How a north-east town became an international leader in socially engaged art
ESSAY Mike Scott of The Waterboys with local singers and musicians who took part in a community performance of Room to Roam as it became Huntly’s ‘anthem’ AS the sun sets on a winter afternoon, Huntly is a place of deserted streets and closed-down shopfronts. A once prosperous market town in the agricultural heartland between Aberdeen and Elgin, Huntly (population 4400, average household income £23,000) now tells the sad story of many small towns: economic decline, the slow withdrawal...
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