Backing Dundee
The city council’s stress on submitting a “people’s bid” is also to be lauded, as Dundee – unlike its oil-bloated northern counterpart – is a place without airs and graces or ostentation.
Consider also the ultimate embodiment of this facet of Dundee’s wide-ranging culture, the late and greatly lamented Michael Marra. Listen to his masterly songs and marvel at the breadth of his inspiration relating not just to the ordinary people of his home city but to the world at large. His family’s decision to set up a trust fund towards the formation of an El Sistema Orchestra Project for disadvantaged children in Dundee should also be mentioned.
Bob Peden
Causewayend Crescent
Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire