Pier Arts Centre

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Pier Arts Centre

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Voices of the past and the present weave an oral history of the town. This entertaining soundscape told by people of Stromness will lead you from the pier head to the cannon beyond Stromness Museum. In this third episode we hear about the Hudson’s Bay Company, the Pier Arts Centre, artist Sylvia Wishart and the Stromness piers. Narrator: Bea Watson George Mackay Brown reads from ‘Tam’ 1967 / Eric Flett & Ian MacInnes circa 1990 (BBC Radio Orkney) / John Park 2011 / Isla Holloway 2011 / Ernest Marwick & Tom Wishart 1967 / Graham Bevan 2011 / Archie Bevan 2011 / Elizabeth Bevan 2011 Music: 1. Jennifer & Hazel Wrigley ‘Newark Bay’, ‘The Broonie O' Copinsay’ / 2. Isla Wallace ‘Uncle Ian's Reel’ (Stromness Academy) / 3. Sam Spence ‘Flying Home’ (Stromness Academy)

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