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Thursday, January 19 - 21, 2012
Bass Concert Hall
$10.00/27.00/32.00

2011-2012 Fine Arts Season Performance

A CELEBRATION OF THE LIFE OF THOMAS FRASER

Written by Duncan McLean
Directed by Vicky Featherstone
Featuring The Lone Star Swing Band

Presented in partnership with the Fusebox Festival

U.S. Premiere!
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 (with the exception of the matinee performance), please join us for a prize drawing and dancing in the Texas dance hall tradition with music by the Lone Star Swing Band.

“…a curious hybrid of music and theatre that recalls the Ceilidh spirit of John McGrath’s The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil… a rousing set of blues-tinged Americana standards that, with fiddle and slide guitar, make the connection between windswept island and lonesome prairie.”
THE GUARDIAN

“It’s a cheery piece of work, with a bit of Country and Western keenly thrown in, a couple of the sort of lines quoted you expect to hear late on after a few whiskies.”
HI-ARTS.CO.UK

Support for Long Gone Lonesome provided in part by RBC Wealth Management

RESOURCES
Long Gone Lonesome website
National Theatre of Scotland blog
National Theatre of Scotland on Twitter
National Theatre of Scotland on Facebook
National Theatre of Scotland on YouTube

CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EVENTS

Brown Bag Lunch
Bring your lunch and join the Lone Star Swing Band for discussion and maybe even a little two stepping!
· Date: January 18, 12:00-1:00 PM
· City of Austin Senior Activity Center, 2874 Shoal Crest Ave. 78705
(Lamar at 29th Street)

Pre-Performance Lecture
· Thursday, January 19, 7PM
· Bass Concert Hall Stage

The Loft
· Saturday, January 21, 6:30-8:00 PM
· Bass Concert Hall, 6th floor

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