Jack Campin; folk session photos

Last update: 18 June 2008

Most of these photos are lossless JPEGs between 100 and 250K, scanned from prints taken with an Olympus mju-2 35mm compact camera.

• Volunteer Arms session, Musselburgh:
  1. Somebody asked the man nearest the camera "hey, you in the blue teeshirt, sing us Willie McBride". This is one way out of it. Maybe she'll try "hey, you in the white Y-fronts..." next time.
• Auchtermuchty Folk Festival, 2002:
  1. It's a hard life being a melodeon case. They never learn, do they?
  2. Before and after enchantment by the magic whistle.
  3. Me demonstrating the CD-ROM in the town square.
• Auchtermuchty Folk Festival, 2003:
  1. Jean Lepley in the town square ceilidh
• Newcastleton Folk Festival, 2003:
  1. Gordon's usual way of playing the bodhran
  2. Gordon surrenders to conventionality
  3. Kirti Mandir, tabla, with a good young banjo player whose name I don't know
  4. One of the last pictures taken of Iain Grant
  5. What babies really think of Mickey Mouse
• Photos I've taken at Sandy Bell's:
  1. Marieke Smegen and Graham Adamson, 2003
  2. Norman Mackay and Tom McAweany, 2003
• Photo taken at Sandy Bell's by Jim Irvine in the early 1990s (367K):
  1. Three musicians who are now dead: Jimmy Greenan (whistle, with grey beard), Johnny Cunningham (fiddle), Iain Grant (smoking a pipe, with his six-key multiple diatonic mouth organ on the table).
• Photo taken at Sandy Bell's by Marion Bowles, 2003:
  1. Me at a slow moment in the session, Michael the barman in the background.
• Digital photos taken at Sandy Bell's by Caroline Gonzalez-Pintado, March 2004 (less than 100K each):
  1. Me playing a treble recorder (greatbass at the right)
  2. Me with a washboard, thinking about where to come in
  3. Me playing a tenor recorder, Sasha in the background
  4. A picture in which I appear to be playing a fiddle with my mouth; the black thing is a Susato G alto recorder
  5. Sasha and Graham
  6. Sasha (who has never tried to play the bodhran before) on being told the correct playing technique is "just like wanking".
  7. Me in a drinker's-eye view.
• From the Thursday night session at the Old Pier pub in Portobello, Edinburgh. At the time this pub was the most session-friendly I have ever encountered anywhere, as well as being more welcoming to disabled customers than any other I know of (not any more on either count, it's become an anonymous yuppified restaurant/winebar and the session was forced out).
  1. Joe Madden the session organizer on guitar
  2. Douglas McKelvie on fiddle
  3. Douglas with a mando player and some of the free sandwiches
• Loanhead Music Festival, 2002:
  1. Bass player in a bluegrass jam
• Assorted pictures of musician friends:
  1. Anette Stramel trying Julian Goodacre's Cornish bagpipes
  2. Anette being a stereotype tourist in Princes Street, Edinburgh
  3. Jacqui Adams with an ingenious contraption enabling her to play the flute despite being too disabled to hold it normally

Pictures taken at the 40th birthday party (October 2002) of Henderson's vegetarian restaurant, Hanover Street, Edinburgh. These are somewhat smaller files.

1. A detail from their mural, which was painted in the early 70s by a skint visiting American artist with an Italian name I forget, who did it in exchange for a month of breakfasts. All the people in it are real, depicted in an imaginary pseudo-mediaeval feast in Princes Street Gardens. Hamish Henderson is at another table, but who are this band? The guitarist is obviously Dick Gaughan, can anyone name the others?
2. Me with David McLetchie, then chairman of the Scottish Tory Party.

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