Madge Bray - Traditional Futures

Here I share the roots of the ancient Scottish family traditional music which came to me in the breastmilk.

Our oral tradition connects us with our past, anchors us into the present and offers the gift of a cultural inheritance to the future. 

Pibroch lament bagpipe tunes handed down by our ancestors as musical medicine in the keening of the dead are given words more pertinent today. A central focus is on Keening, Pibroch chant or ‘Canntaireachd', and Carmina Gadaelica prayers - areas of current special interest.

As I build the channel, I will include a series of short stories entitiled 'Songs in the Breastmilk'. There will also be Georgian journeys, family stories and my mother, Betty Allan's, poems.

May these posts weave a thread of inner connection and healing for those who, like me, are minded to linger a while to drink from its life enhancing wellspring.