Love and Loss: Remembering Martyn in Scotland's Music - is my response to all the folk who got in touch after Phil Cunningham's interview on BBC TV Scotland's Music. The lament, Fhir an Fuilt Dhuinn, was composed by Martyn's grandmother, after she watched the programme. She's 88 and has, in many ways, been quite silent over her loss, but her song, inspired by the piobearachd she has known for over seventy years is her expression: "this is just how I feel', she said, in every sense resonating with Phil's discussion on the Gaelic lament. As I have no wish to make this a commercial venture, I decided that whatever income this CD generates (even if it doesn't cover expenses) I would set up a Scottish Music Scholarship in Martyn's Memory for a student of promise at the RSAMD. Martyn's grandfather, whom I first heard playing this piobearachd, has gifted his own set of Henderson bagpipes (ebony, ivory with silver mounts) to the RSAMD and Piping Centre in Martyn's memory. They are played here by Cameron Drummond, a talented second-year piping student at the RSAMD. It seems fitting that Cameron is playing the very pipes on which I first heard Padruig Mor MacCrimmon's Cumha na Cloinne.... Listen Fhir an Fuilt Dhuinn www.myspace.com/margaretbennettscotland
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Margaret Bennett in Roma
Ha lasciato uno splendido quanto significativo ricordo la sua recente apparizione in febbraio in occasione del Martyn Bennett Memorial folk Festival, qui a Roma. Proprio in questi giorni ha pubblicato un nuovo cd dal titolo "Take the Road to Aberfeldy", attualmente disponibile presso Coda Music e Foot Stompin. Margaret è la voce del mondo gaelico in Scozia. Cantante, docente universitario, scrittrice, Hamish Henderson l’ha definita “una delle maggiori figure del moderno Revival Scozzese”.
Hamish Henderson Folk Club Roma
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Lecture for 2007
Crofting: An appreciation of Transferable Skill
(Tradition for the Next Generations)
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Take the Road to Aberfeldy was inspired by Margaret's invitation to Festival 500 (July 2007) in Newfoundland, where thousands of singers from all over the world spend a week together celebrating the voice and the joy of singing - an exhilarating and uplifting experience! At home in Scotland we have a lot in common with the Newfoundland ‘scene’- innumerable kitchens, campfires, pubs, village halls, churches, theatres and studios, where singing is like breathing - vital to our culture. Margaret Bennett in collaboration with Seylan Baxter (cello & vocals); Cheyenne Brown (clarsach); Heather Downie, (piano, clarsach & vocals); Ruairidh MacMillan (fiddle); Stuart Peters, (Border pipes), The Aberfeldy and District Gaelic Choir.
Proceeds from this CD go to Bethesda Hospice Isle of Lewis and to the promotion of traditional music, in memory of my son Martyn whose music, vitality and creativity continue to inspire.
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More: Rambles, chat with Margaret, interview with Margaret, WW2: War time memories, CommonGround,, Festival500 |
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BOOKS
Martyn Book
Wartime Memories
Scottish Customs
Oatmeal & Catechism
Eric R Gregeen
Last Stronghold
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