"Hallaig" Concert
17/09/2011 - Sabhal Mòr OstaigA musical celebration of the poetry of Sorley MacLean with musical director Kenneth Thomson featuring compositions by Stuart MacRae, Mary Ann Kennedy, Eilidh Mackenzie, Marie-Louise Napier, Allan Macdonald, Blair Douglas, Donald Shaw, Allan Henderson and Kenneth Thomson
Musical director Kenneth Thomson, with Dingwall Gaelic choir, Brian McAlpine, Gordon Gunn, Dougie Pincock, Jenna Cumming, Rhona MacKay, Alasdair Whyte, Mary McCarthy, Jack Evans, Su-a Lee.
This intense and visionary poem is about Hallaig, one of the cleared townships on Raasay. It was composed by Sorley MacLean in 1952, and was first published in Gairm in 1954. The poem is perhaps the best known of Sorley MacLean's work, and a translation of 'Hallaig' by Irish Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney was published by Urras Shomhairle in 2002.
£ 12 Adult Earlybird (available to July 31st) then £ 14 Adult, £ 12 Senior Citizen, £5 Children and school pupils, £ 32 Family (2 adults+2 children)
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