Watercolour Music
Hello
folks,
A little
info on a very special concert coming up in Ardgour – please spread the word to
anyone you think may be interested, and maybe see yourselves there! MA
HOUSE
CONCERT AT WATERCOLOUR ALERT!SUNDAY
23rd AUGUST - 3PMAON
TEANGA:UN ÇHENGEY - A GAELIC REUNION
Well, it's
only taken 6 years since we started doing house concerts at Watercolour - but
Mary Ann will be hosting one at long last in the company of some very special
guests.
Please join
Mary Ann, Ruth Keggin, Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin and friends for an afternoon of
Gaelic connections between Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
This is the
culmination of a year and a half's work in reconnecting the three Gaelic
nations in song, the first time ever that a new music project has been devoted
to this and we would love to share it with you.
If you're
good, you might even get to play with the boat and the plasticene Ruth, Eoghan
and MAK. And we'll show you where the fiddling Pixie cave is...
As ever, it's
best to book a place - please email [email protected] or call us on 01855-841320. Entry is
by donation and as ever we suggest £10 with kids free. Nibbles and drinks
included.
Look forward
to seeing some of you there, and please share this with anyone you think might
be interested.
Mòran Taing!
Mary Ann
& Nickwww.aonteanga.comwww.watercolourmusic.co.uk
AON
TEANGA:UN ÇHENGEY - A GAELIC REUNION
Aon Teanga:Un
Çhengey – whichever way you spell it, sounds the same, means the same - ‘One
Tongue’. Three superbly expressive voices from the three Gaelic nations as one
voice, reuniting the Scottish, Irish and Manx Gaels. Aon Teanga:Un Çhengey (say
it the way it looks in Manx) celebrates the linguistic, musical and cultural
connections of Gaelic as one language between the sister-nations for the first
time in centuries.
A chance
meeting in 2013 at the legendary Watercolour Music studios in Ardgour lies at
the heart of this Gaelic meeting of minds and voices. There, Mary Ann Kennedy,
co-owner of the studios and one of Scotland’s most influential musicians and
broadcasters, met Ruth Keggin, the leading vocalist of the young generation of
the Manx Gaelic revival. Ruth had come to Lochaber to record her debut album,
Sheear, and had invited along another young Gael – Dubliner Eoghan Ó
Ceannabháin, acclaimed seann-nòs singer from a highly regarded Connemara
musical family.
The
inevitable late night chatter around the kitchen table revealed a meeting of
like minds and a common passion for Gaelic song as an expression of a language
with past and future. The scene was set, the voyage charted and Aon Teanga:Un
Çhengey was launched.
With the help
of Isle of Man Arts Council’s Island of Culture 2014 and PRS for Music
Foundation’s Beyond Borders commissioning programme for new music, Comar and
Watercolour Music have teamed up with Belfast’s Gaelic arts centre, Cultúrlann
McAdam Ó Fiaich, to enable Ruth, Mary Ann and Eoghan to develop an album and
live tour of traditional and new-composed songs and music in Scots, Irish and
Manx Gaelic.
As befits a people for whom the main highways were ever seaways,
the ocean is never far from the music, whether it be classic sailor’s ballads,
tragic drowning laments, magical songs of sea creatures or wry commentary on
human exploitation of the marine environment.
Aon Teanga:Un
Çhengey is grateful to Enterprise Music Scotland and Colmcille (The Columba
Project) for their support of live performance in Ireland, Scotland, and the
Isle of Man.
https://twitter.com/1teanga1chengeyhttps://www.facebook.com/aonteangahttps://www.aonteanga.com
Mary
Ann Kennedy
Watercolour
Music Limited
Ardgour
PH33 7AH
Scotland
e:[email protected]
m:
07918-618374
t:
01855-841320
