INGRID (ENGLISH VERSION)

ADVENTURE

I started getting involved with music in May 2028 and this happened within the boundaries of my wanting to make an old dream come true. I didn't compose my own music, but I covered an album, working with Johanna, our new vocalist. When I was a child and I had just discovered Celtic music, I'd just found out about a record with Welsh songs, which also included the very first song I ever sang on the Celtic festival: Y Ddau Farch. Since then I have had a very distant dream to cover this album, using musicians from my own background and not the band. This dream of mine existed much before the band was formed, however, I'd known Bryan since then, so I was thinking I'd definitely work with him too. The whole situation fitted perfectly to me now, because I had met more people, who were playing Celtic music and I was sure they would agree with my idea.

The two first people I thought about were Johanna and Bryan. So, one fine morning I called Johanna.

"Hello, it's Johanna", she said half-awake.

"What do you think about the idea of me and you covering an album with Welsh songs?", I said abruptly, without even saying good morning.

"Err...I think it goes well with me...but what do you exactly mean?"

I cracked up and said: "Fine, when you're totally awake and have a coffee, call me back".

Finally, Johanna called me fifteen minutes later and said to me: "What were you exactly telling me about Welsh songs? I didn't catch a single thing".

"Listen", I replied. "When I was a kid, I had an all-time dream to cover a specific record with Welsh songs. Would you like to participate in that project of mine?"

"You mean sing?"

"And play the guitar as well".

"Of course", she answered. "I'm not sure I've ever listened to that album, but Welsh songs, this sounds...WOW!"

I smiled. "This is gonna be an unforgetful experience".

Of course, it would be. I would bring everybody here in Australia and whenever we weren't recording we would take the day off to journeys all around Australia and the islands.

"And do you intend to get more people involved in that?"

"For sure. Bryan is surely going to be in. We also need Nancy in the pipes and I'll probably need musicians from Yorkshire. I'll ask Bryan whether he can call some of them from Blakey Ridge".

And this is what happened. Bryan found my idea wonderful and he instantly rushed to call musicians, most of which I already knew. They were common friends of both of us who were playing music mostly at the Blakey Ridge but also at the Celtic festival in Ireland. I spent the whole summer, 2028, adapting the songs in Musescore 3, so that I could divide the parts in which every musician would play. The way I was working on was exactly the same as the one I was working on when composing symphonic music. Only that instead of symphonic instruments I'd use traditional ones.

An additional member of my project would be Shonna, Bryan's partner. I haven't spoken about Shonna so far, however, I'll make a long reference to her. Most people think I'm so bonded to Raglan Hundred, only because I've got a family with them. What most people are unaware of, is the fact that I have friendly relations with the rest of the guys. Indeed Shonna is the last person I became friends with before 2021 and we are still besties. It's true that I got to know Raglan Hundred through Vivian and Bryan, but there's a gap in the whole story. Most people think I got to know them in 2022 or 2023 after I'd moved back to Norway. However, this is how the whole story goes. In 2021 I'd seen Raglan Hundred live at the Blakey Ridge when their vocalist was still Lisa Harrington. Shonna was just 20 years old and had just joined the band as a backing vocalist. Lisa was the main vocalist, not Shonna. Bryan hadn't met Shonna yet. Sometime later, when I was in a terrible state at the hospital, Vivian visited me bringing Ingmar along. That beautiful day Ingmar and I met for the first time.