There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter where I am. If I hear it, it just brings me back to my youth in Staffin. It brings me back to happy events … and very ...
The Irish are coming, the Irish are coming! Actually, a number of them are already here — and they”re even singing about it. One whose voice truly rings with the music of the fair isle is Mary Mc ...
CRAIG Armstrong first heard Gaelic psalm singing in church when he was just nine or 10. Although he grew up in the east end of Glasgow, his mum was originally from Balintore in Ross-shire, and on ...
When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. "They really, ...
A Gaelic singer who became a "global superstar" more than 100 years ago is to be remembered at next month's Royal National Mòd. Oban-born Jessie MacLachlan sang for Queen Victoria and performed in ...
Auditions are now underway for next May's Eurovision Song Contest — that often-ridiculed television spectacle that has drawn millions of viewers around the world every year since 1956. In 2012 the ...
They told him the form of psalm singing did not survive among white Presbyterian churches in the United States, but a handful of Scottish churches still practiced it in the original Gaelic. When he ...
More than 70 award-winning singers have gathered in Glasgow for a celebration of Gaelic songs. The group was made up of Royal National Mòd gold medallists, with the oldest of the singers in their 80s.
African-American Baptists, white Baptists from Appalachia and Presbyterian Scottish Highlanders are gathering at Yale University to celebrate a shared tradition. It's called line singing, and it's ...