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Karine Polwart’s amazing song about Trump and his Scottish roots, “I Burn But I Am Not Consumed”
Filmed live by the BBC at the opening concert of Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, “I Burn But I Am Not Consumed” was performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as a prelude to Karine’s song “Cover Your Eyes” which was used in the award-winning documentary ‘You’ve Been Trumped’ about the construction of a luxury golf course on a beach in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, and Trump’s shocking treatment of a Scottish family and his attempts to force them off their land.
KARINE POLWART: In performance with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Celtic Connections, Thursday 19th January 2017 | Watch the performance
Listen to Karine Polwart’s “Beckstival” – a back garden celebration
The multi-award-winning folksinger, songwriter and storyteller, Karine Polwart, crafts an elegy in song for Al Beck, a local legend of rural East Lothian. The songs – were Al’s choices for ‘Beckstival’ a back garden celebration co-created in the depth of lockdown during June 2020, just weeks before Al’s death from cancer.
The music ranged from 60s psychedelia and pop classics to a traditional pipe march. The tender and witty email correspondence between the two gives voice to Al himself, and underpins Karine’s week-long meditation on the role that song plays in each of our stories of living and dying – as lullaby and love letter, memory marker and memorial.
In this first essay Karine describes making the offer of the private gig and being overwhelmed by Al’s response, starting what would be remarkable collaboration for them both.
Written and Presented by Karine Polwart Producer by Peter McManus
Karine Polwart’s amazing song about Trump and his Scottish roots, “I Burn But I Am Not Consumed”
Filmed live by the BBC at the opening concert of Celtic Connections Festival in Glasgow, “it”I Burn But I Am Not Consumed” was performed with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra as a prelude to Karine’s song “Cover Your Eyes” which was used in the award-winning documentary ‘You’ve Been Trumped’ about the construction of a luxury golf course on a beach in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, and Trump’s shocking treatment of a Scottish family and his attempts to force them off their land.
KARINE POLWART: In performance with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Celtic Connections, Thursday 19th January 2017 | Watch the performance