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Ed Miller, a native of Edinburgh, Scotland, now
living in Austin, Texas, is a product of the 1960s folk
revival in Scotland. He moved to the United States in
1968 to complete his graduate work in Geography,
and later Folklore, at the University of Texas at Austin.
In addition to his singing career, Ed is the host of a
folk music program on Austin's NPR station, KUT-FM.
Ed Miller is a performer who has learned his craft in
musical venues on both sides of the Atlantic and a
folklorist who brings his love of Scotland to every
performance.
Ed Miller is the special guest host of Friday's and
Saturday's Robert Burns Night Supper, and presents
a Folk song & Burns workshop on Saturday.
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Mark Stanfield as the official piper for the Robert
Burns Night Suppers in Eureka Springs, began his
piping career in January of 1998. He has studied at the
National Piping Centre in Glasgow, Scotland and the
Ontario School of Piping at St. Andrews College in
Aurora, Ontario, Canada.
Mark has won numerous piping contests in the US and
a Second Place in Scotland. He was Piper of the Day at
the 2001 Tulsa Games and at McPerson, Kansas
Games in 2002. He now plays with the Kansas City St.
Andrews Pipes and Drums, the Tullintrain West Pipe
Band and solos for many events and special occasions.
Mark Stanfield will pipe the guests to table at both
Thursday and Friday Burns Night Suppers as well as
performing traditional bagpipe pieces during the
evenings.
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Tullintrain West Pipe Band, started in 2005,
has spent its first two years competing at highland
festivals in the Midwest, playing for the inauguration of
the Governor of Kansas, playing with Seven Nations
and the Elders, and for the Kansas City Royals.
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The band got its start when Pipe Major Kevin Gilstrap,
competed with Tullintrain, a pipe band in Northern
Ireland at the World Pipe Band Championship in 2004.
Kevin decided to start a sister band in Kansas City.
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Linda Brockinton started playing flute at age eleven and
has played flute and piccolo previously with the
Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. As a music major in
college, she won First Chair in several regional
orchestras. Linda began playing mountain dulcimer in
1988 and she has taught dulcimer lessons since 1990.
An award-winning dulcimer musician, Linda has
presents a musical workshop on Saturday. She formed
the Heartstrings with some of her music students and
also plays harp, guitar, hammered dulcimer, and
bodhran with the group. Linda continues to teach private
dulcimer and flute lessons as well as teaching at
numerous venues across the country.
Celtic Heartstrings, Linda Brockinton and flutist Brenda
Ramsey, perform Friday and Saturday evening at Doc
Baker's Lounge and at Sunday Brunch in the Crystal
Dining Room.
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