manx celtic music and dance

Manx music seminar day - a success!

02 Apr 2014

Around twenty people attended the Manx music seminar day held in the Guild Room in Peel on 16 March.
The afternoon of talks focussed on bringing recent research within universities to the wider population.
Stephen Miller opened with a fascinating account of the Clague Collection, charting its development and reception. Ruth Keggin shared some of her BA research into proposed historical links between Manx and Norwegian music, looking at liturgical ‘sequences’. Laura Rowles talked about how important education is to the development of Manx fiddlers and fiddle styles and Cinzia Yates got out her sandals and sticks and waved them at the scandals woven into Mylecharane, talking about the myths of a national air and why it doesn’t matter!
It is anticipated that the talks be published in some form in the not too distant future - watch this space!
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