Speaker: Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson and I (Rushton) give you a second week in a row of annual festivities with plenty of information on the famous song and the festival of which it's a part. At the end of this program, you will hopefully know how to pronounce the word "Hogmanay," be able to produce the proper Regiments response at this time of year to, "Who goes there?" and still be tingling from the rousing Kenneth McKellar version of Auld Lang Syne, an mp3 version of which is linked in the program. Enjoy!
This week comments: 128, this week visitors: 53
It was fun to learn all this history about a song we all take for granted. Good Program
It was fun to learn all this history about a song we all take for granted. Good Program
Thanks Carol and Rushton for putting on this program. Happy New Year to all.
Nice meeting. Good program. I particularly enjoyed Abraham's induction. Welcome to our eClub Abraham.
The program on Hogmanay had me going to YouTube and finding videos of Scottish Pipe Bands. I love the pipe music and actually learned to play the pipes. Now I'm learning to play golf. That you can do on New Year's Day in Brazil.
Thanks, Carol and Rushton
Loved the program - being of Scottish descent, our family began to celebrate Hogmanay several years ago. Our particular brand of event begins with the sharing of libations with guests and culminates in a terrific bonfire.
I went back to the first of the program and realized where I had lost the progression of the program. It was much better the second time around. Thanks, Bill Ogletree
I am experiencing mixsd difficullty and success and failure in navigating through the programs. I never got access to "Hogmany"
Didn't know much about the history of this song, and frankly, never understood what it meant.
Sounds like fun - if I were 20 or 30 years younger... As it is now, I don't think I would make it to 2 a.m., much less to the daylight hours of New Year's Day or beyond.
Hogmanay--what an interesting celebration of the New Year. The first-footing tradition would be a lot of fun. I think we'll try it next year, without the fireball swinging! Thanks for a great end-of-year program.
It nice and easy to make of a meeting on line and I enjoyed the program
Thank you for such an enjoyable meeting. As the World Peace Scholar Chair for our club it was delightful to listen and watch the induction of a former peac e scholar into Rotary. I intend to use him as an example when I speak to our club about the benefits of the peace scholar program.
I enjoyed Carol and Rushton's program program and now know so much more about our new year's traditions.
Happy New Year to all of you.
Barb Grohe
Rotary President, Kent Rotary, Kent, Washington
Thanks for the opportunity to learn more about your club and, especially, to see the photographic representations of Rotary's work around the world.
Happy New Year!
I am impresses with the work being done with the Slow Money movement. If we are to have a future on this planet, we need to consider much more than profit. Thank you to those who are organizing this movement and giving us a way to participate.
great meeting
Thanks for the joke. I told my wife and daughters. They just sighed.
Thanks for providing this terrific service and for keeping Rotary alive electronically.
Very interesting. I've read many things about Hogmanay without really understanding it so it was great to learn about it. And, of course, we always sing "Auld Lang Syne" every year so this was a great reminder about what it means and where it came from.
Thanks, I enjoyed that especially the reflections questions and to see the worldwide traditions.
Inteesting
Very good
I enjoyed the humour in various spots plus the information. Thank you for the opportunity to make-up meetings on line.
This was very good. It was my first time and I certainly enjoyed it.
For many years, we sang "Auld Lang Syne" during our last meeting of the year. Our dear club member and song director passed away a few years ago, so we don't sing it as much. I often wondered about the historical nature of this song. I really enjoyed reading about it as well as hearing a true professional sing it. Great program!
Welcome to Abraham - it is great to have a new member from Nigeria!
Thanks for my first opportunity to do so!
It was very interesting to find out the different ways to bring in the New Year. This stared my New Year off right.
Very facinating!
Thanks!!
Never new the lyrics to the new year song...Thank you for the info...
Thank you for the advice...
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!! BEST WISHES FOR 2010.
I very much enjoyed the history about the various New Year's traditions. I also enjoyed the perspective fostered by the various quotes that were interjected throughout the opening of the meeting. I will be sharing some of them with my coworkers. Happy New Year!
Congratulations to Abraham Fateh on joining Rotary. I enjoed the New Years look back questions.
Very interesting - I had always wondered the interpretation of the Auld Lang Syne song!
Very interesting on how other countries celebrate Christmas
I enjoyed the information about the song Hogmanay Scottish word for the last day of the year and also a song.
I was most interesting and informative
Great way to supplement our own meetings when unable to attend
Very Good Program...being a Celt (Scotsman) I am fond of celebrating Celtic New Year on 31 Oct and the "Return of Light"/ Winter Solstice
Great
Very interesting to learn about how the New Year is celebrated elsewhere.
INTERESTING
Very informative. I have heard of First footing before, but it was a good refresher. Thanks for a convenient make up!
Very enjoyable experience - I found the "program" fascinating and informative! Well Done.
This is an interesting concept where i went through the whole meeting instead of reading some paragraphs of infromation. I like this approach
Hmmm. You've given me a lot to think about in reviewing 2009.
One of the most helpful things our club accomplished in 2009 was to raise enough funds to send 60 kids, who otherwise would not have been able to afford it, to college for the 2009-2010 school year.
A very compact program describing the origin of the popular version of "Auld Lang Syne", as well as a review of the Hogmanay tradition and its various offshoots. Hogmanay is the "Scots word for the last day of the year" and as a celebration traces its roots back to winter solstice observance by the ancient Norse. The Gaelic, Romans and Vikings had similar winter festivals. We learn that Hogmanay was characterized by much frivality, food, drink and gift giving. "First-footing" is a Hogmanay custom wherein the first person of the new year to cross the threshold of one's home is very significant and an occasion for celebration In a similar Greek tradition, this same practice of first footing may attach good or ill fortune for the householder in the upcoming year. Swinging fireballs at midnight is another Scottish custom. Citizens swing chain attached flaming "chicken wire" balls through the streets at midnight to blaze in the new year. Auld Lang Syne is printed in a traditional version; and is also presented in the more recognizable version "reinterpreted by Robert Burns" - which we sing today. Excellent and timely program. Happy New Year!
Rushton, thank you for all the efforts you put into the programs, bringing them to life.
Happy New Years to all members, friends and visitors.
Happy New Year to all. Isn't it great to see how cultures celebrate events around the world.
Great, thanks!
Memories: Remembering when I sang Auld Lang Syne, to end the 1991 convention in Mexico City, standing between president Saboo and his wife, and forgot some of the lyrics. Memories!
Great songs! Thanks, and Happy New Year! It is wonderful to belong to the family of Rotarians around the world!
The end of the year is always a time for reflection and resolutions. Thank you for the suggestions. Happy Holidays!
Fun things to know and tell! Thanks Carol and Rushton for a very interesting program. I'm taking the New Year's eve part with us to a new year's eve party, so I can share it with friends!
