Cridhe gu Cridhe (Heart to Heart)
Spiritual Songs from the Southern Isles of the Outer Hebrides
Thursday 23rd February at 7.30pm
St Peter’s RC Church, Partick
Tickets £5 from 0141 554 1333 or lentfest@agap.org.uk
Cridhe gu Cridhe – Heart to Heart – is a collection of spiritual songs from the southern isles of the Outer Hebrides, performed by singers Gillebride and Mary MacMillan, Seumas Campbell and Alasdair Codona, with musical accompaniment from Deirdre and Fred Morrison, Mhairi Hall and Rachel Hair. It was recently recorded as an album, produced by Ishabel T MacDonald and Deirdre Morrison.
The Group was established in the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles to provide tuition in the singing of traditional and modern Gaelic hymns, to make high quality recordings of these hymns and to encourage increased use of this material. Many of the hymns were written by noted Gaelic poets, Fr. Allan MacDonald (1859 – 1905) and Donald John MacDonald (1919 – 1986), and a number were set to music by composer Ishabel T MacDonald. The CD recording was the first in a series and draws on a selection of such hymns from the 1986 collection of Gaelic sacred music “Seinnibh Dhan Tighearna”, together with three more recent hymns by singer/composer and musician Alasdair Codona.