Music
Musical Director, Brona McVittie, collects and arranges old Celtic folk songs, which the group performs both acapella and with lever harp.
Our repertoire spans the six Celtic nations with a collection of Irish, Scots Gaelic, Breton, Manx, Cornish and Welsh songs. The girls release their debut album, Sé: Songs from the Six Celtic Nations at the:
Green Note, Camden Town
Monday 19th September, doors 7.00pm
Limited tickets are available from WeGotTickets. The album will be available to purchase through bandcamp from 19.09.11.
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 and Ciara Holland. 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.
On Thursday 29th October 2009, Rún launched their debut EP at the Islington Folk Club, celebrating their Irish repertoire with: Beidh Aonach Amárach. They’ve long since sold out of copies, but the EP is available to purchase as a digital download through bandcamp.
Listen to the girls perform the song at Crawley Folk Festival in 2010:
