Tag: song

Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds: Tectonics Festival, Culture Show

11 May 2013

9 voice version of Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Guth na h-eoòin/Voice of the Bird) ‘highlight’ of Glasgow Tectonics Festival 2013! Hanna and the birds in the Scotsman: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/music/news-and-features/celebrating-birdsong-the-colour-and-complexity-of-avian-airs-1-2915930 Hanna on the Culture Show with Janice Forsyth http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s8vt9 ‘A complete and immersive evocation of place and sense, an attempted re-imagining of wilderness landscapes both... Read More ›

Tags: birdsong, event, Gaelic, music, performance, seabirds, song, storytelling

Air falbh leis na h-eòin – Away with the Birds

Hanna Tuulikki's Audio Diary - new entry 29 May

Compass Hill, Canna. Photo by Hanna Tuulikki

Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary: Tracing Lines 19 April 2013 The creation of Air falbh leis na h-eòin: Hanna on tumblr 14 January 2013 Listen here to an extract from Hanna’s diary: Meeting Mary New research suggests birds, like humans, are ‘moved’ by song: read here 23 September 2012 –... Read More ›

Tags: birdsong, Canna, community, Gaelic, John Lorne Campbell, music, performance, seabirds, song

Às an Traigh – From the Shore. Mary Smith, Mary Jane Lamond, Julie Fowlis, Andy Mackinnon

St Kilda film project

An interweaving of Gaelic songs, stories, memories and reflections on relationships between people and place on St Kilda, compiled by three acclaimed Gaelic singers, and drawing on the Tobar an Dualchais archive of oral recordings. A collaboration with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, Lochmaddy, North Uist, and filmmaker Andy Mackinnon. Mary Smith is... Read More ›

Tags: ecology, Gaelic, music, song, storytelling