Ceòl Chaluim: The Pipe Music of Calum Campbell of Benbecula
Calum Campbell was an accomplished piper and tutor and a prolific composer. This book contains some 50 previously unpublished tunes and has been edited by Niall Campbell and Catriona Garbutt, his son and sister respectively.
The classic three volumes of Hebridean Folksongs, reissued simultaneously for the fist time since their original publication (1967, 1977, 1981), contain 135 songs connected with the waulking of homespun cloth in the Hebrides.
This book brings together fragments of old Arran Gaelic culture and a few Scots examples with newer material, particularly tune compositions in a traditional style.
Fraya Thomsen is a Scottish harpist and composer in high demand. As one half of the internationally renowned duo The Duplets, her tunes are widely sought after.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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