Yesterday the Music Coll 2015 advance party arrived on Coll courtesy of a very smooth ferry crossing from Cal Mac. This was a day earlier than intended given the RMT Union's strike today which has all but shut down the Cal Mac ferry network around the West of Scotland.
With the majority of the young musicians due to arrive tomorrow Saturday and our Tutors on Sunday we are hopeful that everyone will get here safely.
Given the chaos caused by the strike we are very grateful to Cal Mac who have done all they could do in the situation to help where possible. They are also generously sponsoring all our young musicians and tutors' passenger ticket for Music Coll.
Today we will be setting up at An Cridhe ready for everyone's arrival.
The main casualty of the strike has been our wonderful Bosendorfer piano supplied by the ever willing H Stuart Duncan. Sadly Stuart was due to travel today and given his hectic schedule it was impossible to rearrange things. Also all ferries over the weekend are now fully booked due to the strike. We are however deligted that Stuart will be able to make the trip to Coll with the piano next Wednesday so we will have the best part of a week with the instrument. In the meantime we have been prevailing upon the extraordinary good will and generosity of the Coll people and have hopefully found two upright pianos for rehearsals to go ahead until then. Phew!
Here's looking forward to things getting going tomorrow!
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