Mary Ann Kennedy: Glaschu – Home Town Love Song

Mary Ann Kennedy: Glaschu – Home Town Love Song

Gaelopolis Listening Post 200. When Mary Ann Kennedy was artist-in-residence at the Gaelic College on Skye, in the Inner Hebrides, it occurred to her that Gaels love to sing about home, which usually means Scotland’s Highlands and Islands—their mountain mists and...
Julie Fowlis: Gach Sgeul

Julie Fowlis: Gach Sgeul

Fresh Gael Listening Post 5. If you’ve heard that Scottish Gaelic is an endangered language, then listening to Julie Fowlis might cause some cognitive dissonance. Her voice is so angelic it seems more likely that people would be studying just to be able to understand...