With Chris retiring from active BD service, the four gallant survivors continued the tradition, playing regularly throughout the region.
September 2014 saw the release of the new CD “Lowp till Ye Cowp” (see Discography for further details).
The Band celebrated its 25th Anniversary on the 27th of October, 2012. This auspicious gathering saw over a hundred dancers & audience crammed into Morpeth St James’ Hall, with Peter Hawkey returning for the night to make up the original band line-up, plus Derek’s daughter Claire Poxton on fiddle.
| The Border Directors in the line-up for the 2013 Northumbrian Minstrelsy Concert at the Sage Gateshead celebrating the generations of work of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries towards the region’s traditional music and song. A second Minstrelsy Concert followed on 26th June 2016 in the same venue, again with the BD in the lineup. |
The band celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2017 at St James’ Hall in Morpeth with a large throng of dancers and a large cake! The line-up was reinforced by the welcome visit of our two escapees, Peter Hawkey and Chris Ormston, plus our frequent guest fiddler and clog dancer Meg Wilson, creating a wall of sound not heard in these parts before. Elaine shared some of the calling duties with our old friends Julie Dixon and Paul Murphy; the party also featured spots by Wercasfolk, Addison Rapper and great singer Jim Mageean.
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