Jane Brown from the Globe Inn had arranged this in the theatre Royal in Dumfries and what a superb afternoons entertainment this was.  Although disappointing that there were so few local people to support the event thankfully people had travelled from far and wide to see the performance.

 This was an extraordinary achievement given that the cast of the Jolly Beggers were all still at school, the oldest was 16 add to that, they are from school 61 in St Petersburg, Russia and I'm sure that you will appreciate the enormous effort which has gone into learning the verse in auld Scots.

The performance was complemented by some of our own youths like young burnsian of the year piper Calum Brown.

Well worth the tie to see the potential and talent of our planets youths.