The Highland Sessions

tv show

poster for The Highland Sessions

6 total episodes

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1 seasons

First Aired November 19, 2010

Overview

Series celebrating the historical and contemporary links between Scottish and Irish Gaelic song by bringing together top exponents of both traditions to sing and play with no audience except themselves, using a house band of their peers.

Episode 4 poster unavailable

Episode 4

Season 1 - Episode 4 - 1h 30m

Air Date

December 10, 2010

Overview

The episode opens with Da Mihi Manum (Give Me Your Hand), performed by Steve Cooney and Kathleen MacInnes. Rona Lightfoot performs canntaireachd, an oral music form traditionally used to teach and pass on pipe tunes that Rona has made her own, elevating it to a kind of Gaelic scat singing.