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Travelling Folk: Donegal Bonus Tracks and Seinn Spioradail

Donegal Bonus Tracks and Seinn Spioradail

BBC Radio Scotland - Travelling Folk, Donegal Bonus Tracks and Seinn Spioradail

Anna shares bonus material from our trip to Donegal and explores a new exhibition.

Anna shares bonus material from Travelling Folk's trip to Donegal and explores a new exhibition, Seinn Spioradail, highlighting traditional forms of sacred and spiritual Gaelic singing.

In the run up to Saint Patrick's Day, Anna shares unheard bonus material from some of the amazing people featured on Travelling Folk's Donegal special. This week, Capercaillie's Manus Lunny and Altan's Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh talk about the remarkable success of musicians from this remote nook of the north west of Ireland.

Dr Frances Wilkins, a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the University of Aberdeen, has spent the last six years undertaking fieldwork in the West Highlands and Western Isles and exploring sacred and spiritual singing from the region. Her research comes to life in a new interactive exhibition, Seinn Spioradail: Sacred Soundscapes of the Highlands and Islands, which she has co-curated with designer Ronan Martin. The exhibition launched in Stornoway and will tour Hebridean communities in 2024 and 2025. Dr Frances Wilkins and Gaelic singer Torquil MacLeod join Anna live to explore how sacred singing was, and continues to be, integral to many aspects of community life.

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