Farewell Kenny Kirsopp

It wasn't your average  funeral - not if crowd numbers are anything to go by. We waited in the cold, the queue of mourners increasing with every beat of our hearts. It wasn't so much goodbye as a fond farewell to a much loved musician who, in a calling where  extrovert is the norm,  was perhaps the extrovert's extrovert.

We're talking about saxophonist and piper - Kenny Kirsopp (Kenny the Sax).

Given his love for the pipes it was only right and proper that the cortege was headed by a pipe band in full regalia. 

Inside the crem, the Humanist Celebrant spoke at length on Kenny's life with several humourous anecdotes although, as someone said to me, there are some even funnier incidents that may have been considered too inappropriate!  

Afterwards, we made our way down to the Sundial pub where friends and fellow musicians, old and new renewed acquaintance and tucked into a feast that would have fed the 5,000 and maybe a few more.

On stage Big Red and the Grinners were rockin' and rollin' but, by this time, so was I.

Rest In Peace Kenny, you'll be sadly missed. Lance