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Ceòl ’s Craic @ Leabhar ’s Craic

Sat 22 March 2014

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While young Glasgow musicians from the East End preview their first New Gaelic Music compositions, a parallel Gaelic language and music mentoring project comes to fruition.


Dalma, Willie Campbell’s collection of original Gaelic songs, is the result of an initiative funded by Creative Scotland’s Talent Development programme. With the support of musical collaborator and mentor Calum Martin, he rediscovered his native Gaelic language.


Campbell is probably best known for his indie rock band Astrid which enjoyed huge success in the 90s. Martin is widely known for his pioneering work in making Gaelic relevant to all musical genres as well as taking Gaelic psalm singing, the most traditional of genres, to the contemporary music scene.


Although a generation apart, the two musicians have more in common than a shared birthplace, and the benefits of their residency is strikingly evident in Willie’s song writing.


"Willie's recordings are soundtracks to the truly humane life - which is to say, a life of fallibility, of resolution and of ultimate redemption… it's very rare that an album comes along which might also contribute to survival - in this case, the survival of a language, a culture, a way of seeing things. Willie's music has always been a way of showing how things matter – so perhaps from him, a Gaelic album is not just a surprise, it's an inevitability. Dalma is (as its dictionary definition proclaims) confident, daring - and yes even a little presumptuous."
poet and novelist Kevin MacNeill:


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7pm-10pm, Theatre, £10 (£8)
Ages: under 14s welcome until 10pm
Book online / 0141 352 4900