#runrig — Public Fediverse posts
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Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)
Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.
Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]
#celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic
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Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)
Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.
Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]
#celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic
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Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)
Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.
Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]
#celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic
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Runrig – The Stamping Ground (2001, Scotland)
Our next spotlight is on number 6 on The List, submitted by Almandine.
Formed on the Isle of Skye in 1973, Runrig was a much-beloved Celtic rock band that, among other things, was the first to have a song sung in Scottish Gaelic make the UK Singles Charts. By the time we get to this, their 11th studio album, they had long expanded their sound beyond traditional ceilidh/pastoral folk to be more folk rock, sung more songs in English than Gaelic, and had a number of line-up changes including lead singer Donnie Monro leaving (in 1997) and being replaced by Canadian Bruce Guthro. It apparently took a bit to get fans onboard with the change in lead vocalist, but this album brought renewed interest in the band (particularly across the pond) and it was ultimately their most successful. This album has even been played in outer space, taken onboard the space shuttle Columbia by American NASA astronaut Laurel Clark on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003. The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry but Clark’s CD copy was somehow found by NASA investigators in what little wreckage survived, in a field somewhere in Texas. Clark’s family presented the CD to Runrig, and the CD would later become part of a museum exhibition on the band (I’m not crying you’re crying).[1]
#celticFolk #celticMusic #celticRock #gaelicMusic #laurelClark #runrig #scotland #scottishMusic
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Runrig: Fichead Bliadhna
Critique Scotland's education system until the early 1980s when native #Gaelic -speaking children were often beaten for using their mother-tongue.
Freedom of the moor
Freedom of the hill
And then to school at the end of summer
Children,
Five years of age,
Without a word of English in our heads -
Very much enjoyed tonight watching the Skippinish 25th anniversary concert at Edinburgh Castle the other week, recorded and aired on BBC Alba, and available for UK folks on the iPlayer. Also some very special guests. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002173j #Skippinish #Gaelic #Scotland #ScottishMusic #Music #TraditionalMusic #FolkMusic #EdinburghCastle #BBCAlba #Concert #Edinburgh #Capercaillie #Runrig #iPlayer #Gaidhlig
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The National: Niteworks have announced a new and final single to commemorate their last year together as a band with further tour dates in Inverness’s Eden Court and London’s The Garage also shared.
The new single, [An Toll Dubh]… is a cover of the song originally written and performed by Runrig’s Calum and Rory Macdonald.
#Niteworks #Runrig #AnTollDubh #Ceòl #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #CleachdI #MastoDaoine
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Creator of An Gèidheal Ùr, Faclair nan Gèidheal, Aimsir.scot & original Gaelic language social network, AbairThusa.
#Gàidhlig #Gaelic #Gaeilge #MastoDaoine
#Gèidheal #Gèidheil #Cuèir #Queer #TransAlly
#ScottishRepublic #ScottishIndependence #ScottishGreens
#TheLibertines #LinkinPark #blink182 #GreenDay #Runrig #Mànran #TroyeSivan #TaylorSwift
#Farscape #StargateSG1 #StarWars #StarTrek #DoctorWho #BattlestarGalactica
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Bruce Guthro’s Lives Lived from The Globe and Mail
#RIP #Canada #Scotland #Music #Runrig #CelticFolk #CelticRock