Rún

“The flower of the free
The heather, the heather
The Bretons and Scots and Irish together
The Manx and the Welsh and Cornish forever
Six nations are we, all Celtic and free.”

The human voice touches something deep within us. Through it we  are united, across borders, boundaries and nations as this famous lyric from The Song of the Celts (the Wolftones) aptly notes. Through song we possess the ability to inspire, to motivate, to celebrate. Rún harnesses these qualities to revisit the lore, legend and languages of our ancestors. Their debut performance in 2008 at London’s Union Chapel was described by the Irish World as “refreshingly different“, so perhaps it’s no surprise that the four-strong female vocal ensemble should go on to release a debut so refreshingly diverse.

Produced by County Down singer/harper, Brona McVittie, Sé features close-harmony arrangements of songs in Irish, Scots Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish and Breton dialects, brought to life through the dulcet tones of Alli Buhagiar, Sonja Byrne, Ciara Holland and Brona. The languages of the six Celtic nations evolved as branches of ‘old Celtic’, spoken millenia ago by tribes who lived, loved and laboured across Europe from the British Isles to Gallatia. The group brings new life to old Celtic songs about one-horned cows and gigolos, blackbirds and bogeymen, drinking and debauchery, ardor and arable farming.

Rún released Sé: Songs from the Six Celtic Nations on Monday 19th September 2011 at the Green Note, 106 Parkway, Camden Town, NW1 7AN (7pm)

To purchase the album, and get your free track, please visit: BANDCAMP