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The S​.​S. Shieldhall

from The Road to Mandalay by The Friends of Fiddler’s Green

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The S.S. Shieldhall (lead vocal: Tam)
A tribute to user fees, Scottish style. All seven S.S. Shieldhalls used to haul sewage sludge from Glasgow and dump it in the Firth of Clyde (as close to Ireland as possible, according to Tam). People took day trips on them to watch the process. One ship is preserved in a maritime museum in England. Sans cargo, I hope.

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from The Road to Mandalay, released December 28, 2021

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Laurence Stevenson Brighton, Ontario

Having been born in Scotland and moved to Canada in my high school years, my life has followed parallel (but musically related) paths.
A career in radio, firstly as a radio news tech then a sound effects guy to creator of the CBC Radio Experimental Audio Room and finally as an international award winning radio producer for the popular show, Outfront, has been tracked alongside a life as a fiddler.
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