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Gaelic music (Irish: Ceol Gaelach, Scottish Gaelic: Ceòl Gàidhealach) is an umbrella term for any music written in the Gaelic languages of Irish and Scottish Gaelic. [1] To differentiate between the two, the Irish language is typically just referred to as "Irish", or sometimes as "Gaeilge" (pronounced "gehl-guh"); Scottish Gaelic is referred to as "Gàidhlig" (commonly pronounced as "GAH-lick").
Sung entirely in Irish, it was the theme song to the 1987 BBC documentary The Celts and Channel 4's Gaelic Games coverage. The video for the song was filmed at Bodiam Castle . The B-side of the single, "Eclipse", is the song "Deireadh An Tuath" (found on Enya / The Celts album), played backwards.
Reel Music (1991) Another Country (1992) An Irish Evening (1992, live) The Best of the Chieftains (1992, compilation) Far and Away original motion picture soundtrack (with John Williams) (1992) The Celtic Harp: A Tribute to Edward Bunting (1993) (with The Belfast Harp Orchestra) The Long Black Veil (1995) Film Cuts (1996) Santiago (1996)
BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Scottish Gaelic language radio station owned and operated by BBC Scotland, a division of the BBC. The station was launched in 1985 and broadcasts Gaelic-language programming with the simulcast of BBC Radio Scotland. Its headquarters is located on Seaforth Road, Stornoway along with BBC Alba and MG Alba.
Raidió Rí-Rá – Conradh na Gaeilge-run youth-orientated chart music station, currently broadcasting on the internet and in Dublin, Cork, Limerick and Galway on DAB. The station also broadcasts an hour long programme on weekday nights on Raidió na Gaeltachta and is the only youth radio station in a Celtic language.
On 20 May 1994 Kenna sang the 23rd psalm in Gaelic at the funeral service of Labour Party leader John Smith. [10] [11] She would later reprise the performance for the 2003 TV film The Deal. Campbell was the principal tutor in Gaelic and Scottish song at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, and in 2009 received an honorary degree. [3] [12]
Horslips are an Irish Celtic rock band that compose, arrange and perform songs frequently inspired by traditional Irish airs, jigs and reels.The group are regarded as "founding fathers of Celtic rock" [1] for their fusion of traditional Irish music with rock music and went on to inspire many local and international acts.
Gaelic folk music or Gaelic traditional music is the folk music of Goidelic-speaking communities in Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, often including lyrics in those languages. Characteristic forms of Gaelic music include sean-nós and puirt à beul singing, piobaireachd , jigs , reels , and strathspeys .