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Launch Press Release and December Concert in Glasgow
Duan Nollaig Television Programme
Fiona's Duan Nollaig Concert was recorded by Midas Multimedia as a commission by the Gaelic Media Service and will be broadcast on STV on Wednesday 19th December 2007.
To get the official press release from Midas please click the icon below.
Fiona's Duan Nollaig Concert was recorded by Midas Multimedia as a commission by the Gaelic Media Service and will be broadcast on STV on Wednesday 19th December 2007.
To get the official press release from Midas please click the icon below.
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Things are looking up for the home-grown record industry. Ian Green, who heads up Greentrax, the most important of the Scottish folk independents, said that although high street retailers were suffering in their battle with the supermarkets, online and mail order had rescued niche markets. "It started to pick up by the summer," Green says, "Sales on Amazon went right up; the online sales outlets like MusicScotland. Since then we've been astonishingly busy." And what albums have been the most popular? "Well, Fiona Mackenzie's Christmas double album Duan Nollaig, and the album Just For Gordon, for Gordon Duncan.
Norman Chalmers
Scotland on Sunday (December 2007)
Norman Chalmers
Scotland on Sunday (December 2007)
"Here's the answer to all that crass Christmas commercialism. This astonishingly eclectic double album by the Highland Council's Gaelic Song Fellow and former Mod medallist delves deeply into Gaeldom's religious song tradition. It also creates new ones all of its own.
Among the 35 songs, the famously beautiful Taladh Chriosda is here in heart-stopping vocal harmony, while Leonard Cohen's Halleluiah gets an apocalyptic, wall-of-sound, contemporary arrangement of which Runrig would be proud."
Scotland on Sunday (11 November 2007)
Among the 35 songs, the famously beautiful Taladh Chriosda is here in heart-stopping vocal harmony, while Leonard Cohen's Halleluiah gets an apocalyptic, wall-of-sound, contemporary arrangement of which Runrig would be proud."
Scotland on Sunday (11 November 2007)