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Episode 4
Episode 4 of 6
Scottish and Irish Gaelic musicians play together. This edition features Rona Lightfoot performing canntaireachd, an oral music form traditionally used to teach pipe tunes.
Six-part series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions to sing and play together with no audience except themselves, using a house band of their peers.
The episode opens with Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand), performed by Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes. Rona Lightfoot performs canntaireachd, an oral music form traditionally used to teach and pass on pipe tunes that Rona has made her own, elevating it to a kind of Gaelic scat singing.
Last on
Fri 10 Dec 2010
20:30
Broadcast
- Fri 10 Dec 2010 20:30