Music Memory Store - Angus Millar
Published: 29 Jun 2010
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MusicMemory Store – Angus Millar ‘Mo Mhathair’ – Sailing Up the Clyde & Songs of Scotland & Ireland; (CD) Calum Kennedy, Beltona Records. Re-released: 2003, Beltona 101. Calum Kennedy won his Gold Medal at the Royal National Mod, Aberdeen in 1955. This album is a true collection of well-loved oldies but goldies of Scottish songs and well worth hearing the effortless liquid voice of Calum Kennedy in this CD which has all the songs from his two early Beltona LP’s.
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| Angus Millar is a native of Brora in Sutherland and has been teaching Gaelic at Farr High School in Bettyhill for the past six years. He combines his passion for the Gaelic language with a passion for the Gaelic sport, shinty, and coaches the youngsters at Farr in the game. On Oct 9th for the Mòd shinty matches, Angus will be in charge of the North Sutherland Primary team, Farr High School Secondary team, and assistant coach for the Sutherland Senior team ... a busy day! |
| When I was younger I used to make frequent visits to the island of Lewis. The place made a great impression on me; it had a kind of magic that was created by a combination of the people, the landscape, the language and the culture. Various Gaelic musicians remind me of these days but none more so than Calum Kennedy, who himself hailed from the Isle of Lewis. Not only did Calum Kennedy have a fine voice, but he could convey the emotion of a song like no other. Phil Cunningham tells the story of a loud post concert gathering at the Glasgow Celtic Connections festival. Calum turned up and was persuaded to sing a Gaelic song. Phil says that at the close of the song ‘there wasn’t a dry eye in the house’. Of all his Gaelic songs I like ‘Mo Mhathair’ the best because of its beautiful melody and lyrics, and because of the sentiments it contains about a very special person ... mo mhathair. |
| Nuair a bha mise na b’ òige bhithinn a’ dol tric do dh’Eilean Leòdhais. Dhrùidh an t-àite gu mòr orm; bha rudeigin anns na daoine, an àrainneachd, an cànan is an cultar a bha cho taitneach dhomh. Tha mòran de luchd-ciùil a’ toirt nam chuimhne na làithean sin ach tha aon fhear sònraichte ann agus is e sin Calum Ceanadach. Is e Leòdhasach a bh’ ann fhèin. Chan e a-mhàin gun robh guth air leth math aige ach chuireadh e blas is brìgh an òrain tarsainn mar nach cuireadh aon eile. Bidh Phil Cunningham ag aithris mu chuirm-ciùil fhuaimneach an dèidh Fèis Celtic Connections an Glaschu. Thionndaidh Calum suas is thug iad air òran Gàidhlig a sheinn. Thuirt Phil, nuair a sguir Calum a sheinn, nach robh sùil thioram san talla.Dhe na h-òrain aig Calum is e Mo Mhàthair as fheàrr leam a chionn gu bheil am fonn is na facail a’ cur tarsainn iomhaighean inntinneach mu phearsa air leth….mo mhàthair. |
| Copies of this CD are available to borrow, at no cost, from the collection of CD’s selected as MusicMemory Store, from Wick and Thurso Libraries. It can be heard on Mondays 7-8pm on Caithness FM as a part of the Scottish Show with Hughie Manson and on Radio nan Gàidheal. Music Memory Store is a partnership between the Mòd Ghallaibh Fringe and the Highland Libraries – Caithness branches, Wick & Thurso. Contact Mòd Fringe: northtuath@yahoo.co.uk |
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