There has been some discussion on here before, about getting this music into the ears of “normal” audiences. I’m a harper, not a piper, and so I play harp versions of these tunes. This is[…]
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There has been some discussion on here before, about getting this music into the ears of “normal” audiences. I’m a harper, not a piper, and so I play harp versions of these tunes. This is[…]
At Scoil na gCláirseach last month I presented a lecture and a workshop on the medieval Gaelic harp traditions. The lecture outlined my recent work on the setup and tuning of the medieval Gaelic harps,[…]
For some years now, in my teaching and performance of historical Gaelic harp music, I have been holding up “Burns March” as the only extant notated ceòl mór from the Gaelic harp traditons of Scotland[…]