Rachael said that she hopes those watching the footage will appreciate that it’s a rarely seen snapshot into our past. The mix of old and new shots was really cool.” I thought the finished piece was really good. That there was a sense of a forward flow of positivity. “I wanted to portray in the music that it just wasn’t sad. “We got a cameraman to take some shots of me performing the piece, which was shot in Dublin. The violinist and pianist said the footage was melancholic in feeling, but the musician also wanted to give a sense of hope in the composition. I watched through loads of files and they let me choose. “They sent it through to me and that’s how it happened. They just said it would be of footage from the 1970s in Belfast. “It sounded pretty cool,” says Rachael when recalling how the collaboration came to be. ![]() “We were sitting in the church, absolutely freezing but once we saw what was getting captured on camera, it was absolutely worth it, and we knew we had made the made the right choice,” he says.īelfast classical musician Rachael Boyd produced a composition entitled Wanderers, to accompany archive footage of the Travelling community in 1960s Ireland which was intercut with contemporary shots. ![]() “It was the middle of December and I could see my breath in front of me. Matt explains that he opted for it because it’s part of the city near to where Willie would have roamed the streets. The entire process took six months, adds the professional musician, and it was recorded in Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church in north Belfast. “She wrote a piece and the whole thing came together quiet organically and turned out to be pretty epic.” “I wrote a song around it and I got involved with a poet from Dublin, Natalya O’Flaherty who’s fantastic. They formed an orchestra and they toured, and “Afterwards, Willie found happiness busking on the streets of Belfast,” reveals Matt. “At that era obviously that meant he would have had difficulties,” remarks Matt.Īs Willie was growing up, an Austrian musician who was visiting these shores proved to be his saviour after he discovered a lot of children like Willie who knew they had the odds stacked against them and taught them how to play instruments. In taking on the creative project, Matt learned about Willie’s life story the fact the saw player had been born around the early 1900s and had a physical disability which affected his legs. Straight away I just had this vision of taking his performance and actually arranging it for strings and presenting it to a whole new audience.” ![]() Receive today's headlines directly to your inbox every morning and evening, with our free daily newsletter.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up ![]() It's not even past.' Dutch helps keep the 'past' vividly alive in the present.Daily Headlines & Evening Telegraph Newsletter His distinctive and lovable personality always yields centre stage to the experiences of Islanders whose stories he shares with irresistible humour and loving-hearted reverence.American author William Faulkner famously said, 'The past is never dead. " narrative voice, tone and perspective delightfully honour the past without being cloying. And don't miss Stompin' Tom's best man, entrepreneur Johnny Reid and lighthouse keeper Manson Murchison who saw the phantom ship of the Strait twice.įrom CBC Radio to the pages of this book, you'll hear Dutch's encouraging voice illuminating these unforgettable and important histories from the lives of Maritimers. It has memories from Keith Pratt, railway engine driver and photographer, and Kathryn MacQuarrie Wood, a tourism pioneer who ran the largest rink on PEI. This second collection includes stories from moonshiner and horse whisperer Ralph Gallant and Maisie Adams, Canada's first female lighthouse keeper. Dutch Thompson is back with More Bygone Days.
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