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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Yale Professor Willie Ruff, jazz musician and scholar, brought together three congregations "separated by custom and law," but united in belief and their devotion to a form of psalm singing that spans ...
Composers Craig Armstrong and Calum Martin have spoken about their fears for the future of Gaelic psalm singing. Mr Armstrong, best known for his film scores including Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, ...
As the big blue and yellow striped tent goes up yet again on Lews Castle Green, musicians and audiences from both sides of the Atlantic are preparing to converge on Stornoway for the 21st Hebridean ...
Scottish Gaelic psalm singing is an important part of the language and culture, but this centuries-old tradition is now becoming endangered. Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic.
The Scottish TV and Radio Presenter Joy Dunlop is set to sing in Gaelic for the King and Queen at St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...
A special Yale documentary retraces the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing from Scotland into African-American, Native-American, and white-American religious song ...
Welsh language heist drama, Dal y Mellt, is being streamed on Netflix with the title, Rough Cut. Scottish Gaelic psalm singing is an important part of the language and culture, but this centuries-old ...
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