'Dreams.
0:43:16 > 0:43:19Now that's not a Burns song. Why?
0:43:19 > 0:43:22Well, I just thought, whenever I've heard that song,
0:43:22 > 0:43:24and whenever I sing it, I always think of him,
0:43:24 > 0:43:27because the lyrics are actually written by a songwriter
0:43:27 > 0:43:31called Bill Caddick, and the piece of music he set his lyrics to
0:43:31 > 0:43:32are from a piece by Tchaikovsky,
0:43:32 > 0:43:36so it's got quite a history to it, but in the second last verse,
0:43:36 > 0:43:41is... "Both man and master in the night are one,"
0:43:41 > 0:43:44you know, and it's the bit about the prince and a slave man.
0:43:44 > 0:43:47Everyone's free, at the end of the day.
0:43:47 > 0:43:50And that just really rings true with so much of what Burns wrote.
0:43:50 > 0:43:52And he was a real voice for the people.
0:43:52 > 0:43:54And his work could stretch across the classes
0:43:54 > 0:43:58and across divides, so it just always reminds me of Burns.
0:44:02 > 0:44:11# When midnight comes and people homewards tread
0:44:11 > 0:44:19# Seek now your blankets and your feather bed
0:44:19 > 0:44:30# Home comes the rover His journey's over
0:44:30 > 0:44:38# Yield up the night-time to old John O'Dreams
0:44:40 > 0:44:49# Across the hill The sun has gone astray
0:44:49 > 0:44:58# Tomorrow's cares are many dreams away
0:44:58 > 0:45:09# Your stars are flying Your candle's dying
0:45:09 > 0:45:18# Yield up the night-time to old John O'Dreams
0:45:35 > 0:45:43# Both man and master in the night are one
0:45:44 > 0:45:52# All men are equal when the day is done
0:45:52 > 0:46:02# The prince and ploughman The slave and freeman
0:46:02 > 0:46:11# Both find their comfort in old John O'Dreams
0:46:13 > 0:46:20# When sleep, it comes And dreams are running clear
0:46:22 > 0:46:29# The hawks of morning cannot reach you here
0:46:29 > 0:46:40# Sleep like a river Flows on forever
0:46:40 > 0:46:48# And for your boatman Choose old John O'Dreams
0:46:50 > 0:47:03# And for your boatman Choose old John O'Dreams
0:47:05 > 0:47:08# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:47:08 > 0:47:12# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:47:14 > 0:47:17# Ooh-ooh-ooh
0:47:17 > 0:47:22# La-la ooh-ooh. #
0:47:35 > 0:47:37Thank you very much.
0:47:37 > 0:47:42Well, this last song of our little set here is called Gala Water.
0:47:42 > 0:47:45Burns not only wrote poems and songs,
0:47:45 > 0:47:47but he was a great song collector, to which we owe a great debt.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50So, this is one that he collected from the town of Galashiels.
0:47:50 > 0:47:52This is called Gala Water.
0:48:15 > 0:48:22# Braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes Rove among the blooming heather
0:48:22 > 0:48:26# But Yarrow braes Nor Ettrick's shaws
0:48:26 > 0:48:29# Can match the lads o' Gala Water
0:48:29 > 0:48:33# Oh, braw, braw bonnie lads-o
0:48:35 > 0:48:38# But there is ane, a secret ane
0:48:38 > 0:48:41# Aboon them a' I loe him better
0:48:41 > 0:48:45# And I'll be his, and he'll be mine
0:48:45 > 0:48:47# The bonnie lad o' Gala Water
0:48:47 > 0:48:52# Oh, braw, braw bonnie lads-o
0:48:59 > 0:49:01# Although my faither wasnae laird
0:49:01 > 0:49:05# And though I hae nae meikle tocher
0:49:05 > 0:49:09# Yet rich in kindest, truest love
0:49:09 > 0:49:13# We'll tent our flocks by Gala Water
0:49:13 > 0:49:16# Oh, braw, braw bonnie lads-o
0:49:43 > 0:49:46# It ne'er was wealth It ne'er was wealth
0:49:46 > 0:49:49# That coft contentment peace or pleasure
0:49:49 > 0:49:53# The bands and bliss o' mutual love
0:49:53 > 0:50:00# O, that's the chiefest world's treasure
0:50:00 > 0:50:02# Braw, braw bonnie lads-o. #
0:50:54 > 0:50:56WHOOPING
0:51:01 > 0:51:03WHOOPING
0:51:47 > 0:51:49WHOOPING
0:53:45 > 0:53:47APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:54:03 > 0:54:11Stalked by debt and illness, Burns died at Dumfries on 21st July 1796,
0:54:11 > 0:54:13aged just 37.
0:54:13 > 0:54:15Tonight, over 200 years later,
0:54:15 > 0:54:18we honour the immortal memory of Burns.
0:54:18 > 0:54:20We hail the great bard,
0:54:20 > 0:54:25who still touches a chord in every Ulster-Scot heart.
0:54:25 > 0:54:30Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being a wonderful audience tonight,
0:54:30 > 0:54:34and together, we'll remember Rabbie Burns.
0:54:34 > 0:54:40# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:54:40 > 0:54:43# And never brought tae mind
0:54:43 > 0:54:49# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:54:49 > 0:54:54# For auld lang syne
0:54:54 > 0:54:58# For auld lang syne, my jo
0:54:58 > 0:55:03# For auld lang syne
0:55:03 > 0:55:08# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:55:08 > 0:55:14# For auld lang syne
0:55:15 > 0:55:20# And surely ye'll be your pint stowp
0:55:20 > 0:55:24# And surely I'll be mine
0:55:24 > 0:55:29# And we'll tak a richt gude-willie-waught
0:55:29 > 0:55:33# For auld lang syne
0:55:33 > 0:55:38# For auld lang syne, my jo
0:55:38 > 0:55:43# For auld lang syne
0:55:43 > 0:55:47# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:55:47 > 0:55:55# For auld lang syne
0:56:09 > 0:56:15# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:56:15 > 0:56:20# And never brought to mind
0:56:20 > 0:56:26# Should auld acquaintance be forgot
0:56:26 > 0:56:31# For auld lang syne
0:56:33 > 0:56:37# For auld lang syne, my dear
0:56:37 > 0:56:43# For auld lang syne
0:56:43 > 0:56:49# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:56:49 > 0:56:54# For auld lang syne
0:56:55 > 0:57:01# And there's a hand, my trusty fiere
0:57:01 > 0:57:06# And gie's a hand o' thine
0:57:06 > 0:57:13# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:57:13 > 0:57:19# For auld lang syne
0:57:19 > 0:57:24# For auld lang syne, my dear
0:57:24 > 0:57:30# For auld lang syne
0:57:30 > 0:57:36# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:57:36 > 0:57:42# For auld lang syne
0:57:43 > 0:57:48# For auld lang syne, my dear
0:57:48 > 0:57:52# For auld lang syne
0:57:52 > 0:57:59# We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet
0:57:59 > 0:58:07# For auld lang syne. #
0:58:15 > 0:58:17WARM APPLAUSE AND CHEERING