French-Scottish Cultural Exchange

It is not uncommon to find villages sponsoring evenings in which one cultural group (here it is the Scots) join in with the French to share aspects of their culture. Last Saturday we enjoyed an evening in Beaumont en Perigord (a British Bastide town) in which there was a demonstration of traditional Scottish dancing, a dinner featuring Scottish food a la francaise, and music. There were two principle singers, a French woman who sang in the tradition of the music-hall and a man who sang from the thistle tradition. It was a fun evening shared with French and Scottish friends.