
Blog Category – Gaelic Song
Preparing for the Gaelic Song & Language Week this July 9-13
There’s still time to reserve a place at the 20th Annual Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, which will be held by ACGA July 9 to 13 in Banner Elk, North Carolina, just before the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games July 12 to 15.
We’re working on getting everything ready for the weeklong event at Lees-MacRae College, which will feature Scottish Gaelic language song classes taught ...
Read MoreHebridean Students Bring Gaelic, Music to NYC for Tartan Day
This past Friday, April 6, was Tartan Day in the United States, and people around the country celebrated Latha an Tartain. New York City hosted its annual Tartan Day Parade on Sixth Avenue, with more than 4,000 registered marchers, including Còmhlan Pìoba Sgoil Lìonacleit, the student pipe band from Sgoil Lìonacleit in the Outer Hebrides.
(See a BBC video report on the band’s trip in Gaelic ...
Read MoreUncovering ‘Hidden History’ in Gaelic Poetry
Gaelic songs can tell us a huge amount about life in Scotland and the surprisingly modern ways in which Gaels saw the world. Even when working with English translations, they reveal the words and thoughts of people who are not normally visible in written histories.
So writes Kevin Grant at the start of his blog for Historic Environment Scotland on “Three Gaelic Bards” and the insight ...
Read MoreGaelic song competition Mòd nan Lochan Mòra to be held June 8-10
Registration Open for 20th Annual Gaelic Song and Language Week
They say time flies, but it’s still hard to believe we will be gathering in North Carolina this July for the 20th Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, held from July 9 to 13 in Banner Elk, just before the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games July 12-15.
Every year since 1998, An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach has held a week of classes taught by some of the ...
Read MoreFirst ‘Oidhche nam Bàrd’ Celebrates Scottish Gaelic Poetry
Everyone, practically everywhere, has heard of Robert Burns and Burns’ Night, but what about Scotland’s Gaelic poets?
They got their due and their own night Jan. 27, when 20 people gathered to celebrate centuries of poets and Gaelic poetry and share poems and songs at Oidhche nam Bàrd in Alexandria, Virginia.
Gàidhlig Photomac, the Scottish Gaelic Learning Community in the Washington, D.C., area, organized the special event, ...
Read More‘S e Nollaig a th’ ann! Students release Gaelic Christmas song
A Scottish Gaelic Christmas song performed by a high school rock band is spreading not just throughout Scotland but worldwide.
“‘S e Nollaig a th’ ann! (It’s Christmas!”) was recorded by Làn Chomais, a Gaelic rock band from Greenfaulds High School, and released Dec. 7.
Làn Chomais (which means full of ability or power), recorded the song with the backing voices of 1,000 students from Gaelic language ...
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