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Starts: 19:30
Do not miss this exciting collaboration between the best of Scottish and Irish traditions.
GAOL NA nGAEL
This project involves bringing Gaelic Scotland and Ireland together through song, language and music with four concerts in Gaelic speaking parts of Scotland and four concerts in Gaelic speaking parts of Ireland. We are delighted that they have chosen Glenuig Hall as one of their Scottish showcase venues, bringing our own Allan Macdonald home to Glenuig in the process.
The project is funded by Colmcille, the Irish version of Bord na Gaidhlig, and the musicians and singers are:
TIARNÁN O DUINNCHINN (uilleann pipes) Tiarnan Ó Duinnchinn is an award winning Uilleann Piper from Monaghan, described by many as being one of the most influential pipers of his generation. His precise articulate playing and mastery of the pipes leaves no doubt about the subtleties of his musical inventiveness.
LAOISE KELLY (harp) Laoise Kelly is one of Ireland’s leading traditional harpers. Laoise uses a new style of harp playing, combining the techniques of fingerpads in the bass and fingernails in the melody on a thirty-four gut strung Paddy Cafferky harp. Laoise has performed and recorded with the foremost artists in Irish music from The Chieftains to Kate Bush. She represented Ireland at the World Harp Festival in Paraguay. She has 3 critically acclaimed solo albums, and is the director of the Achill International Harp Festival. In 2020 Laoise was awarded the TG4 Gradam Ceoil Musician of the year award.
AILEIN DÒMHNULLACH (song and pib bheag) Allan will need little introduction to locals or anyone with an interest in piping or the Gaelic language, being a renowned scholar and practitioner of both. As a leading figure in the Gaelic musical scene Allan is in demand internationally as a composer, musical director, piper, singer, workshop leader and lecturer on Gaelic music. One of his myriad gifts is to make pibroch accessible and lovable. His work as a scholar-performer reuniting seventeenth-century piping with its Gaelic roots is influencing a whole generation of pipers.
Do not miss this exciting collaboration between the best of Scottish and Irish traditions.
Start time 7:30pm, tickets £18 (under 18s £14). Doors open 7pm, licenced bar.