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Watch: Musician and storyteller Dr Doric creates song to mark Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

A north-east musician and film-maker has composed a song to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Don Carney – also known as Dr Doric – was inspired to mark Queen’s 70 years on the throne in recognition of the “icon” she is.

The retired academic and award-winning filmmaker performs at events sharing music, story-telling and sometimes even a little magic.

He will be performing at jubilee events next week and decided to tell a little of the Queen’s story through a song many can sing along and dance to.

Creating something topical and unique

Mr Carney has made hundreds of hours of educational footage on Doric and traditional farming and fishing in the north-east. 

Combining his passion for music and preserving heritage, he hopes his song will resonate with people in the area.

The 75-year-old, from Westhill, actually created the tune for God Bless You, Your Majesty a while ago before coming up with the words more recently.

He said: “It was just sitting there I hadn’t done nothing with it I just thought I’m going to see if I can put some words to the tune.

“The words were dead easy to come to. A part of music is story telling for me, I just started storytelling in each verse almost in an incremental way.”

Mr Carney has been passionate about music since he was in his teens, after seeing two guitarists got while on a camping holiday in Ullapool.

Don Carney is looking forward to playing his song at various jubilee events, and believes it will resonate with people. Picture: Kami Thomson/DC Thomson

He got the bug for entertaining, picked up a guitar and can now play several different instruments. He played in a band for 45 years before going solo, describing it as a “fine hobby”.

The grandfather-of-two particularly enjoys creating songs that are topical, such as Covid – and of course, now, the jubilee.

The Queen is ‘an inspiration to us all’

Admitting he was a definite royalist, the musician said he was excited about the Queen’s big anniversary.

“It’s a huge, huge event,” he said. “I think what she has done is incredible and a great example to us all because she hasn’t dodged all the terrors of life. She’s had the same ups and downs like everybody else and she’s come through it and kept going.

“She’s just an inspiration to us all just at her age as well and the great devotion she’s had for this country and the commonwealth as well.”

Performing at a couple of charity events for the jubilee week, Mr Carney said he would wait to see what people’s reaction to the song was.

Mr Carney added: “I’ll just put it into my repertoire and see what people think about it because if they don’t like the words they can still dance to it.

“I tried it out on my family and my wife is my biggest critic, she’s my quality controller, and I sung it to her and she said ‘Oooh that’s nae bad’.

“If I get the ‘It’s nae bad’ line from her then it’s good enough for me.”

“I think they can take the story that I’m telling about the Queen they can affiliate with it, it’s part of what they know about her as well. I’m sure the feelings within the song will be the feelings that they have for the Queen as well.

“So it’s just a bit of celebration and something significant you know. Because they’ll never see this again.”

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