The Big Concert – review

Raploch, StirlingMidsummer drizzle hung thick over Stirling Castle and an audience of thousands huddled on blankets and sinking camping stools. They came armed with soggy hotdogs and vacuum flasks of tea. They clutched watery ice creams under dripping ponchos. This was the Big Concert: the official opening event of the London 2012 festival, and the first ever visit from Venezuela's feted Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra to the project that their success inspired, Sistema Scotland's Big Noise.T...

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