THE REAL MERIDA?! Vocal Coach reacts to Julie Fowlis - Hug Air a' Bhonaid Mhoir (Scottish Gaelic) 

This was a pleasant surprise in my recommended feed (I'm from the Hebrides and, you mentioned you're Scottish too, you may know that gaelic is very, very well preserved on the islands lol). The catchy folktunes can be fun to listen to, though gaelic shines its best qualities when you are listening to a traditional lament, here is the name of one I recommend to listen to that almost every native gaelic speaker will have memories of as it's often sung as a lullaby: "Ba Mo Leanabh" There are a few versions on RU-vid and they have some instrumentation, although the traditional way to do it would be completely acapella because the vocal itself is regarded as the ornamentation accompanying poetry (which serves a purpose as the lyric). The reason why these particular kinds of traditional music didn't really ever go outside of the speaking community is because they were never written or scored historically, it was passed down through family over generations who picked it up by only listening to another person sing it. Same also happened in Ireland as it did in Scotland, and it's known as "seann nos" (spelling probably differs for Irish gaelige). In the traditional Scottish gaelic music (and perhaps Irish, too), whenever you hear phonetics like "hee ree ho ee", these don't actually have any translation because they're not any word in the language, but rather it is derived from Norse influence from their own traditional style of "joiking" or "kulning" that made its way into gaelic folkmusic way back around 1000 AD. So they would have been sounds that people became familiar with in those times, though otherwise didn't understand anything about, but it nevertheless made its way into music and is used in a lot of melismatic ornamentation. Roll forward several centuries, with the tradition of seann nos (not writing anything down and passing it through generations by ear) and it ended up sticking and is still present today which is quite cool. Right you are also about the live performances across pubs in Scotland too (don't see it too much in the bigger cities though which is a shame), and they sure do love an uptempo lol. But honestly in my opinion there's nothing in the music which can remotely compete with the traditional laments, they're just hands down ethereal and all of its derives from poetry, so it has a great deal of depth to it. Otherwise really cool that you've taken the time to push out the traditional music to bigger crowds, well done and good job! :D

Duncan Chisholm a Fantastic Scottish artist in his own right. A large body of work on here at RU-vid. My 2 favourites are Duncan Chisholm DIZZY BLUE at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery........and..... Duncan Chisholm ,Ali Hutton and Conal McDonagh in Edinburgh..... both of which are on here via the Search Facility.

I love mánran!

Great list but I would add Karine Polwart to the list

Thanks so much for watching!

Wait tae yer mah age, a spark in yer bawbag wid be like a gift affy Santa Claus.

Thank you! Have a lovely day as well!

Julie's performances are special. Here's one of our faves: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xd57l6hoEbI.html

I'm sure Gaels like your Dutch "dialect "

@@johnmccracken8100 Well it's West Flemish, Wielsbeke to be precise and there's a huge difference between accents from villages just a few kilometers apart, so no, most don't!

I'm a DM but not Dave and thanks because I kept listening to hear the 9/8 but could not and then started wondering if I was just crazy (well that alone is not proof)

That's the kinda stuff Americans say

I am pure Norse Gael from the Western Isle, not a drop of english blood. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

@@ConnbineHarvester That is because your are not one of us, you have to be of the blood. SAOR ALBA GU BRATH

@@northscot9862 I'm of Ireland so hardly jealous of a Scottish :D