Margaret Stewart is a great traditional singer - a native Gaelic speaker whose singing is steeped in the rhythms of the language. Allan MacDonald is an expert piper (one of the famous Glenuig piping MacDonald brothers) as well as a fine singer. The success of this collaboration - and the pipes sit well with the ornate Lewis singing style - may say something about the past but certainly points the way to future possibilities. Terrific entertainment with lovely singing and great tunes, some of the best written by Allan MacDonald himself.
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an album uniting the traditional Gaelic singer's style and the Gaelic pibroch piping. Listening to the album, you can feel that in many Gaelic tunes singing and piping are just different ways of expression, but both sound very similar in the style.
On the Outer Hebrides Gaelic culture is still alive - this album showcases Gaelic music and song. Magaret Stewart from the Isle of Lewis is a traditional Gaelic singer who won the premier award for singing in the National Mod 1993; Allan MacDonald is a respected Gaelic piper and sings as well. They have put together an album uniting the traditional Gaelic singer's style and the Gaelic pibroch piping. Listening to the album, you can feel that in many Gaelic tunes singing and piping are just different ways of expression, but both sound very similar in the style. The titles with singing and pipes are the most outstanding ones of the album; though the a capella Gaelic Waulking and Love songs and the tunes - often accompanied by the young superb musicians Allan (fiddle) and Ingrid (harp, piano) Henderson and Iain MacFarlane plus Allan's brother Iain MacDonald (flute, whistle) and Nick Turner (bass guitar) - are highest quality as well. The nice booklet, by the way, is bilingual - in Gaelic and English. Essential for lovers of Gaelic music.......FolkWorld
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