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KMJ November 2012.Indd Stunning Manx and Scottish Gaelic performances at this year’s Cooish Festival This year’s Cooish Manx and Inter-Gaelic Festival had a wonderfully relaxed feel, with Manx music at every turn. Not only was there a packed session in the Manx Gaeltacht that is the Albert, Purt le Moirrey, but there was busking outside Douglas Post Offi ce and very fi ne support acts for the Cooish gig in the Centenary Centre in Peel. Supporting the wonderful Scottish duo MacMaster/Hay were two new groups. The fi rst stemmed from Paul Rogers’ Club Kiaull at QEII High School and showcased the very fi ne talents of young singers, fi ddle and whistle players Isla Callister-Wafer and Doona Lambden, with Paul Rogers supporting them brilliantly on guitar. They were followed by a new partnership - Ruth Keggin and Matt Creer - taking a mix of Manx Gaelic songs and self-penned material. Ruth also took time to teach Manx songs to visiting lecturer Dr Emily McEwan-Fujita from Nova Scotia, who was keen to take a lot of Manx song in the form of Skeeal, Caarjyn Cooidjagh, Staa, Cliogaree Twoaie and Brian Stowell (just to mention a few!) home with her. The Cooish is a great way for people to share Gaelic culture and to swap ideas. It’s also a great time to chat away in our beloved chengey ny mayrey - the Manx Gaelic language. More info on www.learnmanx.com Fab photos of PCC gig by Andi Howland for MHF... other not such glam photos by KMJ :) kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation Jenn Butterworth and Euan Burton teaching Scottish tunes to Bree students before their gig with the Rachel Hair Trio in the Centenary Centre in Peel on 6 October Jenn and Euan taught Scottish tunes by ear such as: Buntata Sgadan The Famous Bridge Cota Mor Ealisaid Nusa For more info about Bree see www.manxmusic.com/education.html The new Manx harp ensemble, Claasagh, supported the Rachel Hair Trio. The young harpers are taught by Rachel Hair for the Manx Heritage Foundation each month. They made their debut performance at Yn Chruinnaght 2012 and delighted the audience in Peel with wonderful tunes and arrangements. kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation Learn MANX DANCING with PERREE BANE 6 weeks of lessons at £3 a week and then a CEILIDH to celebrate our 30th Birthday Starts SUNDAY 4th November 7pm-8pm Ballasalla Village Hall, Mill Road, Ballasalla Just come along - All welcome! We would love to see musicians as well Phone Caroline Helps 467751 / 833208 for more details if needed Manx dancing in Massachusetts Four Manx dances performed in New England, October 6, 2012 by And Sometimes Y! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnLj 9LdcsD8&feature=youtu.be Gorse Sticks Mylecharane’s March White Boys Eunyssagh Vona This video comes from Tom Hutcheson, who learnt dances from Carol Hayes and Perree Bane. kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation DIG UP THOSE BONES! Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th November will see the Isle of Man host its fi rst trombone extravaganza - THE GREAT BIG FAT MANX TROMBONE FESTIVAL with THE BLACK DYKE TROMBONE QUARTET! The event will open with Saturday pm workshops led by Brett Baker and his Black Dyke Trombone Quartet, followed by an evening of fun with a trombonists open mic / social session at Northern Lights Community Centre, Ramsey. Sunday will see a late morning rehearsal followed by a lunchtime recital featuring The Black Dyke Trombone Quartet, Ramsey Town Band, and of course! The Great Big Fat Manx Trombone Choir! The event will be polished off with a post concert Manx Cream Tea included in the ticket price for everyone! The event is intended to both celebrate and promote the trombone – a fantastic and incredibly versatile instrument that is at home in an orchestra as it is in a jazz band or even folk music! In a world where the trombone is becoming increasingly ‘endangered’, this is also a chance to celebrate the Island’s wealth of trombonists – an off shoot of our brass band tradition. Organisers Jackie Morrey-Grace and Peter Cannell state “All trombone players of Mann and beyond are welcome – young, old, inbetween - from the absolute beginner to the seasoned pro. We really want this to be a great success and our intention is bring everyone together for a weekend of fun, perhaps fl ushing out some old trombonists and maybe even creating some new ones!” Other brass players who can grab a trombone for the weekend are also welcome of course as the workshops will cover many technical challenges! The event has received strong and generous support so far, from the British Trombone Society and the Black Dyke Quartet to the Isle of Man Arts Council. Jackie states, “We have also had wonderful support from the people at Warwick Music Supplies who have kindly donated 2 pbones (plastic beginner trombones) for us to competition off and to Times illustrator, David Lyttleton who created our little logo and mascot ‘Viking Tom Bone’. We are so grateful to everyone involved so far for their kindness and enthusiasm”. For more information, festival and Sunday recital tickets, or to order hats and T-shirts featuring our logo, please contact the organisers at [email protected] or message them on Facebook at ‘The Great Big Fat Trombone Festival’. “Don’t blow it! Be part of this exciting event and contact us now!” Tickets for the whole festival cost £25 per adult, £12.50 per student in full time education, with extra subsidies for BTS members. Tickets to the Sunday concert cost £14 per adult, £7 per child under 14. All these tickets include a post concert Manx Cream Tea. Contact: [email protected] kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation Friday night session celebrates 25 years! Leila Kneale and Robin Boyle from Phynnodderree organised a wonderful reunion session at the Tynwald Inn, St Johns on Friday 19 October. With faces from over the years, the tunes rolled on and on. Leila and Robin extended a warm welcome to everyone and reminded people that they were there every Friday if they wanted to have a tune. Fiddle player and artist Heather Hall also launched her lovely new Manx music themed notelets which are available from the session. With a mixture of etchings and colourful graphics, they celebrate Manx music wonderfully. Photos: Andi Howland for MHF kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation BREE OCTOBER HOP TU NAA WORKSHOP WEEKEND Bree celebrated Hop tu naa with its 7th annual weekend of music, dance and drama workshops at Douglas Youth Arts Centre on Kensington Road. Taking the traditional songs, dance and stories of Hop tu naa as inspiration, the talented youngsters worked with Bree tutors to produce a very creative concert at the end of the weekend. As well as performances from three new folk groups, Moot Reesht, The Weird Frogs and The Spooky Singers, the programme also included a new song called “Clock Strikes Twelve”, a play about Jinny the Witch, compositions in the Manx idiom and a fantastic new dance for four called “The Accident” (Y Drogh Haghyrt). The concert ended with an all-singing, all- dancing and all-playing rendition of Hop tu naa! kiaull manninagh jiu 11/12 manx heritage foundation MANX NATIONAL AIRS THE LOST WORK OF DEEMSTER J.F. GILL AND DOCTOR JOHN CLAGUE by Stephen Miller Many will be familiar with Manx National Songs (1896) and maybe, less so, with Manx National Music (1898), both the outcome of the collecting activities in the 1890s of the Gill Brothers, W.H. Gill and Deemster J.F. Gill, as well as Dr John Clague. Planned from the start, however, was a trilogy of publications, and the one that did not appear was Manx National Airs. Deemster Gill, when President of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society in his retiring address from 1897 outlined the aims of this publication: The large and increasing amount of our material causes us still to pause, but we hope ere long to be in a position to publish the third section of our work (which in antiquarian importance is the fi rst), consisting of all the melodies we have collected, with suitable notes, explanatory of their character, peculiarities, probable origin and so on, indicating too the localities in which they were found, and the names, ages, occupations, &c., of those from whom they were obtained, and whose knowledge of them was traditional. Manx National Music (1898) contained an essay by W.H. Gill titled “Manx Music: A Sketch,” where he mentioned “[t]he propriety of these restorations, or the contrary, can be tested when, in accordance with our original plan, the actual melodies as we found them shall have been published in a separate volume.” This line must have galled his brother and Clague as they were both then well aware that Boosey’s promise to publish Manx National Airs was a verbal one only and not the subject of a contract as was Manx National Songs and Manx National Music, and further, he was not going to follow up on it. In addition, Gill himself did not particularly wish to see it appear and here was paying lip service to the idea. The line quoted contains the problem that he had with the intention to publish “the actual melodies,” namely that people would then see the nature and extent of his so-called “restorations.” W.H. Gill produced the test pieces for the Manx Music classes at The Guild, drawing on the material that both he and Clague had collected.
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