Runrig - Cnoc Na Feille / Siol Ghoraidh

[@SavedandSound]

Lucky you!!! I adore Runrig--especially the MacDonald brothers. Brilliant songwriters and musicians. A relatively new fan, I'm just beginning to distinguish Donnie's voice from Bruce's; in my humble opinion, they're both wonderfully gifted singers. Donnie's pure voice soars; Bruce's voice is earthy and gritty. But we mustn't overlook Rory--something about his voice tugs at my heart when he sings lead... Respect from an American lass!

[@WVislandia]

I think what Run Rig shared with their music was a link with the culture they were brought up in. They made it cool to speak (Scots) Gaelic to lots of young people who used to think it was only a sign of backwardness. The pride they show with their music is something that everyone can aspire to - the only boundaries are what you let be put up. Alba Gu Brath!

[@steven3433]

My mother was scottish, it is only recently I have discovered my passion and roots for scotland, still never to late, lol.

[@AudiolifeInverness]

14 years on how’s that going?

[@vanderpresto86]

That’s great to hear . It’s a truly wonderful place . And as you say it’s never too late and you’ll always be welcome

[@vanderpresto86]

Hope you made it over at some point , didn’t see it was 14 years ago 😮

[@lidzyboo]

stumbled on this song via a drunk typo of "running crocodile" yesterday; glad I did!

[@deepsilentcomplete]

... running crocodile. Thank you, I've gone mute with laughter!

[@AudiolifeInverness]

😂😂

[@jenskuhn435]

Are you still listening? I can never let this song go.

[@alanmcleod9185]

Hopefully some day you’ll find your crocodile….

[@Macneacail77]

I am Canadian of Scottish Highland ancestry and runrig is absolutely amazing I feel cheated we haven't heard of them sooner, payola is shit music, but runrig's music is timeless and fantastic or as I can say in Scottish Gaelic, Glay Glay Va!! I am thankful to almighty God for my Scottish origins, hello to all my Scottish brothers accross the sea.

[@tinysteelorchestra]

I'm as English as they come - but the first live gig I went to was Runrig, and they blew my socks off. Used to have this video. Brilliant band.

[@samantha-janehood5045]

😂❤️

[@adamglasgow9268]

Mon the Scots

[@dannyboy7715]

Blew my socks off is about the most English thing you could say 😂

[@JackPettinger]

It doesn't matter who sings the songs, Rory and Calum are deserve all the credit for being such fantastic song writers.

[@TheHerthaBSC]

love runrig love scotland forever greetings from german capital and his most faithful Hertha BSC and especially tartan army supporter alba gu brath

[@samantha-janehood5045]

💕

[@darthfader1970]

2022 still listening to Runrig, we were fortunate to see them In there hay day many times

[@Hannah-lp4em]

My papa was one of the men in the first song! It’s so nice to see him in this ! ❤️❤️❤️

[@marinag.4553]

Alba gu brath .gracias por esa bellísima musica y...Escocia por siempre

[@samantha-janehood5045]

❤️❤️❤️

[@brucecunningham8267]

All that is Scotland god bless u all thank u runrig

[@brucecunningham8267]

U are second to none thanks for keeping the Gaelic alive

[@mmmmikkimac]

Runrig should tour North America. Both Canada AND the US have a LOT of Scottish ancestral connections. Including me~

[@liammacgregor1546]

This video is absolutely beautiful. Much love to you all from Fife Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@seangrogan3622]

I also have a very strong sense of the supernatural. Last night as I was consuming, I caught sight of Miriam O'Farrell outside on her porch and I thought to myself that I had seen her in another life. But then I remembered that it was actually the week before as she was selling carrots at the market.

[@alanmcleod9185]

Have another drink and it’ll all make sense

[@knus1959]

Hi :) I would hope that Runrig will continue to sing the Gaelic songs, so the language does not disappear.

[@wengen2007]

Great group. Donnie Munro has a magnificent voice.

[@jaggy-snake]

My mothers mother was Macdonald from Uist ( clanranald) her father Macdonald from Sleat. ~ That's why we're all mental.

[@katherinejones850]

Runrig rules! If they do not resonate with you, stop trying! Go find what does! They are amazing!

[@deiti9000]

...two brilliant songs...i love donnie and i am so sad that he is gone....but bruce is also a genius.. RUNRIG is GREAT!!!! greetings from germany....

[@scottishalwaysdixie1638]

Forever 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👏👏👏 we ♥️♥️♥️

[@kathleenmurphy5722]

Always remember that Hate is easy... Love is hard.....

[@knus1959]

Runrig is playing at "Skovdalen" in Aalborg (Denmark) on August 13. 2016.... And i'll be there ... again....

[@happyhumble7233]

Tha gaol agam a' cluinntinn mo bhra`threan ann an Runrig ag seinne ann an Ga`idhlig, is toil leam e gu mo`r!!

[@usrunrigfan]

Get over it, Donnie AND Bruce are both awesome. All things must change........

[@hixxy220Muse]

He taught at my school in Edinburgh, Tynecastle High School, fae a Hibs fan.

[@TheHerthaBSC]

alba gu brath kind regards from tartan army + hertha bsc supporter from berlin scotland we love ye runrig one of the greatest

[@nicklund9572]

love Runrig

[@bigcoolviking]

This is beautiful Donnies voice has power and authority yet he can be as smooth as velvet in some of the awesome mellow galic laments!

[@barredok]

There's something about Gaelic and it's related languages that I just love. I can't speak it but the sound is musical in of itself. That bit with the drums around 3 min into the song sounds a bit like it's Native American.

[@magisma52]

My two Runrig favorite songs together! Great video and great Rory's voice, Greetings from Spain

[@SavedandSound]

AMEN, santiano42! Runrig's music is brilliant and universally appealing, transcending nationality, generations and politics! Love this song, this vid and this band... God bless Scotland and Runrig forever!

[@joanmclo]

Yeah Rory MacDonald has the best voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig! Does anyone know if they are married with families in Skye or what?

[@joanmclo]

I TOTALLY agree with you about Rory's voice. It's beautiful and heartfelt! I think he should do more of the lead vocals now, like he used to on their earlier gaelic albums. I think the MacDonald brothers make Runrig!

[@jimmymalone9139]

Hey joan any chance of a gallop?

[@patriciaboag4827]

Wish I'd of heard of Runrig long before I did, Love them feel cheated.

[@bigcoolviking]

In a single word 'FANTASTIC'

[@Newbattle2007]

@icebear1405 Bin deutsch aber lebe seit einigen Jahren in Schottland. Entdecke jeden Tag auf's neue wie unbeschreiblich schoen dieses Land ist. Habe Runrig in den 90er Jahren oft live gesehen und vermisse die alten Donnie Tage schrecklich. Ich weiss das die meisten songs von Rory und Callum geschrieben worden sind und ich mag den schraegen Gesang von Rory. Zusammen mit Donnie's Stimme war es dann einfach magisch. Vielleich besinnen sie sich ja und machen noch mal was zusammen.

[@steven3433]

this song is pure heaven, I can imagine sitting on a cloud looking down to the earth below and remembering everything good that that life has to give, + it reminds me of an x girlfriend who I loved and should never have let go, This song is pure emotion.

[@Thugra89576]

City of lights live...... I used to love listening to this concert on video tape growing up about 30 years ago

[@surfer5864]

runrig, greatest band EVER

[@ormelling]

I heard one of the lead singers is from Cape Breton Island, Canada. Anyone know? I think they are brilliant. And still going strong after all these years! Visited the Outer Hebrides a few years back. All the young people there really look up to these guys.

[@marytheresaburns4728]

O.R. Melling His name is Bruce Guthrie he joined the band in 1998 and yes he is from Nova Scotia

[@pauledwards5573]

Bruce Guthrow who took over when Donnie left the group.

[@ormelling]

@@pauledwards5573 Pete Wishart who's an SNP (Scottish independence party) MP gave me free use of some lyrics for my book The Summer King. Such a sweetheart, I couldn't pay the huge sum - for me at the time - that his recording company was asking for. And Donnie was a Labour candidate & gave up the offer of a safe seat to almost win in his highland area. Great men all round!!!

[@knus1959]

I was to the Runrig concert yesterday in Frederikshavn (DK) And it hurt me a lot, that they only played one gaelic song. If that is their plan, I whish that Donnie was back in Runrig. Anyway it was a great concert. :-)

[@grahamfleming8139]

An dha sealladh,sgoinnnel! An cnoc feille! The two ways of looking ,now and into the future.

[@williamkay9924]

I couldn't agree more with you rob Marshall

[@lindapadley5806]

If you ever go to Skye the contrasts are spectacular! Start at Dunvegan and go to Armadale. Desolate to not sure how to say. Much more plant life. Runrig gives life to so many things! Just like the island itself!

[@steven3433]

Only just heard of this band and I love what I hear, could listen forever

[@scottwray01]

Still listening going into 2020!!!

[@jimmymalone9139]

SIOL IRISH FOR SEED. TOP SOUNDS

[@donnaclark6201]

I prefer Rory singing Alba, but they all have songs that suit them best!

[@evelynrobinson9233]

What a tune - my dad would've absolutly loved it!

[@blazinstars6660]

its in the eyebrows

[@knus1959]

Hi all you scot' you have my respect. And you have all reason to be proude of your land. I'm very happy that our lovely Danish Royal family have got our two countries closer, when Mary was merried to crown prince Frederik. Even I'm from the northern part of Denmark, who has it's own flag (blue, with a green and orange cross)I'm trying to learn gaelic, it's diffelcult, but I'm getting better, with big help from Runrigs music. And the best of all, my sweetheart is scotish. ;-) Have a nice day. ;-)

[@MaryroseScott]

I love this! Thank You!

[@grahamfleming8139]

Linn gu linn, ainm gu ainm, Clann domhnal gu brath, 5 mill air feadh an soaghal,

[@Evanmonster1]

Preserve your culture and heritage, Scotland. Don't end up like London!!!

[@Buspest]

Where have you been hiding Steven...lol Been following Runrig since the 80's, no other band comes close to them.... :-) I'm in this video, taken many years ago...lol Get well soon Malcolm, see ya soon pal... xxxxx

[@kate285]

Brilliant, Thanks craigrich. wish I,d been around years ago.

[@marconatrix]

You're forgetting the major Norse input to Gaelic Scotland. The Goraidh of the song was Guðrøðr Crobh-bhán. Several important clans claim him as their ancestor. Scots Gaelic was 'made in Scotland' by mixing Middle Irish from Ireland with Norse, plus Pictish and Brittish. You don't have to pretend it was 'always there' to make it Scottish now. Everybody and everything originally came from somewhere else, just as there are lots of influences in the music. It's the final mix that gives the blas.

[@TomorrowWeLive]

A man who does not know the names of his ancestors is like a mind without a memory, a tree without roots.

[@scottishalwaysdixie1638]

Yesterday you died 👌

[@joanmclo]

Thanks..I've been meaning to do that (when I've got the cash!) Yeh just got their dvd and on the extra bits it tells us Rory is married with 2 daughters and Calum has two daughters and one son. Great username bye the way, Siol Ghoraidh is my absolute favourite Runrig song!

[@dawnmcgregor1323]

The best song ever

[@usrunrigfan]

Stop with the negative comments! They are both great vocalists!

[@xWHITExEAGLEx]

Yes there is Norse influence in Scotland, it's hard to put everything in a KZbin comment. Well I never said it was "always there", I think Celtic languages (in the Q form) arrived 500 BC or thereabouts in Scotland but I'm not sure (don't think any one is). And since it's IndoEuropean it has to have come from the Caucuses around 4,000 years ago! Linguists do now think though that Q Celtic was first and so Gaelic was already in Scotland before the new P shift (Picitish(British) from the SE.

[@geordiesworld]

I'm Scots as are all my family going back generations. Love all of Runrig's work, listened to it for years, but as I'm from the southwest (Ayrshire, although generations back from Argyll), was never exposed to gaelic / taught it at school. Does anybody know a good internet source of the english translations of Runrigs gaelic music as its kinda crazy that after all these years of appreciating their music I still struggle to grasp the lyrics of the gaelic songs ..

[@rossb2006]

Yup... A tune without doubt!

[@SavedandSound]

Hi, Joanie--It's Debra, your "competition" for the MacDonald brothers, LOL! So you've also learned that they're taken--O whatever shall we do??? We'll always have KZbin (and our dreams!) ;D xxx

[@icebear1405]

@saltydog16 Today, this is not Runrig. Nothing against the new Singer. He tries the best, but please. please let Donnie come back!! He was the Voice of Runrig!! A former Fan, until Donnie comes back!! But than, Runrig forever!!

[@DenizBevan]

Two lovely songs - I can't wait to get this DVD! (Typical human beings huh, chasing the unknown with guns and sticks... ah well!) I wish they'd come play Canada!!!!

[@icebear1405]

@Newbattle2007 Hätte mich auch gewundert. Aber gesungen hat Donnie sie nun mal (auch in einigen Liedern Rory), ich glaube, das waren die beiden Einzigen, die richtig gälisch singen konnten. Düsseldorf, Loreley, Kölner Tanzbrunnen (da konnten selbst die Kölner gälisch singen - hörst Du bei Alba auf Transmitting), etc.- überall dabei gewesen. Und jedesmal genial. Aber es kann eben kein anderer "Loch Lomond" singen. Hoffe sie besinnen sich und holen Donnie zurück. Dann sofort ab in den CD- Shop !

[@terrorkaiser]

so damn thanks for this wonderful video

[@nickgeddie306]

The voice of Donny Macleod made Runrig special, the new guy doesn't do it for me

[@birte_noah1894]

Best version of both Love it

[@katekakes]

i love runrig and i love ireland this band is the greatest

[@bobbyscott2123]

Runrig are Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@tallykita]

My fave song of all time.....

[@tomtt47]

Try to order Runrig DVDs on musicscotland website. They helped me to send DVDs to Slovakia. U.S. must be without problem.

[@filhoduval]

great band, i only knew runrig last year and since then i've been thinking to my self, where the hell have they been all this years? this is an old footage with Donnie Munro, just look at Calum with black hair... :)

[@HOPSCOTCHEMPO]

SUPERB-THANK YOU!

[@jimmymalone9139]

WENT TO GIGS UMPTEEN TIMES. THEIR PERCUSSION THARR BARR. IONTACH

[@knus1959]

Hi dercarsus :-) Then I MUST have a lot of scottish blood in my veins, even I'm danish, 'cause I CAN feel.

[@jaggy-snake]

My Grandfather was a Macdonald originally from Sleat and he married a Macdonald from North Uist[ my granny obviously ]..interesting because his family were never really accepted completely ... maybe this goes back to that battle they talked about...I'm actually related to Calum and Rory in some way...

[@lessdone]

I could be wrong but I heard that Calum's Donald is named after Donnie and one of Donnie's sons is named Calum in return.

[@pauledwards5573]

Powerful!!!

[@icebear1405]

@this0033 Runrig without Donnie is like U2 without Bono, or Unheilig without the Graf. They were so great!!

[@SavedandSound]

Hey, Joanie--I was wondering the same, LOL! Debra ;D

[@54spiritedwill54]

Brilliant song, Gàidhlig at its best

[@kimnoble9981]

One of Runrig's songs ever after 'S tu mo Leannan / Nightfall on Marsco

[@magisma52]

¿Que si me gustan? Me encantan!!! Ójala vengan a tocar aquí algún día...

[@DavidFarrellShaw]

superb = homesick

[@nicolleboyd3681]

where can i get the video of just the kids singing siol ghoraidh was absolutely beautiful

[@knus1959]

Hi john. (I'm a danish girl)I'm sorry, if I had hurt your feelings, but I have a little bit of scottish blood in me, 'cause long time ago in my family tree there was some scottish family members and some of them traveled to Denmark. ;-) And I can sing some of Runrig's songs in gaelic. Have a nice evening. :-)

[@icebear1405]

@tinasiig no defence.. but it was Donnie´s voice what made them great. Of course Bruce is a good singer, not bad. And I wish, Donnie would come back. And the reasons, why Donnie left the band may be his personal, but i´m missing him (excuse me for my bad english)

[@The-Elfin-Knight]

Tha gradh agam ort Runrig

[@marybeattie4342]

FREEDOM

[@icebear1405]

@this0033 this is my oppinion too. they are not the same. Donnie has been runrig.

[@Newbattle2007]

@this0033 The problem with Bruce is that he's not Scottish. He's Canadian and has this country and western music tembre in his voice that I can't cope with. For me Runrig were a symbol of Scotland and they've lost a part of this when they decided to have a singer from a different cultural backgrund. It was never about having the best or a perfect singer. It was about identity and singing in gaelic and I can't explain what else. When Donnie left, they lost their soul.

[@BunkerGearGal]

@jimbob1969 My father MacDonald of Glencoe, my mother of sleat. I have the second sight, and am mad as a hatter, of course! ALBA GU BRAITH!

[@ollach]

This reminds me of Uist.

[@jaggy-snake]

are you from Uist? .. my grandparents are from Kirkebost and claddach illeray

[@JohnnyDeppigX]

i love it!

[@weeabi1]

Sorry guys but I like Bruce! Different I grant you but a much mellower mood thesedays.