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 ...
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Sailm nan Daoine (Psalms of the People) review – one man’s quest to keep Gaelic psalm singing alive
Jack Archer’s gentle film follows the immensely likable Rob MacNeacail as he journeys across Scotland and Ireland in a bid to save these traditional songs of people and place ...
NEW HAVEN A dying tradition got an infusion of life this week when disparate communities from the rural South and the Scottish Highlands came to Yale University to examine their common roots. Yale ...
Documentary Sailm nan Daoine brings audiences along on an intimate road trip exploring the emotional and cultural resonance of Gaelic psalm singing. Director Jack Archer and musician Rob MacNeacail ...
The Scotsman has news of a fascinating debate going on in the Free Church of Scotland. After more than a century of singing psalms in church in unaccompanied monody, there's a move afoot to introduce ...
When I asked my dad what songs he sang in church during the war, he explained that with his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation, worshipers couldn’t sing anything that smacked of ...
Most Gaels, whether religious or not, will recognise the sound of Gaelic psalmody (psalm singing) as a truly emotive heartbeat of their communities and the sound accompanying the happiest, most ...
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