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Nóirín Ní Riain (born 12 June 1951) is an Irish singer, writer, teacher, theologian, and authority on Gregorian Chant (plainchant, plainsong).She is primarily known for spiritual songs, [1] but also sings Celtic music, sean-nós and Indian songs.
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").
Christine Primrose in 2014. Christine Primrose MBE (Scottish Gaelic: Cairistìona Primrose; born 17 February 1950) [1] is a Gaelic singer and music teacher. She was born in Carloway, Lewis, but she currently lives on the Isle of Skye.
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 .
Mary Jane Lamond (Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Sìne Nic Laomuinn, born 1960) is a Canadian Celtic folk musician who performs traditional Canadian Gaelic folk songs from Cape Breton Island. [1] Her music combines traditional and contemporary material.
Explanations and fascinating information are in English, a bonus for many like myself, whose love of the Gaelic does not extend to being able to read it! I have bought this book as a present for a young musician who is a wonderful exponent herself of the Gaelic music tradition but I am so enchanted with it I shall now have to buy myself a copy.”
Niteworks launched their debut album, NW, in October 2015 with a sold-out gig at Glasgow's SWG3 Warehouse. The album draws further on the band's Skye roots and Gaelic upbringing and drew comparisons to the legendary Martyn Bennett. [4] The band capped off 2015 by opening the show at the Scottish Trad Music Awards at Dundee's Caird Hall. [5]
"Éamonn an Chnoic" ("Ned of the Hill") is a popular Sean nos song in traditional Irish music.It is a slow, mournful ballad with a somber theme and no chorus.. The song is attributed to Éamonn Ó Riain (Edmund O'Ryan [1]) (d. c. 1724), an early 18th-century County Tipperary folk hero, composer of Irish bardic poetry, and rapparee; an outlawed Jacobite from the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who ...