CFW fiddles Medicinal Brew in Dunoon for Mary’s Meals

Sounds like a lethal combination but it’s a Mix of Music

brought together by Cowal Fiddle Workshop at Dunoon Grammar School at 3.00pm on 21st March.

The concert will include the Fiddle Workshop, with their 2010 junior squad (pictured above and only starting last September); local group, Medicinal Brew and Dunoon Grammar School’s Senior Choir.

The proceeds from the evening will go to Argyll charity,  Dalmally-based Mary’s Meals, currently bringing aid to the earthquake stricken Haiti, where they have been working since 2006.

In 1992  two brother fish farmers from Dalmally set off to Bosnia with a jeep load of necessities given by local people.

When they got back, they discovered that the public had carried on donating and their garage was now full.

This was the start of Scottish International Relief (SIR), which has grown ever since.

10 years later when one of the brothers, Magnus (Macfarlane Barrow), was working in Malawi, a young boy, whose mother was dying of AIDS, was asked what he would like more than anything else. ‘To have enough to eat and to go to school one day’.he said.  This was the beginning of Mary’s Meals.

The charity aims to provide chronically hungry children with one meal a day – in school. In this way the children are encouraged to gain the education that can lift them out of poverty in later life.

The mother said all that was left for her was to pray for her children that someone might look after them after she had died. She knew that the AIDS epidemic has created 1 million orphans in Malawi alone.

Cowal Fiddle Workshop is asking if  you could be a someone?

Tickets for the afternoon concert are available at Bookpoint n Dunoon, at Innellan & Strachur Post Offices and at Delicate Essence in Kirn. The price is £6.00 and £2.00 for children.