A big gala event bringing together Scottish and Ukrainian musicians and writers. Plus video messages from Ukrainians both here and back home in the war. The number of acts was too long to list here, but it really did have something for everyone. Scottish folk, Ukrainian pop and opera, storytelling and poetry, with three songs from the mighty Lau to close the event, before the Ukraine national anthem was sung - are there were a lot of emotional Ukrainians in the audience to add volume.
There were a few technical hitches, but that felt entirely forgivable on such a worthy occasion, and one that had had to be thrown together at short notice. With so many acts to cope with the sound check must have been a lengthy nightmare! And the occasional glitch served as a reminder that this was an event with real human urgency behind it, that there are innocent people dying in this war, as we sat there and enjoyed the tunes and the words.
Memorable.
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