Farewell to Stromness
A nice song to play at a wedding or funeral.
Composer's Note
The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are determined to fight, down to the last person.
Stromness, the second largest town in Orkney (pop. 1500), would be two miles from the uranium mine's core, and the centre most threatened by pollution. Yesnaby is the nearby clifftop beauty spot under whose soil the uranium is known to lie. -- Max Davies
http://www.menyawolfe.com/memorial.html
VisitOrkney.com
There are few pieces which bring tears to my eyes, but "Farewell to Stromness" is certainly one of them. Thank you, Mr. Davies, for expressing so poignantly the helplessness of ordinary people in the face of the military/industrial complex.
If there is anything I can do to assist with the campaign, please let me know
Walter Cairns
Manchester