Mary Ann Kennedy: Glaschu – Home Town Love Song

Mary Ann Kennedy: Glaschu – Home Town Love Song

May 8, 2019

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...
Mary Ann Kennedy: An Dàn – Gaelic Songs for a Modern World

Mary Ann Kennedy: An Dàn – Gaelic Songs for a Modern World

November 27, 2017

All the Right Notes for Building Listening Post 126. Just as construction cranes on a city landscape signal renewal, so do new songs indicate the vitality of a language. Mary Ann Kennedy, an architect of the Scottish Gaelic Renaissance, builds toward the heavens not...