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National Theatre of Scotland: Long Gone Lonesome

Presented by Texas Performing Arts at Texas Performing Arts- Bass Concert Hall

December 19-December 21, 2011

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Presented in partnership with the Fusebox Festival

The National Theatre of Scotland, having played to sold out performances of Black Watch last season, returns to the Bass Concert Hall stage with an evening of song and story-telling about one of Scotland’s least known but most fascinating musical heroes, Thomas Fraser.

Fraser (1927 – 1978) was a fisherman and crofter from the remote island of Burra, Shetland. Obsessed with country and the blues, Thomas mastered the styles of his idols – such as Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams, and Big Bill Broonzy – and made their songs his own. A shy, retiring man, he avoided public performance. Instead, he gave family and friends tapes he lovingly recorded in his croft. Thomas laughed at the idea that the wider world might appreciate his talent. But thirty years after his untimely death, those precious, fragile tapes have been reissued on several CDs, and his fame has spread to Nashville
and beyond.

Orcadian western swingers, The Lone Star Swing Band, tell this upbeat story through song and words, with novelist, playwright and musician Duncan McLean at the helm. After the show, the audience will be invited to join The Lone Star Swing Band for dancing in the Texas Dance Hall tradition.