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...
Julie Fowlis: Alterum

Julie Fowlis: Alterum

April 24, 2018

Angel and Siren Listening Post 147. The starting point is harmony between Scottish Gaelic—“spoken for over a thousand years,” Julie Fowlis observes, “yet considered otherworldly on its own shores”—and her enchanting, heaven-to-earth voice. On Alterum, she approaches...