Named after Scottish poet Robert Burn, Burns Night is an evening beloved by Scots at home and abroad. It is a small comfort in the dark, dank January of the home country. The fact that the upper classes spurned and humiliated him, and his religious elders tormented him for having a libido, has also made him a minor hero of Socialists, atheists, and Libertines across the world, who can be convinced to a meal of haggis washed down with whiskey and poetry. Folk singer Nina Nesbitt prepared for her appearance on the BBC’s Burns Night festivities by giving her reading of “Caledonia.” Continue reading »