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Published: Thursday, 31st July, 2008 08:05

Three bursary winners

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CULTURE minister, MSP Linda Fabiani travelled to Prestonpans last Wednesday to present the town’s fifth annual bursary awards.

The awards provide a grant of £2,000 for up to three artists, based in the Prestonpans area, to carry out a creative project connected to the town’s heritage.

This year’s winners were Kelly Ross, Coreen Scott and Carole Melrose.

Kelly, an actress from Port Seton, won the Burriss Bursary Award; the Lord Novar Award went to singer, Coreen, from Gifford, and the Sir John Ross Fellowship went to one of last years winners, musician Carole Melrose from Cockenzie.

Kelly and Coreen will pool their talents to create a series of musical dramatisations based on some of the 40 major historical murals across the town.

Carole, who plays the double bass, will work on orchestrating pieces pioneered at ‘jam’ sessions in the Gothenburg.

The awards are funded by the Prestoungrange Arts Festival, established almost 10 years ago to help regenerate Prestonpans through heritage and the arts.

Dr Gordon Prestoungrange, the Baron of Prestoungrange, who set up the arts festival, said: “It is our ambition to really put Prestonpans on the map for its outstanding creativity and its fascinating heritage.

“Its reputation is certainly growing,” he added.

A ‘backwards meal’ (dessert, main course and starters) was also won on the evening by Tami Williams, for her poem entitled ‘Oor Auntie Gena’, inspired by poet William McGonagall.

The Burriss Bursary project is the main feature of an exhibition at the Prestoungrange Gothenburg, where 100 works of art by local artists are on display, to tie in with centenary celebrations at the historic pub.

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