Design by Watercolour
Gaelic music, song and words.
Watercolour
Design by Watercolour
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Gaelic musician and broadcasterTapa leibh airson tadhal air làrach-lìn Màiri Anna! Gheibhear fiosrachadh ma deidhinn fhèin agus a' cuid obrach an-seo, agus tha cothrom ann ceòl a cheannach, no brath a chur thuice. Fàilt' oirbh!
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I grew up in the southside of Glasgow, in a city rich in languages and cultures, and as part of Scottish Gaels’ biggest urban diaspora. It was something of a strange and wonderful upbringing for me and my sister, feeling part of a big community but at the same time – in terms of peers at least – sometimes feeling like the only Gaels in the village. Things change, and it’s a joy to see today at the bottom of the street where I grew up, one of Glasgow’s three Gaelic schools. You can take the girl out of Glasgow, but never Glasgow out of the girl, and in the spirit of Gaels eternal need to sing about home, this is my Gaelic love-song for the city in all its guises – the voices of arrivals in search of a new life and of those, like me, born and bred there with Gaelic as our first language. . " Mary Ann’s whole musical experience and passion, with various live formats capable of communicating this, whether as an intimate duo or as full-scale performance, engaging audiences with Gaelic songs of real people in the here and now, all delivered with her trademark quirky sense of humour.
Mary Ann's first band, Cliar, won the all-time Best Album accolade at the inaugural Scots Trad Music Awards, and earned her a Saltire Award, With her tradition-bearer family, the Campbells of Greepe, the major biography and album project 'Fonn' won the Arts and Culture award at the first National Gaelic Awards.
Musical commissions include 'Beul na h-Oidhche gu Camhanaich' (Dusk to Dawn) for Blas Festival, 'Aiseag' (The Ferryboat) for PRSforMusic Foundation's 1st New Music Biennial, 'Dubh Shneachd' for the International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences and Associate Artist for Aberdeen Music Hall. The commissions continue in 2018 with Scottish Natural Heritage and An Comunn Gàidhealach sponsoring a new work marking the National Mòd in Dunoon.
Working from Watercolour Music in Ardgour with her husband, producer and engineer Nick Turner,Mary Ann produced 'An Dàn' her solo debut followed by Glaschu
Her broadcast credits include BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio nan Gàidheal and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, and presentation and performance on BBC Scotland, BBC2, TG4 and BBC4,
This is entirely a voluntary project for us here at Watercolour. Somewhere down the line, we might be able to look at publishing, but for now, we just wanted to get something out online that might bring pleasure to others at a difficult time, and we’re working entirely within the resources that we have available to us here at Watercolour.
Coigach and Assynt is a land and a people in constant motion. The voices and experience of its people, sung out through their Music and Tales, paint a great canvas of human experience against a backdrop of rocks as old as the earth itself and a landscape which tells its own dramatic tales of the cycle of life..
Highland Whispers is an innovative and dynamic project which celebrates the wonderfully broad range of artistic expression in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. It will inspire new and unexpected relationships through a syndicated group of original commissions, which will in turn create and inspire a consequential series of new works.
" It is her delivery of the lyrics of others... that really shine." The Herald.
" Mary Ann’s commanding and captivating voice clearly articulates the gamut of feelings expressed in the words.
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