The Carrying Stream with Songwriter Mary Ann Kennedy

Join Gaelic language singer-songwriter Mary Ann Kennedy in conversation with Alison Lang of Gaelic Books Council.Mary Ann Kennedy is composer of 'Cluaidh (Clyde - A River Recovery).

She was voted Gaelic singer of the year at the 2019 Scots Trad Music Awards and earned a Saltire Award for her choral project, 'Lasair Dhè'.

Mary Ann describes music as ‘the carrying stream, and that stream takes different twists and turns according to each generation passing on to the next.

A river never stops still.

It gathers strength, it gathers from other sources as other little tributaries come in and join it, and so it’s constantly changing.’Alison Lang is Director of the Gaelic books Council.

Alison is also a novelist, dramatist and editor writing principally in Scottish Gaelic.

She has worked for Gaelic broadcaster MG ALBA, for the National Theatre of Scotland and as an official reporter at the Scottish Parliament.

Her first collection of short fiction, Cainnt na Caileige Caillte, was shortlisted for the Saltire Society first book of the year award.Dual Gaelic/English language event.

Simultaneous translation by Coinneach Combe (40 translation headphones courtesy of Gaelic Books Council).This event is in association with the Gaelic Books Council.