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Come along to the Power House at National Mining Museum Scotland, Newtongrange on Saturday 20th July at 2pm and enjoy an afternoon of poetry and song relating to the 1984 Miners' Strike performed by Rab Wilson and Sean Gray.The performance will be in two parts of 45 minutes with an interval in between.
Tickets priced £12 adults, £10 Conc/child
During your visit take time to look at our exhibition case relating to the strike and enjoy some lunch or a coffee in our cafe. Our gift shop will also be open with mining related items and books available to purchase.
Sean Gray Bio Seán Gray Digs into the Politics and Poetry of Ayrshire Mining Communities with his debut album Fixed Assets. The Glasgow-based Ayrshire native is firmly established in the international folk community, as a session player, as a past member of the Paul McKenna Band, and the recipient of a prestigious Celtic Connections New Voices composing commission.
Rab Wilson Bio Rab Wilson is one of Scotland’s most accomplished poets. He was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire in 1960. After an engineering apprenticeship with the National Coal Board he left the pits following the miner’s strike of 1984–5 to become a psychiatric nurse. As a Scots poet, his work appears regularly in The Herald, Chapman, Lallans and Markings magazines and he is the author of a number of highly praised volumes of poetry and a Burns scholar.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
National Mining Museum Scotland, National Mining Museum Scotland, Dalkeith, EH22 4, United Kingdom,Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg
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