after a great deal of effort it was eventually passed unanimously on this no seen on dru's day bank holiday scotland act two thousand and seven sin and is the is no officially a bank quality but what does a bank holiday mean a person or a business is a load to postpone a financial transaction until the next working day but it doesn't or blind any employer not even the banks to give their workers a day off so the recognition of the holiday is unfortunately still very patchy the scottish government recognises that the scottish parliament recognise a fundamental but never summer holiday for staff yes the scottish parliament recognises that but. in a local government i'm afraid that a sponsor has been very disappointing and that's the idea because look i thought jobs in charge of the schools and many people would argue that what makes the whole idea real holiday is of a school holidays so that families can come enjoy it to go without you even

objective and right into local authorities and i firmly believe that if if it was a school holiday there will be a huge increase in the recognition because most parents would want to stick the d. off to celebrate with the children and not in turn would put more pressure on employers both in the public sector and in the private sector to get wider recognition of the scene under the holiday because one of the rational arguments against on these attempts skeptics of scottish life from the c.b.i. for example was if you have another hole where they will lose so much productivity will lose so much business etc but you don't quite see it that way do you when you look at the international comparison scotland is near the bottom of the international league in terms of the number of public holidays and we are one of the few countries of the world that doesn't have a national holiday i mean the french of go still be there. but st patrick's day

united states of america even which is a very business oriented capitalistic country they've got to at least two big national holidays namely independence day and thanksgiving the and thanksgiving the always falls on our own under these. i don't see why we shouldn't have us in on tuesday holiday in order to give all the people of scotland the opportunity to celebrate national identity the cultural diversity on the membership of the international community so when you're successful as i'm sure you will be on your track record of persuading the local authorities stop a school holiday make it a family occasion one of these families going to be doing and what's this new initiative that the suntan duce de fer saturday will this was an initiative that was started in bilbao zero in the basque country and it began as a kind of an ttyl to black friday black faith is very much well most of consumerism

. it's the epitome of a greedy grasping selfish chrysalis society theory that is an antidote to that because they're trying to promote fairness to try to pull a caring sharing society under doing it through the celebration of a cultural events and scotland for the first time this year is no shearing in not places like d.c. and law school and middle of the in which are already committed and i would hope that in time there will be many cities towns and communities through scotland to join in this in andries fear started these other british ns and towards the the last saturday of november and this is an opportunity for people to buy attending cultural events of some of the revenues going to good causes i think we can probably safe to say the patron saint some time there with a smile that the stuff well of course is the the the cost cost to hear about the little. in the fishies and the sea of that around so many people and i do think

that if we are into the spirit of sit andriy then trying to promote a caring sharing society and encouraging encouraging individuals to just on scene under is day to think not just of themselves but of what they can do to help other people i think be a great thing and i'm pleased to see that the scottish government is promoting the initiative it's called make someone's day come down a bit loaves and fishes. title to the exam and quick for appearing on the program to talk about the new listers for sometimes there and i have no need to tell the set of the same under the committee the drill. thank you very much alex i made sure that is filled up with something suitable once in under is the. thank you very much thank you. the leadership of the fair saturday campaign came from the basque country and is quickly spread internationally alex has been speaking to you already

about the genesis of the movement and why sit empty for saturday as a welcome addition to international rate you are down but out there you have welcome to the exam and show thank you alex it's great to be on thank you yeah dave tell us a bit about the genesis the beginnings of the fair site of the movement this is a crazy idea born in two thousand and fourteen he the city and been the originals of this game the best country a group of young people we were worried about the kind of war we were created for the future so complex times sometimes we are much more focused on destroying groups as between countries and cultures so we we thought about. build another day different day to day after black friday way not to try to mobilize to provoke a massive mobilization our own culture and instead of doing that by reducing the crisis by doing that by social empathy so every cultural event that but this abates

should shoot for a social cause a project of the choice so this is how we have started in bilbao with only seventeen choirs and now we are trying to grow globally speaking so as black friday is all about receiving fair saturday is all about giving so many countries participating from that small beginning and twenty fourteen and babalu these year this year in two thousand and eighteen we have our own six hundred and seven hundred events of the war one hundred c.d.'s and if things seven eight different countries and we are grue we mean so you have to that is seven hundred events and one hundred seventy s. over yet seven countries it countries yet we are close in new c.d.'s for the next year probably the first in the states for example so how exciting. the fate of south of the movement that this year for the first state in scotland is

participating in the fair centime to saturday yeah i mean these trolleys one of the best news for the movement we start the conversation through the british council and in we had the choice to share the project we've with many people think it to you alex as well we've shared a project with the scottish government are we in the skin or he's the up and unsure as was rarey especially because if there isn't a nation. folk use and culture and show and buffy this is scotland because how humble a simple idea would be powerful is being embraced for a whole nation and make you need it date for giving it a to be in a share and it's trying to shape the around culture and social impact it so what would the message from the fans south of the movement and to nationally and from you and bobo be to the sometime tuesday fair saturday movement engaging in its

first celebration of sometime tuesday fair saturday our mess it's with a b. we want to create breeds of bridges between different trust the poll among the sense and why not that there's ways to do is through a culture because through culture we be able to reach too bad there should be it's will like to say to all the scottish people to be part of creed and to but you see they supporting the schools are going to because they will be supporting churchill courses at the same time and he's a good new great or thank you john but i think i did congratulations on the fair saturday movement and best wishes for for this year's event. coming up after the break i'll be speaking to some of scotland's imagine up to stick talent who are comparing notes with some of our more to stop list international stars join us said .

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i mean i do find most unwelcome even even the slightest of that i never thought of . and i've been doing this instance the late ninety's there is no doubt about the transformation of the city center and increasingly. is an incredible achievement and it's one that's a very expensive achievement has become at least in the a more i would have livable place to use this kind of job in the long time effects of this are going to. take a long time to be measured because every just beginning. welcome back in our brains night special we featured the music of robbie's namesake ryan by who had just launched his first cd we had a great reaction to ryan's reworking of traditional binds love song. alice caught

up with ryan edge and to see how this career is developing. and i'm delighted to be joined once again on the excitement show but ryan joseph ryan but. you appear to be seeing a foreign cast so the show and security are popular online so what would tell me how your record been doing since and what's happening is based actually is. the first album has that kind of been gathered steam and still clean shows. that this will has just audience an extra audience to my music so it's been since i last in his been it's been going well and you have one of the scottish young scottish off the sort of body the new interpretation you dimension to the robot buns the magnificent a body a walk i think robot buns would have been quite pleased as namesake was taking is his material in a different direction would you know well i would like to think so with the seven

songs i just thought that everything was maybe a bit was a little you know short they didn't tighten with the open so i thought finding and tell them i'm a bit differently look at it from a different angle and he was a bit of a punk himself so there's a couple here there's been a change in your son says there's been just not to be all that sex drugs and rock'n'roll rock star life but i was talking to you just a bit to see who became a father killing robot buns for the first time so yeah my life has changed slightly in the last couple of weeks but for the bear. and the house and stared baby for two weeks it's been great because a fully responsible. absolutely absolutely absolutely. fully responsible adult of that something he threw at the baby's head so you can take the oath of alex salmond quick thank you so much just fine congrats thank you.

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styles. she did wellington killing him welcome to this very special scene of the alex i'm sure here from edinburgh we had of course to discuss music across the generations and kitman if i may start with you about a young musician studying at kyoto people see starting out for sale i think it may be sorry i went on to purcell and what for tonight i want to queue i'm your studies to london from scotland ever i could stay in scotland i would. love it here but unfortunately just the option to get inside the sheer mind of our teacher is things like that is kind of second to none if you want to get in the scene. to be there obviously there are opportunities there when you when you play events and you've got to give us an idea of what if you please what if you've got where very lucky elsley being on music college you get to play a lot it's nice because sometimes you'll get an email and. tomorrow for this

concert can you come and it's just great never really know what's going to pop up yeah it's just all around the place really here she did you see can you understand from from point of view why she might despite wanting to study and all the calendar if you are going to go to london for music the guildhall is the place to go and. i think there is a critical mass when it comes to be particularly classical music and a really big city like london would have all the number of orchestras and things is going to combine. traditional scottish i mean obviously tremendous audiences and scotland but that's giving you an international reach as well though i'm sure you've been maybe. parts we have to get to hear more than. amazingly and they always were true the film. it turns a great company i knew it was said that scotland coming be in

a traditional musician from. as a calling card it's a great calling card we've got a great reputation girl so world for music it's not just boston since it's the other things it's all the bonds of people. so that you have called me around which of course have been very much project based clearly extends to our artists. and it's beginning i think to extend to classical as well because we are producing some really fine young classical musicians across the disciplines which is great i mean i want to see school wouldn't producing the basically everything and it turns up sort of the future. where what's next for you to go top because obviously it's going to be there and you're hard from from she know high self-esteem you know if you're going to study in london not that it's a place to go what are you what are your plans for the future less plans more hopes i think. for me a freelance career would be the dream i love the fact that as a student people kind of dropped into all sorts of crazy things so like musicals

and chamber music and some recordings and orchestra and whatever i think keeping that variety really keeps it alive and you don't get stuck in your little classical musician bubble so you know if you were to turn the clocks back to caitlin's young and fantastic here is anything in your career and your musical career that you might have done differently anywhere you just pleased with what you've done and ditch mendis and i you get cheap because i want to listen to you if you've been tempted by the bright lights. so young woman did you feel that london was going to be any point twenty four hours in london is that usually enough. even when i was younger i was never going to i think money i keep on people my career has been an accidental and i think all the base could put into a i'm delighted to and want to do freelance because so much more exciting so it's transit. that's what makes it good and you get all sorts of opportunities. when

you're feeling oncet i think i think i've just kind of fallen into what's amanda's a special and i know that she knew someone whose love to sing a scottish falls that people very familiar with but also look to positive abundance melody to go back to the original melody that bobbins actually say to that to the woods so give us an example of that well this is a this is probably one of most famous ones of my life i read a drill in which george thompson his aide at the state to the tune called would down in the balloon because he didn't like the major theme of into the ticket which was but i'm still. the one that thompson said it is a one of a delicious yes a lot of is like that the ones that are still a one c. is a good tennessee. the other one is. that's

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a thud which brings me on to it said by education and. of education free education advice to education for young people how important a part does news of course should music plea in education of our children from prime you want upward crucial. before a primary one it should be in the notice of its it is more than the nursery it is when you get into primary one you get to choose the right thing and all this kind of think it's getting in some places is getting better. but music is a integral part of it and it can get out so much everywhere i'm sure you could even the whole time we had someone come in and speak to us i ask you once and they said that music actually is one of the most employ of all degrees because if you've gone and done a music degree and you go off into the world people see that you're a musician in that you're disciplined you can force yourself to practice. you know you organize if you're not like most musicians going to ask about basically you know you've got all these life skills that you need lots of people of course from

you thinking that was wonderful she now will get to hear from you can't win at the end of the show when you going to give us a piece on you opal but in the meantime alex has the gift to you both well i still owe my best political life. you have some of your greatest songs some bombs or original set to go off my love's like a red rose but bombs also said that freedom and whiskey going together and so. should. the whiskey. road all your musical friends. should get you a bigger quake. she didn't get and thank you very much for inspiring great thank you. thank. same time just for saturday is a wonderful concept as a counterpoint to black friday at hill city of giving rather than receiving of which from what we know of i'm to from the gospels he would have approved it might

provide the city i'm just a committee with the impetus to secure the national family day of celebration for which they have long strived as well as giving the country an opportunity to make a statement of solidarity with those up against it at home and internationally let us hope so in any event the celebration of scotland's national day will always provide a showcase for the best in emerging artistic talents and so what better way to end our special program than to be played out by caitlin on her favorite instrument the oval.

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