Donegal Bonus Tracks and Seinn Spioradail
Anna shares bonus material from Travelling Folk's trip to Donegal and explores a new exhibition, Seinn Spioradail, highlighting traditional forms of sacred and spiritual Gaelic singing.
In the run up to Saint Patrick's Day, Anna shares unheard bonus material from some of the amazing people featured on Travelling Folk's Donegal special. This week, Capercaillie's Manus Lunny and Altan's Mairéad Nà Mhaonaigh talk about the remarkable success of musicians from this remote nook of the north west of Ireland.
Dr Frances Wilkins, a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen, has spent the last six years undertaking fieldwork in the West Highlands and Western Isles and exploring sacred and spiritual singing from the region. Her research comes to life in a new interactive exhibition, Seinn Spioradail: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands, which she has co-curated with designer Ronan Martin. The exhibition launched in Stornoway and will tour Hebridean communities in 2024 and 2025. Dr Frances Wilkins and Gaelic singer Torquil MacLeod join Anna live to explore how sacred singing was, and continues to be, integral to many aspects of community life.
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Four Men and a Dog
Bertha
- Dr. A's Secret Remedies.
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From The Ground
Braver One
- From The Ground.
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Fraser Fifield with Chris Stout and Catriona McKay
The Auld Road O Lumphanan
- One Great Circle.
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Daniel O’Donnell
My Donegal Shore
- The Gold Collection.
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Capercaillie
La Paella Grande
- To The Moon.
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²Ñà ²Ô°ù²¹²Ô
Crow Flies
- Ù°ù²¹°ù.
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Talisk
Maverick
- Single.
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Outliers
Salvage
- Outliers.
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Mairéad Nà Mhaonaigh & Frankie Kennedy
An Peata Sa Chistineach / An Fathach Éireannach / Atholl Highlanders
- Ceol Aduaidh.
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Enya
Orinoco Flow
- Watermark.
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Altan
The Humours of Whiskey / The Fairy Jig / The Humours of Whiskey
- Altan.
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Altan
Aingeal an Oilean (Island Angel)
- Island Angel.
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Brìghde Chaimbeul
Bonn Beinn Eadarra (The Haunting)
- Carry Them With Us.
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Kris Drever
I Didn’t Try Hard Enough
- If Wishes Were Horses.
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The Waifs
Nothing New
- Up All Night.
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Frances Wilkins & Claire White
Hadd Dee Tongue
- Blyde Lasses.
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Staffin Free Church congregation, January 2020.
SHADES 284 Staffin
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TORCUIL MACLEOD
SHADES 114, Macleod (Marbh-Rann do Ishbel NicLeòid)
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St Brendan’s Church, Craigston congregation
SHADES 158, Craigston (A Mhoire Mhin-Gheal)
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Spell Songs
Heron – Live At Birmingham Symphony Hall
- Gifts of Light.
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Gillian Fleetwood
Walnut Waltz
- Together With Yourself at Sea Level.
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Richard Thompson
Waltzing’s For Dreamers
- Amnesia.
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Project Smok
Baltimore
- The Outset.
Broadcast
- Thu 22 Feb 2024 20:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland