Luanistyn 2020 August Neear Nesañ: The Breton-Manx Collaboration
Just released - a live concert of Breton-Manx music; a brilliant coming together of four great musicians from two great music & song traditions.
This was a collaborative project supported by Culture Vannin in 2019, which saw its first fruits in this live performance at Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering in July 2019.
The performers are Lors Landat, Thomas Moisson, David Kilgallon and Mera Royle, who together form Neear Nesañ. WATCH HERE www.culturevannin.im/watchlisten/videos/breton-manx-collaboration-640811/
In this month’s edition... • Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering so far... • Peddyr Trad Trio live concert videos
• 200 years of The Mona Melodies kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin YC Ceili band-Ellan Vannin Pipes &Drums-SingalongwithPhil, Bill&Greg, 7.30pm Family Ceili dress (optional!)Corrin Hall, -nauticalfancy Peel £5/£3U16 refreshments from Mooinjey Veggey andBreizhVannin Creperie. Grounds, Peel, 12-5pm,free entry. children’s Music, craft, dance, artisan activities, Cruinnaght Jesarn-SaturdaySat 25thJuly: Gathering intheCorrin HallandCathedral Vooar -SOLDOUT Isla Callister andClash &MalcolmStitt, Annie Kissack Friday Night Manx concertRoyle, withMera 24thJuly: Lawrence.Mark sessionistas, IslaCallister, MalcolmStitt &Kirsty, & Katie includeJamieSmith,Paul Noa performers Rogers, Irish and live streaming fromHall. NoaMarket phrase for theday, quizzes miniconcerts, andstories... andlanguagelessons,and musicworkshops, cookery Band to finishoffthis year's YnChruinnaght festival.Bring yourinstruments andstay on www.celticgathering.im House onSunday evening for thisfabulous,Mollag finalfree gig withthe wonderful SUNDAY 26THJULY 7.30pmSurprise! YC have addedanothergig! to Go the White to play some tunes afterwards too.to play sometunesafterwards Spread theword! Hopeto seeyou there. Don’t ifyou’ve worry missedany ofit,because allthevideosare onlineat Free/donations ~Children welcome until 10pm medley ofstarcontributors: song a range ofvideosproduced by a Celtic Nation celebrated through Each day hasseenadifferent having agreat time! and thosetuninginfrom afarare and festival goersontheIsland full swingthisweek (20-26July) Chruinnaght Celtic isin Gathering andreal The virtual Yn andontheCelticIOM-Yn Gathering ChruinnaghtFacebook.
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kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin Centre. CentreTickets £6from Arts Erin 7.30p.m. Sunday 23rd August atArts Erin Green by theSea Hills 2nd August 6.30pm Ballafesson Chapel, onSunday Port Erin Delayed Tynwald at Service CAARJYN COOIDJAGH DATES abbey/?fbclid=IwAR2SuVQu2aUMFOU_s9jhp- VwE2RAxcgvu2gdyMklv_troIwUJjSW9p-gKzY Tickets: £8Adults, £2Children (under18) im/shop/product/picnic-in-the- https://manxnationalheritage. Rushen Abbey, Ballasalla 23rd: Royle, Mera Perree Bane, 16th Arabella Ayen, Skeddan Organised by Event Management Every Sunday Every inAugust Picnic intheAbbey Culture Vannin National &Manx 9th: Owen 9th: Owen Williams,Perree Solutions with the support of withthesupport Solutions Heritage Jiarg, BiskeeBrisht, Bane, Clash Vooar 3:30pm –5:00pm Mollag Band Mollag
kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin Gura mieayd: Caroline Perree Banegather for thefirsttimeoutoflockdown for apicnicandlotsofdancing! Helps for pics Friends reunited!!
kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin ‘Mollyndroat’ ~ the lockdown musical ~ The Bunscoill Ghaelgagh’s special lockdown musical (all recorded remotely and cleverly edited together by teacher, Bnr Aalin Clague) is being aired over three weeks on Claare ny Gael on Manx Radio on Sundays at 6pm. Many of the songs were co-written by Annie Kissack, who is retiring from the Bunscoill this term. The whole show is also available to hear on Bob Carswell’s Gaelic show, Traa dy Liooar: www.manxradio.com/radioplayer/fm/od/items/traa-dy-liooar-20th-july/ You can join in too so learn the songs here: https://soundcloud.com/user-884467581/sets/learn-the-songs-from BONUS - hear the children sing the songs at the Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering in the Corrin Hall at 1pm on Saturday 25th July: www.celticgathering.im
Southlands Resource Centre, (Church Road, Port St Mary) are planning their entertainment programme and the residents would love to receive from visits from Manx musicians and dancers. If you can help, please email the Duty Manager: [email protected]
Eldergrange are asking whether any musicians and/or dancers are available to come and perform for the residents next month and beyond? If you can help, please contact Gerda 626282 or [email protected] kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin TREISHT #2 PROJECTS More Manx creative brilliance is on its way... When lockdown started, we launched the #treisht2020 scheme to support creatives through a series of projects engaging with, promoting & celebrating our Island and its culture. They proved to be so successful that it is now being repeated, with even more people involved, including...
* Vicky Webb will be working on Manx language GIFs which will be used freely online, especially in social media. * David Rowles will prepare backing tracks for the Steady as She Goes session sets which are available online as a teaching resource for all ages. * Ged Power suggested an original project to make oral history recordings relating to two areas he is particularly close to, sport and the police. * Author of popular book, M is for Manx Cat, Gemma Hjerth, will produce a film which will be made available online and which will assist with pronunciations in Manx featured in the book. * Heritage education specialist, Cori Philips will write three short, lively radio scripts based on Manx historical themes, with a target age of 8-10 year olds * Visual artists Beth Louella Fine Art and Eve Adams will focus on BAME portraits and Manx illustrations for educational resources respectively. * As part of Culture Vannin’s commitment to an inter-Gaelic project Colmcille 1500 celebrating the life of St Columba, Aalin Clague will write a choral work suitable for community choir, in Manx and other Gaelic languages. * Rebecca Hurst, Mera Royle Music, Isla Callister Music and Laura Rowles will all produce video tutorials for traditional instruments, whistle, harp and fiddle which will be featured on www. manxmusic.com as a resource with international reach.
We are excited at the wealth of great things that will be produced through these projects and we look forward to sharing them with you over the coming weeks and months.
More information is available here: www.culturevannin.im/news/more-creative-projects-underway-as-part-of-the-culture-vannin- treisht2020-scheme-641303/?fbclid=IwAR127x56cgn6VIy07RVtraT3ttspgLl0TCqKf-MbeavYrsA- SFujoiKxWb5Y The image here is by Beth Louella, and it was created as a part of the first round of #treisht2020 projects: https:// www.culturevannin.im/watchlisten/imagearchive/take-heart-the-traditionary-ballad-by-beth-louella/ kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin Compton Vaults, Castletown - August gigs!
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Musicians at the Mitre in Ramsey were glad to get their Friday night session back... and there are two new session venues!! • The Saddle Inn, Douglas - trad music every Wednesday night (replacing O’Donnell’s), 8.30pm
• The Ginger Hall, Sulby - monthly Sundays 3pm. kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin Some of the great things created for Tynwald Day this year... 'Tynwald Day Slides' An amazing set of Manx trad tunes played by some of the Island's leading musicians; Isla Callister Music, Tomas Callister Music & David Kilgallon: https://www.facebook.com/islacallistermusic/videos/701197940734539/ 'Modern-day Manx with Will and Isla' A great Manx lesson from Will Holden & Isla Callister, courtesy of Gef The Mongoose: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=3050142921728923 The Manx National Anthem All 8 verses of it sung & accompanied (!) by the ever-brilliant Gareth Moore: https://www.facebook.com/gareth.moore.75/videos/10156964622701431/ A National Week Concert from Arbory Parish Commissioners A great 20-minute concert featuring the likes of Arbory School, the King Family, Meadowside Choral Society, Noel Cringle, Peter Vernon, Phil Gawne & Annie Kissack and the Williams Family: https://youtu.be/YsCf5fteGmY Jeant dy mie, everyone involved in these great Manx films!
Thornton Chartered Financial Planners - Island Influencers · 8 July · One of the key people behind the restoration of the Centenary Centre in Peel, bassist with Clash Vooar and the Mollag Band, and the founder of the Our Island Our World is Dave Mclean. Also a pharmacist, entrepreneur and multiple business owner, Dave talks to Sharon Sutton about his career and family life in the latest new episode of Island Influencers. Listen free of charge to the podcast at
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The Isle of Man's most anticipated debut album is released; Moylley as soylley da Biskee Brisht! For those who have been out-of-the-loop for the past 3 or 4 years, here is the quick re-cap of what Biskee Brisht is all about: * Twice winners of the Arrane son Mannin song competition, with N’Abbyr Ny Smoo and Dty Skeealyn * Band members include Ruby Biscoe-Taylor (once of the mighty Manx trad group, Pobble) and David Kinley (formerly of the legendary The Tholtan Builders) * One of the most popular live bands in the Isle of Man right now (and, of course, one of our own favourite bands!) * Despite having had singles available for years, their first album has only just been released, thanks in part to support from Culture Vannin & our friends at Isle of Man Arts Council... working together to make the Isle of Man an even more wonderful place. Please take a listen, enjoy, and support a great Manx band: https://biskeebrisht.bandcamp.com/album/stand-in-the-sea https://www.facebook.com/biskeebrisht/ [pic below]
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<< Yn Chruinnaght Celtic Gathering have put together an extensive SPOTIFY Manx music playlist
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“A RARITY IN THESE DAYS OF ANGLICISATION” (1907)
“A rarity in these days of Anglicisation is a singer who can favour an audience with good Manx,” so reported the Peel City Guardian in 1907. It continued, “Miss Craine, of Sulby, gave ‘Kirree fo Niaghtey,’ to the unbounded delight of her hearers.” She was singing to “a jolly party of half-a-hundred Manx-Americans and their relations and friends belonging to the Island,” who had gathered in the grounds of Peel Castle for a 4th of July “Manx-American Pic-Nic.” The Manx Americans present avoided the cliché of everyone from America living in Ohio—Mr C.C. Clucas resided in Chicago; Rev J. and Mrs Craine and daughter, Ognawka, Illinois; Mrs Davenport, Albany, N.Y.; Mr and Mrs J.L. DeRenzy and son, Tacoma, Washington; Mr John Gawne, Chicago; Mr David Kaighin and Miss Minnie Kaighin, Oak Park, Chicago; Mr J.E. and Mrs Kelly, Wymore, Nebraska; Mr W.J. Kelly, Galva, Illinois; Mr and Miss Lizzie Quayle, Chicago; Mr J. Radcliffe, Illinois; Miss Sayle, Chicago; Mr and Mrs J.C. Shimmin and daughter, Monmouth, Illinois, U.S.A.; Mrs Skillicorn, Albany, N.Y.; Mr and Mrs Wise, Chicago. She was not the only one to sing in Manx on the day as the Rev. J.R. Craine (no relation) after his speech “added that he was going to sing a little Manx air his grandmother had taught him.” Just as it was a rarity to find someone to sing in Manx, so too now was it equally rare to find an audience who could understand the language, “[t]hough the majority present could not follow Manx, this vocal effort in the mother tongue by Mr Craine was much esteemed.” There were other songs sung at the picnic, Walter Clucas “obliged with the rousing ‘Ramsey Town,’” and Miss J. Kelly “with a verse of the beautiful ‘Hush, Little Darling’ from the Manx National Songs.” All joined in with singing “Ellan Vannin,” which “was sung with evident feeling,” as too was the Manx Fishermen’s Evening Hymn. And to round the picnic and the singing off, “Miss Katie Clucas, a young lady with an excellent voice, rendered what proved two new songs to many of the party ‘I’m a native of Peel’ and ‘The Manx Wedding.’” These songs were chosen with care, not just to entertain, but also to create a sense of Manxness on the day, the use of song to bond the party together as Manx folk. Returning to “Miss Craine, of Sulby,” she is properly Elizabeth Craine of Cooilbane, Sulby and Sophia Morrison was to visit her the next month as she wrote to W.H. Gill in a letter dated 13 August 1907: I think more scraps of music might still be gained. I heard some bits the other day in Sulby Glen at the house of Mrs Craine, but when Mrs Craine & her daughter told me that they had often sung to you, I felt assured that you had collected all they have to give. In the 1901 census, Elizabeth C. Craine, was 28 years old, unmarried, and working as a dressmaker. Her mother, Elizabeth C. Craine, aged 59, was born in Jurby, and her husband was Daniel J. Craine, born in Lezayre as was his daughter, also aged 59, and working as a roadman. All three spoke Manx and English. With Gill having already visited and collected from mother and daughter, Morrison passed on the opportunity. W.H. Gill’s personal papers are lost and so there is nothing now to draw on as regards his collecting from the pair.
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YN CHRUINNAGHT 1995 25 years ago? It seems like only yesterday...! Culture Vannin were delighted to come by a VHS recording from 1995 of Yn Chruinnaght celebrating the music & dance of the Celtic Nations. Thanks to John Dowling's recording, you can enjoy those sunny days in the Mooragh Park with the likes of Perree Bane, Ny Fennee, Bock Yuan Fennee, Bwoaie Doal, the Cair Vie Pipe Band (forerunner of the Ellan Vannin Pipes & Drums) & the legendary Tholtan Builders... As well as all the other great acts from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall & Brittany. There was c. 3 hours of wonderful footage and over an hour's worth of further footage is available to enjoy (and/or cringe over) here: https://www.culturevannin.im/…/…/yn-chruinnaght-1995-641017/
We release this in celebration of Celtic Gathering Isle of Man - Yn Chruinnaght, which is celebrating its 43rd wonderful festival next week. All info: https://ynchruinnaght.com/ kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin
1 Haydn Wood and the Isle of Man, a chronology from the Isle of Man newspapers Compiled, edited and annotated by Maurice Powell
Extracts from the Manx newspapers for 1901
Isle of Man Times 24th August: Sunday Concert at the Palace. Haydn Wood plays an arietta and Manx Rhapsody composed by himself.* ‘In the Rhapsody the blending of music national and redolent of the Island was most felicitously carried out. The Manx nation should be very proud of this young musician and composer. One day he should win for himself a place ‘at the very top of the tree’.
* An early work not known to the compiler of these reports. Not to be confused with the well-known Manx Rhapsody for orchestra of 1931, one of the composer’s most performed works.
Isle of Man Times 31st August: From a letter to the editor from ‘a German lady’: ‘I am going to the Island, and on Sunday evening I shall listen to (American-born dramatic soprano) Madame Ella Russell, to Tom Child, the popular Yorkshire tenor, and a youngster named Haydn Wood, who plays the fiddle like an angel, and if he chooses to work (hard), may be one of the musicians of the century’.
Isle of Man Times 14th December, reprinted from the Maidenhead Advertiser: A talented young Manx musician, Haydn Wood, performs virtuoso violin pieces by Sarasate and Saint-Saens at a Monday concert. Two encores. ‘. . . a revelation . . . (he) proves himself a complete master of the violin’.
Isle of Man Examiner 21st December: The Mikado at the Grand Theatre, Douglas, St. Stephen’s Night, December 27th and January 1st and 2nd given by Douglas Choral Union. Full orchestra would Harry Wood and Haydn Wood, violins, and Daniel Wood, flute; piano Harry Rushworth; conductor F. C. Poulter. ‘It certainly looks like a capital musical ensemble’.
Isle of Man Times 21st December: a brief report of Douglas School Children’s concert on Thursday 19th. Haydn Wood plays in his brother Harry’s student orchestra, but unusually does not perform a solo.
INSIDERS/OUTSIDERS ONLINE EVENTS Last week (20th July), a zoom discussion was held as part of Insiders/Outsiders event. Beyond Barbed Wire: Musicians in Mooragh Internment Camp, Ramsey, Isle of Man, an event exploring the life of Mooragh Camp through the eyes of three musicians interned there in 1940: the pianist Ferdinand Rauter, the conductor and composer Peter Gellhorn, and the musical writer Hans Keller, all of whom made important contributions to British musical life after the war. Norbert Meyn, leader of the Royal College of Music’s project on the legacy of émigré musicians from Nazi Europe, will lead a discussion with Andrea Rauter, who is translating the internment diary of her father Ferdinand, and Alison Garnham, biographer of Hans Keller. https://insidersoutsidersfestival.org/free-insiders-outsiders-online-events-programme/?fbclid=IwAR3k PuH8Mf0CJxE-XAFbddXszb1hmV7wYCTMebyp5OPHecfKWBctu_vQ76s kiaull manninagh jiu 08/20 culture vannin YouTube: https://youtu.be/m0XE4OXdaNk Website: https://www.culturevannin.im/watchlisten/videos/manx-guitar-lessons-606045/ The song “Eisht asNish” isthismonth’s Pete Lumb’s guitartutorial from Culture Vannin: published intheManx23/07/2020 Independent Originally culture alongsidethat ofourCeltic neighboursremains thesame-thenandnow. Four decadeson,thelocation andscalemay have changed, buttheoverall missionto celebrate Manx Culture Vannin andinvolving hundreds ofIsland schoolchildren. have evolved into Folk theManx Awards, ofEducation &Children now run by and the Department Collaboration, whichcanviewed onthewebsite Likewise, thisweek. themusicanddance competitions anditsinnovative ofthevisitingacts the quality programming, includingtheworld’s firstBreton-Manx These days, Yn Chruinnaght isbasedinPeel andalthoughsmallerinscale, for ithasbecome known Vannin’s YouTube where there isfootage ofthe1995festival featuring Fennee Ny amongothers. ceilisand lively inthemarquee late-night onPeveril Plot. You canrevisit thoseheadydays onCulture The festival grew year parades onyear through reaching thetown apeakinthe1990swithcolourful thefestivalChruinnaght’– clubat Casa Siciliana,Parliament Street. (Cornwall) Late night revellers (Wales). andDawnwyr were Brynaman invited to attend ‘Cheshaght Yn Fannee, Carswell, andBob Kneale CilAirne (Ireland), Mick andvisitingacts: Woodfidley (England),Bucca Cain, Charles Bwoie starring Grammar Doal, Guard, School Charles inRamsey Bock with aconcert Yuan ceremonyevening Plays Park. inMooragh ofManx andahistorical re-enactment The festival closed and crafts, abonfire, andfireworks barbecue display onthesouthbeach,dance displays and ceilis, an Yn Chruinnaght went ‘inter-Celtic’ competitions, in1978, withseveral arts arts days ofperforming written by Carswell, Bob Giovanelli. basedonaplay andNikolai by Douglas Mona featuringevening concert St John’s schoolchildren andamusicalplay written titled ‘Shennaghys 77’, Hall, aManx Wedding Pageant musicand dancing. hosted Grammar andManx School an Ramsey Despite roaring windsandtorrential display rain, andcrafts the dayat St Paul’s went aheadwithanarts War event in1977by Douglas. Mona 2,itwasinRamsey revived asaone-day origins stretch to 1924.After fallinginto backalmostacentury abeyance withtheoutbreak of World singing: ‘Once Iwas young andnow Iamold’. This could well beappliedto Yn Chruinnaght, whose ‘Eisht asNish’ song, isanoldManx where thesingerreminisces andNow’) abouthisyouth, (‘Then around theworld. programme ofinter-Celtic events rustledupto beenjoyed was quickly live andonlineby audiences workshops andperformances. When thelockdown intheIsland justrecently, was lifted anadditional event altogether, thecommittee calleduponits ‘Celtic cousins’ to create a ‘virtual’ festival ofonline Coronavirus pandemicwhichthreatened to putpaidto thisyear’s event. Butrather thancancel the Yn Chruinnaght hasfaced many challengesover theyears, asthe noneasserious butperhaps festival ofmusicanddance. This week isthe43rd annual Yn 20–26),theIsland’s Chruinnaght Celtic (July Gathering long-running By DrChloe By Woolley, Development Music Manx Officer, Culture Vannin “Eisht as Nish” – Yn Chruinnaght Then andNow
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