There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter where I am. If I hear it, it just brings me back to my youth in Staffin. It brings me back to happy events … and very ...
When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. "They really, ...
Yale Professor Willie Ruff, jazz musician and scholar, brought together three congregations "separated by custom and law," but united in belief and their devotion to a form of psalm singing that spans ...
In times of peril, writes a Jewish studies scholar, Jews must learn to hope in a minor key. This story was originally published on My Jewish Learning. (JTA) — On Saturday morning, most of the ...
After a year in hiatus, reissues label Arc Light Editions return with an album of Gaelic psalm singing from the Hebrides, released for the first time on vinyl. You can listen to Psalm 79 3-4 ("They ...
Frances Wilkins receives funding from The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the British Academy. There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter ...