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Need Fire was one of the Celtic bands playing at the Scottish Highland Games in Enumclaw this weekend. They took turns sharing one of the stages with The Wicked Tinkers.
Little Michael Purser plays the didgeridoo and the fiddle for Need Fire. At the end of the day, I noticed his fiddle bow was nearly shredded. I asked him if this was a common occurence. He shyly hung his head and admitted that it was. If a fiddle bow could look happy, that one did. Completely tired and happy.
Since I was without a camera or phone to record the evidence, I asked Lauren Madison if she had any pictures of it. Turns out she is a photographer and gave me permission to dig up and use any she had taken of Michael.
Both of these celtic bands have pipers and drummers who send primal shivers down your spine and entice you to shed your inhibitions while you listen. What happens the Highland Games stays at the Highland Games......
At the end of life, I want to be shredded from being passionately used. Used long and hard and joyously.
Shredded passion ~ unstrung ~ then restrung only to be shredded once again by the music maker.
Play me.
We have Highland Games in Alexandria every year. There's always a big turnout of Westies and the music keeps going.
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We went to the Celtic Festival in Chicago this past May -- and the music range from traditional bagpipes to exactly what you heard and noted here. I wanted to do a river dance but my wife wouldn't let me.
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