strathspey Archive: Bobby Brown

I picked this up from the accordion newsgroup:

Alas, there's bad news about Bobby Brown: he was badly injured in a car
crash May 29 -- two days before he and The Scottish Accent were to play at a
Scottish Country Dance in Washington, DC. He is recovering at home with
multiple broken bones. His son, Laird, and the band did a good job,
although Bobby's absence was definitely noticeable.
Bobby Brown is the premier Scottish accordionist in Canada and one of the top
in North America. Besides playing great SCD he has promoted much traditional
music.
Cheers,
Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, NH

In a message dated 6/14/2003 1:25:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
SMiskoe@aol.com writes:

> I picked this up from the accordion newsgroup:
>
> Alas, there's bad news about Bobby Brown: he was badly injured in a car
> crash May 29 -- two days before he and The Scottish Accent were to play at a
> Scottish Country Dance in Washington, DC. He is recovering at home with
> multiple broken bones. His son, Laird, and the band did a good job,
> although Bobby's absence was definitely noticeable.
> Bobby Brown is the premier Scottish accordionist in Canada and one of the
> top
> in North America. Besides playing great SCD he has promoted much
> traditional
> music.
> Cheers,
> Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, NH
>
Don't want people panicking. Bobby was hurt in the car accident, but was
allowed home the same day as the accident. He broke his Knee and Sternum (chest
bone) which of course makes holding an accordian difficult to say the least.
I am sure he would appreciate cards......well wishes etc.......

Hopefully he'll be back playing before too long.
As Sylvia said, he was missed in DC, but the band did a great job.

Elaine
Va, USA

Bobby broke his sternum in a car accident (May 29th, I believe), and did indeed
miss the DC event. However, he was able to travel to the Montreal Weekend a
week after the DC event, and play for us at the Saturday gala dance on June
7th. I don't know if that is a testament to quick healing, hearty
constitition, good painkillers, a sense of duty, or stubborness!

Understandably, he was not physically at his best, but folks enjoyed and
appreciated his playing greatly.

BTW I missed the dance, but I believe that Bobby played keyboard, and Kathy
Fraser played accordion...

Adriana Linden
Montréal QC

--- SMiskoe@aol.com wrote: > I picked this up from the accordion newsgroup:
>
> Alas, there's bad news about Bobby Brown: he was badly injured in a car
> crash May 29 -- two days before he and The Scottish Accent were to play at a
> Scottish Country Dance in Washington, DC. He is recovering at home with
> multiple broken bones. His son, Laird, and the band did a good job,
> although Bobby's absence was definitely noticeable.
> Bobby Brown is the premier Scottish accordionist in Canada and one of the top
>
> in North America. Besides playing great SCD he has promoted much traditional
>
> music.
> Cheers,
> Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, NH
>

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Nope, Bobby played the accordion! He couldn't lift it himself, but once he
was strapped in he performed admirably. Very pale, and not as full of his
usual banter, but the music was great and we were relieved to see him doing
so well. I hope he didn't suffer too much for it the next day.

Norah Link
Montreal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: adriana linden [mailto:adrianalinden@yahoo.com]
> Sent: June 14, 2003 1:44 PM
> To: strathspey@strathspey.org
> Subject: Re: Bobby Brown
>
>
> Bobby broke his sternum in a car accident (May 29th, I believe),
> and did indeed
> miss the DC event. However, he was able to travel to the
> Montreal Weekend a
> week after the DC event, and play for us at the Saturday gala
> dance on June
> 7th. I don't know if that is a testament to quick healing, hearty
> constitition, good painkillers, a sense of duty, or stubborness!
>
> Understandably, he was not physically at his best, but folks enjoyed and
> appreciated his playing greatly.
>
> BTW I missed the dance, but I believe that Bobby played keyboard,
> and Kathy
> Fraser played accordion...
>
> Adriana Linden
> Montrial QC
>
> --- SMiskoe@aol.com wrote: > I picked this up from the accordion
> newsgroup:
> >
> > Alas, there's bad news about Bobby Brown: he was badly injured in a car
> > crash May 29 -- two days before he and The Scottish Accent were
> to play at a
> > Scottish Country Dance in Washington, DC. He is recovering at home with
> > multiple broken bones. His son, Laird, and the band did a good job,
> > although Bobby's absence was definitely noticeable.
> > Bobby Brown is the premier Scottish accordionist in Canada and
> one of the top
> >
> > in North America. Besides playing great SCD he has promoted
> much traditional
> >
> > music.
> > Cheers,
> > Sylvia Miskoe, Concord, NH
> >
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca

On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Norah Link wrote:

> Nope, Bobby played the accordion! He couldn't lift it himself, but once he
> was strapped in he performed admirably. Very pale, and not as full of his
> usual banter, but the music was great and we were relieved to see him doing
> so well. I hope he didn't suffer too much for it the next day.

And -- a first -- he didn't go to any parties after the ball.
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Chuffed is kind of like, you know, gruntled.

Mike
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> Chuffed is kind of like, you know, grunted.
>
> Mike

I have always known, that to be "chuffed" about something is to be quite
pleased about it. A British saying.

Simon

Absolutely.... it means pleased with..... " he looked fare chuffed with
himself" translated.......he looked very pleased with himself.

Elaine

Sylvia forgot to attribute the quote, and that's caused some confusion by
Elaine:

From: Sylvia Miskoe <SMiskoe@aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:24 PM

From: Elaine <Elainerb@aol.com> MISwrote:
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:42 PM
> As Sylvia said, he was missed in DC, but the band did a great job.

It indeed would have been very nice if Sylvia had been with us here in DC.

Here is my original post from which Sylvia quoted. I only posted it to that
newsgroup because someone else started discussing Bobby's fine playing. I
didn't put it here on the Strathspey List to avoid panic, since I only had
the brief information available immediately after the accident.

From: "Helen P." <leap@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: rec.music.makers.squeezebox
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:10 PM
Subject: Bobby Brown (was Cape Breton)
>
> Alas, there's bad news about Bobby Brown: he was badly injured in a car
> crash May 29 -- two days before he and The Scottish Accent were to play at
a
> Scottish Country Dance in Washington, DC. He is recovering at home with
> multiple broken bones. His son, Laird, and the band did a good job,
> although Bobby's absence was definitely noticeable.

I'm utterly delighted to hear that Bobby is doing so well!!!
I've just now posted that more recent good news to the newsgroup.

-- Helen (MD USA)