Podcast-FeedBill Adair, set 1
Bill Adair, performing at the Collins Gallery during the Merchant City Festival 2008
Next year, 2009, marks the 50th anniversary of the worst mining accident in Scotland in the 20th century, when on 18 September 1959, smoke and fumes from an underground fire at Auchengeich Colliery in the small Lanarkshire mining community of Bridgend caused 47 miners to lose their lives. It was estimated that of the 100 or so miners’ homes in Bridgend, 80% lost a relative in the disaster.
Written by Bill Adair from Cumbernauld and recorded by the Bridgend Sessions Band, the CD ‘Along the Miners’ Rows’ is due for release at the end of September.
Listen now! (18:06min / 8MB)
- Celtic Music Radio
- Celtic Music radio website
- Bill Adair
- Bill Adair's Blues
- Merchant City Festival
- Glasgow's Merchant City Festival