D&G Writers on the Road

Three of the region's writers are on tour together this weekend.

On Friday, September 6th Vivien Jones, JoAnne McKay and Mary Smith will be reading at the Callander Poetry Weekend. They'll be in the King's Bookshop on Main Street at 6pm, presenting Home and Away: Poems of Place with work that ranges from Cornwall to Aghanistan. Via Romford. More details here: http://www.desktopsallye.com/page22.htm

At 7.30pm on Saturday, 7th September The Galloway Consort presents Red Rose, White Rose at Abbotsford House, Melrose - home of Sir Walter Scott. This is a special performance marking the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Flodden and will take place in Scott's library, which remains as it was when Scott arranged the books on the shelves.

 

Red Rose, White Rose, written by Vivien Jones, is a dramatic reading of an imagined exchange between Margaret Tudor, wife of James IV and his mistress, Janet Bairars, on the night before the battle with music played on 16th century instruments to tell the women’s tale.

JoAnne McKay appears as the Queen, and Mary Smith as the mistress.

Full details, and how to book, here: http://www.scottsabbotsford.co.uk/whats-on?ee=30