The IRA (Inverness Royal Academy)

The B&B we’re staying in is very classy with golden faucets in the bathroom and all kinds of little things around. After breakfast I walk downtown to do some email. Yesterday I spotted a WiFi Café which was not to far away from the main strip. I only have a little time before I need to be back for our trip to the IRA (Inverness Royal Academy). We’re holding workshops for the students. It’s two classes with kids between 14 and 16 years. I thought that they bring instruments but it’s more a question answer scenario. It’s great that the school offers to bring in professional touring musicians to talk about their experiences and give little samples of the music.

Afterwards we go back to the B&B to get some rest before the show which is at the St Michaels and All Angels Church. It’s a wonderful place and the acoustic allows us to play all acoustic. Surprise, we have an opening act. A young trio with two fiddles and a guitar. They play a couple of compositions that were especially written for Jamie and me. We sit in the first row and don’t quite know what to say or how to act, that’s something we haven’t experienced yet. Full of impressions and emotions we go on stage and start the concert and it’s just wonderful, a very memorable evening.
Here is a pic from the concert


At the end there is a little reception where people come up and talk with us. We’re starving again but our hosts have prepared a dinner at their house. It’s again a late night and by the time we’re back in the B&B I just crawl to bed and am asleep a minute later.