Fear a' Bhàta | Sabhal Mòr Ostaig

[@thegreatselkie6009]

Exquisite!!! 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@Formicola]

I studied Gaelic at Sabhal Mor Ostaig with my father (he was in the intermediate class and I was a beginner!) in the summer of 1996. Lovely memories, including us all singing 'Illean Bithibh Sunndach' while one of the teachers, a young blond man, played the accordeon, and a Welsh woman possibly called Ffran singing a Welsh song about a woman in a coffin with a ring. (I still have a good friend from that long-ago class.) My father often sang Fear a Bhata to me, and other Gaelic songs (his grandfather was a native speaker who came 'down south' to Glasgow, but my grandfather didn't get it natively). I still haven't been able to find some of the songs we sang at Sabhal Mor - one of these days I may work up the gumption to call and sing them through the phone so someone there can dispel the mystery! I remember the tunes but I can't find the bit of paper they handed out that bore the lyrics on it. Anyway - I'm happy that these traditions are kept alive. My father is gone and I'll never again hear him singing this, but other voices will continue to sing in his place.

[@anthonyparker1650]

I love this. Didn't understand a word, but with my eyes closed I could instantly tell it was a Celtic language from these isles. Sounds so similar to Cymraeg that it just pulls at my heart strings. A song filled with hiraeth. Diolch yn fawr o Gymru.

[@Lancelot0311]

This was amazing! Great job

[@Nestor.of.Cappodocia]

Beautiful 🌿💐🇬🇧

[@cathyclay8251]

The boat man I first heard it by Capercaillie many years ago. Love Gaelic and Gaelige and Cymreig

[@jimpenny8771]

Math Fhein! Bha an seinn iongantach, agus an taic-ciùil foirfe. Bidh e a’ cur crith sìos mo dhruim. Tha mi an dòchas barrachd ceòl mar seo a chluinntinn. (Tha mi duilich. Chan eil mo Ghàidhlig as fheàrr fhathast.)

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

Iontach, is breá liom é, tá glór álainn aic

[@oisinoceallaigh1671]

Hi. Is toil leam seo. Love it. I'm from Ireland but my daughter is part Scottish so I'm trying to expand my knowledge of Gaelic across the sea. I sing this song and it seems most versions out there is actually Irish people messing up the pronunciation and just doing it in Irish and I don't want to do that. Can you tell me are you from a Gaelteacht area and if so what dialect you'd be singing in here ?? Míle buíchas - mòran taing!

[@gerald-dw7vp]

Go bhfios domh 's as Uibhist a Tuath dá teaghlach, is dóigh liom gurb í an chanúint sin atá aici.

[@ealasaidrivera2993]

❤

[@woodybrison]

O, bha sin brèagha

[@petertimmerman7580]

I am trying to find out who is the artist singing in this song?

[@thomasobrien6546]

It's Ellen MacDonald of course (of Dàimh fame!). This vid is a novelty for me though. She talks here (kzbin.info/www/bejne/qnmWfI2YhZZoobM) about her family's history on North Ùist.

[@derkhoekman9971]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2bQpomdlL-Km80 hieronder staat wie zij is

[@stevegrieb6596]

Beautiful music, Sorry it was a Samsung commercial.

[@papadoc711]

I know only greeting and acknowledging words in my mother tongue, it does make me feel shame not being able to hold a conversation with nativer speakers.