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Waulking songs (Scottish Gaelic: Òrain Luaidh) are Scottish folk songs, traditionally sung in the Gaelic language by women while fulling (waulking) cloth. This practice involved a group of women, who traditionally prepared cloth, rhythmically beating newly woven tweed or tartan cloth against a table or similar surface to lightly felt it and ...
Scotswomen walking (fulling) woollen cloth, singing a waulking song, 1772 (engraving made by Thomas Pennant on one of his tours). Fulling, also known as tucking or walking (Scots: waukin, hence often spelt waulking in Scottish English), is a step in woollen clothmaking which involves the cleansing of woven cloth (particularly wool) to eliminate oils, dirt, and other impurities, and to make it ...
Long Èireannach (Irish Ship) is a well known song in the Scottish Gaelic tradition known as Orain Luaidh, or waulking song, a type of work song that is sung by the women when fulling cloth. In Long Èireannach the sweetheart of each girl present is named in turn by the singers as the song proceeds, the whole of the workers taking up the chorus.
Capercaillie are a Scottish folk band, founded in 1984 by Donald Shaw and led by Karen Matheson, and which performs traditional Gaelic and contemporary songs in English. [1] The group adapts traditional Gaelic music and traditional lyrics with modern production techniques and instruments such as electric guitar and bass guitar, though rarely ...
Annie Johnston (10 February 1886 - 6 March 1963) was a Gaelic folklorist who contributed a variety of songs and stories from her native Barra to song collections and scholarly works in the early and mid-20th century. [1]
The song was created on the ITV soap opera Emmerdale, where three of the show's actors—Steve Halliwell, Billy Hartman, and Alun Lewis—attempt to cash in on the line dancing trend that was prominent in the United Kingdom at the time by performing the song as their characters on the programme.
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"S' Och A' Dhomhnaill Òig Ghaolaich (Waulking Song)" "The Strathspey Set" "Ailein Duinn Nach Till Thu An Taobh-Seo" "The Jura Wedding Reels" "At the Heart of It All" "Abu Chuibhl' (Spinning Song)" "The Marches" "Nighean Dubh Nighean Donn" "Fainne An Dochais (Ring of Hope)" "Cal's Jigs" "Lament for John 'Garve' MacLeod of Raasay"