The Highland Sessions: Waulking Songs

From BBC series The Highland Sessions

Category:

Music

Tags:

• highland
• sessions
• celtic
• irish
• scottish
• waulking

[Cagun]

It is, according to her. Look her up in myspace.

[missionpants]

Wow, beautiful!

Some say YouTube is a double edged sword posting the worst there is in video's... And then I see this.. A beautiful song/video of a culture I pretty much know nothing of, let alone have heard, or am related to... (I'm czech) So I will still think the world is rose-colored thanks to the few who post these beautiful clips of music that makes my ears hum with joy....

/please carry on....

[ljbabysprite]

Great music is like great food: it matters not from where it comes because in essence it comes from the heart and soul. Here you have it, the waulking (shrinking of the tweed) songs come from the hearts and souls of the Scots Gael women who's grandmums and great-grandmums taught their mums and their mums taught them, too. A marvelous tradition this is. The work was hard and the song helped to lighten things a bit. ^..^~

[euroserf]

Just like English is similar to the other Germanic languages ...Milk...Milch......thunder..­.Donder.......Brown.....braun etc.

[euroserf]

Scots gaelic is very similar to Ulster dialect of Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelg too (when I hear it spoken) ....the written tongue is different but i can have a conversation with anyone that speaks any of these 3 !

[cuimreach]

@h1zchan Well, her name is Maighread Stiùbhart in Gaelic, so her name is just Anglicised here. Margaret is Greek in origin (it's my mother's name) and Stewart is a traditional Scottish name, thus the name of the Scottish Royal Dynasty.

[vivaloriflamme]

@Munchhurdle

Well, if we're all losing our jobs, we'll have time to learn and use Gaelic.

[mhicnanolc]

We have a few Gaidhlig speakers here in Canada as well (mainly Nova Scotia) and it's also making a comeback there after being nearly wiped out.

[Munchhurdle]

Yes drummerlead - very similar

[drummerlead]

Ok....thanks for that enlightenment! :) I myself think that the Gaelic language is one of the most soothing to listen to. Very similar to Irish Gaelic or not?

[Munchhurdle]

Whoever told you that is wrong - The problem with using Gaeilge/Gaelic in my IMHO anyway is that it it is not an everyday language of economics - English is and we spend most of our lives making ends meet - so therefore .......

[Munchhurdle]

They're very close but a language doesn't survive unless it changes and adopts its surroundings - There will always be dialects and strains in every language and region - If that were not the ase then a language could surely pbe placed upon a shelf and archived

[drummerlead]

Now, is there any difference between the Irish Gaelic and the Scottish Gaelic? It's pretty much the same words mean the same things?