I was also into Runrig and Capercaillie in my teens! There are probably still some CDs knocking around my mother's house somewhere. Looking at my folder of MP3s, these days I've got Billy Ross, Daimh, Griogair Labhruidh, Kathleen McInnes and Julie Fowlis saved to my harddrive, plus there's whatever I catch through online sources. YouTube has a copy of the six-part Highland Sessions which I love to pieces. I wish the BBC would do a Highland Sessions Part 2. The Transatlantic Sessions were more hit and miss for me.
My parents apparently saw Sorley MacLean give a reading when they were holidaying (maybe in Argyll or the Hebrides?) before I was born. I think it was a bit lost on them since they knew no Gaelic, though were aware enough of the poems to be familiar with the line 'time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig'. I think they saw him as rather a stern figure, though that may have been an impression compounded from their experience of the highlands and islands at the time in the 70s/80s, a different world then for a couple from Liverpool.
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Date: 2024-12-07 11:31 am (UTC)My parents apparently saw Sorley MacLean give a reading when they were holidaying (maybe in Argyll or the Hebrides?) before I was born. I think it was a bit lost on them since they knew no Gaelic, though were aware enough of the poems to be familiar with the line 'time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig'. I think they saw him as rather a stern figure, though that may have been an impression compounded from their experience of the highlands and islands at the time in the 70s/80s, a different world then for a couple from Liverpool.