The Highland Sessions: canntaireachd

From the BBC series The Highland Sessions

[@maureenanncadell4635]

This is my beautiful, talented Aunt Rona. I miss you so much.

[@AlbertoAblanedo]

She has my most sincere admiration. All the best!

[@tammycash7003]

She is beautiful. I stumbled upon her video w the other women, forgive I forget the name. Love her. May she rest in peace.

[@JobHuntingAbroad]

I'm so sorry to hear that. RIP to your lovely aunt...I found her song before somewhere else on KZbin, she is amazing. She has just stepped over to the other side, you'll see her again - that's what I believe. Lots of ❤

[@ReverendPop]

This is our was the way pipers imparted a tune for the first time. I had the honour of hearing Dennis Carruthers perform one, complete with the places where the piper takes a breath. It's not "scat", it's a way to convey the notes correctly.

[@bb3ca201]

The first tune is actually puirt-a-beul. The actual canntaireachd starts at 2:03

[@lochlainnmacneill2870]

Exactly

[@alasdaircorbett]

I remember learning this tune on the bagpipes and my tutor using canntaireachd when he was teaching me... as liamindc says this is not quite canntaireachd but it's great to hear it with other instruments. :)

[@RaghnaidAnnaNicGaraidh]

Where I am, lots of fiddlers use something like this to teach the tunes. "You can't play a tune until you can sing it". We call it "singing the huddums and duddies"

[@urikadoori]

I love the minimalistic setting! By the way, the title "canntaireachd" is slightly misleading. The actual Canntaireachd doesn't start till about 2:14.

[@urikadoori]

Allan is really amazing. I love both his singing and piping. The instrument he's playing here is called Jew's Harp and it's common throughout Europe. In Norway it's called Munnharpe, I haven't seen it used often in Scottish/Irish music though..

[@clawhmmrbanjo]

well, now i know where the québécois vocal narration comes from!

[@FrancescPunsola]

Excellent the hability of that woman ! and Alain McDonald is so a awesome piper.

[@minina3425]

Rona Lightfoot, I love her! ❤️

[@talynhastime9343]

I think I've found something to obsess over for the rest of the summer (short as it may be now).

[@perrypiobaireachd]

your right.... only this kind of cantaireachd is with Gaelic accent ... the man with the mouth gitaar thingie ( allan macdonald ) this man knows how to sing it right.... It's a shame there so less cantaireachd singing on you tube...

[@lttljimi]

svenax, Before written music came onto the scene, that IS how bagpipe tunes were learned.

[@liamindc]

You have to wait til the second tune to hear the piping canntaireachd ...

[@animalunaris]

This really grows on you!

[@mhicnanolc]

It seems to me that The Rankin Family sang a Gàidhlig song to that tune on one of their early albums.

[@PoitinCZ]

will you have a listen to this lot?

[@pml08usaf]

Was it a song prior to that point? It sounded more like words, but I wouldn't know since I don't speak Scots Gaelic.

[@UISTMAN59]

Other have said it before but I'll say it anyway - The cainntearachd is found from 2:14 to 3:19. Not three bad.

[@dragonflysridge9875]

Is this the Gaelic version of scat?

[@georgemacdonald3087]

Nice, pity the pitch of the bodhran clashes so badly.

[@lochlainnmacneill2870]

Canntaireachd?

[@svenax]

That was nice, but it really doesn't have anything to do with piping canntaireachd as she says in the beginning of the clip.

[@mhicnanolc]

Nevermind... Rona Lightfoot

[@mhicnanolc]

Anybody catch the name of the woman singing?

[@bb3ca201]

mhicnanolc catching this 8 years later, but the singer's name is Rona Lightfoot

[@mhicnanolc]

Found it on their first album "Bodachan A'Mhìrein"

[@perrypiobaireachd]

I bought a "jew harp"a few years ago in scotland...now i know what is cald thank you.. p