{"id":16506,"date":"2014-08-11T09:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T09:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/rywsut\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2014-08-11T09:43:01","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T09:43:01","slug":"air-ais-anns-a-chuimrigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16506","title":{"rendered":"Air ais anns a&#8217; Chuimrigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e0inig mi air ais dhan a&#8217; Chuimrigh oidhche Shathairne an d\u00e9idh seachdain math dha r\u00ecreabh ann an Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig. Rinn mi c\u00f9rsa \u00d2rain Gh\u00e0idhlig ri Christine Primrose, agus bu mh\u00f3r a ch\u00f2rd e rium. Bha tri duine deug anns a&#8217; chlas \u00e0 Alba, &#8216;nam Ghearmailt, \u00e0s na St\u00e0itean Aonaichte, agus \u00e0 Sasann. Chan robh G\u00e0idhlig ag na m\u00f3r-chuid aca, agus bha i doirbh dhaibh na faclan a fhuaimneachadh mar bu ch\u00f2ir. Dh&#8217;ionnsaich sinn naoi \u00f2rain ar fhichead r\u00e9 c\u00f3ig latha, no timcheall sia gach latha. Anns an oidhche bha sinn a&#8217; seinn, a&#8217; dannsa, a&#8217; bruidhinn agus bha sinn gu sona sunndach.<\/p>\n<p>I got back to Wales on Saturday night after a great week at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig. I did the Gaelic Song course with Christine Primrose and really enjoyed it. There were thirteen of us in the class from Scotland, Germany, the USA and England. Most of the others did not speak Gaelic, and it was difficult for them to pronounce the words correctly. We learnt 29 songs in five days, or about six a day. In the evening we sang, made music, danced, chatted and had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n<p>Here are recordings from the c\u00e8ilidh on Thursday night when we sang a some of the songs we learnt:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/eholeagain3.mp3\">E ho leagain<\/a> (Hi ho my pet one) &#8211; a milking song which praises a long-haired heifer who gives plenty of milk and never kicks.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/eholeagain3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/eholeagain3.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/horomobhobagandram3.mp3\">Horo mo bhobagan dram<\/a> (My friend is the dram) &#8211; a song in praise of whisky,<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/horomobhobagandram3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/horomobhobagandram3.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/thasneachdairdruimuachdair3.mp3\">Tha Sneachd air Druim Uachdair<\/a> (There is Snow on Druim Uachdair) &#8211; a song from the 17th century by Fearchair Mac Iain Oig from Kintail about a man who is on the run from the law and is hiding out in the hills where it&#8217;s cold and lonely. I sang solo for parts of this.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/thasneachdairdruimuachdair3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/thasneachdairdruimuachdair3.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/carsonabhiossinnmuladach3.mp3\">Carson a&#8217; bhios sinn muladach<\/a> (Why should we be down-hearted) &#8211; a song about young men going off to war together, and how they&#8217;re worried, but hope things will turn out well and that they&#8217;ll return.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/carsonabhiossinnmuladach3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/carsonabhiossinnmuladach3.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/puirt2.mp3\">Siud mar chaidh an c\u00e0l a dholaidh &#038; Cuir a nall Mor-a-Bhitheag<\/a> (That is how the kale was ruined &#038; Send on over Marion-a-Bhitheag) &#8211; two <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Puirt_%C3%A0_beul\"><em>puirt \u00e0 beul<\/em><\/a> or pieces of mouth music, the first of which tells how the kale was ruined by the lowland men and the emperor of France, and the second concerns Marion-a-Bhitheag &#8211; the meaning of <em>Bhitheag<\/em> in this context is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/puirt2.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><embed height=\"50\" width=\"100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/smo\/2014\/puirt2.mp3\"\/><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Th\u00e0inig mi air ais dhan a&#8217; Chuimrigh oidhche Shathairne an d\u00e9idh seachdain math dha r\u00ecreabh ann an Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig. Rinn mi c\u00f9rsa \u00d2rain Gh\u00e0idhlig ri Christine Primrose, agus bu mh\u00f3r a ch\u00f2rd e rium. Bha tri duine deug anns a&#8217; chlas \u00e0 Alba, &#8216;nam Ghearmailt, \u00e0s na St\u00e0itean Aonaichte, agus \u00e0 Sasann. Chan robh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,29,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}