12/05/2026
Never did I in my wildest dreams imagine when I decided to have a iMtv Spring Songwriter Season, that one of the corner stone songwriters of American Folk Music would show up at the Moose 🫎 Mobile on my home town of Nairn, researching as he is the Songs of our National Bard Rabbie Burns.
Rabbie himself had dined here and spent three days in the area
Burns passed through the royal burgh of Nairn in early September 1787 while traveling from Inverness toward Elgin.
He didn't stay long, but he noted in his travel journal that the town was situated at the mouth of the River Nairn and remarked on the "miserable" state of some of the huts he saw along the coast,(things have improved) he was always one for social commentary!
His most significant stop in the area was actually at Kilravock Castle (near Croy, on the border of Nairnshire and Inverness-shire). He was charmed by the hospitality and the music of Mrs. Rose, the 19th Baroness of Kilravock, and later wrote to her praising the "venerable stately mansion" and the kindness he received there, sadly that building has deteriorated.
In contrast Andrew spent two nights on my spare bed in The Medicine Show Radio Moose Mobile 🫎
These last few days culminating in three of the most interesting days of my life, and this song at the Bandstand Bar Sunday Session - listen as the power of a 17th century song still can quite a rowdy bar if delivered with passion and precision.
Andrew has spent 11 years researching the songs and manuscripts of The Bard - I had the privilege to be privy to a better insight to the great mans travels and travails, that I could scarsley have found more enthralling if Rabbie himself had bivved down with me for thon 3 days himself. I swear Andrew has morphed into many of his subjects aspects along his quest for the truth of Burns.
Here is our Moose Session and interview it's a must for anyone and their Auld Aquantcanses (that's all of you )
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1B85BeDxPA/
Any questions find him at www.andrewcalhoun.com
In conjunction with Medicine Show Radio
Part of the iMtv Spring Songwriter Season supporting The Medicine Show Radio Moose Mobile appeal..
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