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2013 Gaelic Song & Language Week, Grandfather Mountain

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Interested in Scottish Gaelic, the ancient and revered tongue of Scotland that’s still spoken today? Please join us for the 15th Annual Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, July 7-12, 2013, at Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC.

An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach (The American Scottish Gaelic Society, ACGA) brings you three distinguished Gaelic Instructors for a week of educational and fun-filled classes. James Graham and Kirsteen MacDonald are both Scottish Royal National Mòd gold medal winners for song. They will be teaching the intermediate and advanced classes. Dr. Jamie MacDonald, who was instrumental in founding the Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week and the NC Provincial Mòd, will be teaching the beginners’ classes.

This year’s instructors:

James Graham is from Lochinver in the far Northwest corner of Sutherland. In 2004, James won the BBC Scotland Young Traditional Musician of the Year Award – the first male and first Gaelic singer to do so. In 2007, James won the gold medal in Gaelic singing at the Royal National Mòd in Lochaber. James is a talented singer as well as an accomplished piper and he has released two acclaimed solo albums. Here’s a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-UhubHMZw. James works with many artists in the Gaelic music scene, including Mary Ann Kennedy, Fiona Mackenzie, Brian Ó hEadhra, and Rachel Walker.

Kirsteen MacDonald is an award-winning singer and is a well-known BBC Gaelic television broadcaster. She has worked on the children’s show Dè a-nis? and is now BBC’s first ever Gaelic weather reporter. Kirsteen also presents the weekly news review programme, Seachd Là. In addition to teaching language and song, Kirsteen will also be covering the week’s activities and the Highland Games for the BBC.
Here’s a sample of Kirsteen’s music: http://www.musicinscotland.com/acatalog/MP3_Kirsteen_MacDonald_CDs.html.

North Carolina’s own Dr. Jamie MacDonald will be teaching the beginners’ classes this year. Jamie holds a Ph.D. in Scottish Studies from the University of Edinburgh and a DipHE in Gaelic and Related Studies from Sabhal Mòr Ostaig in the Isle of Skye. Jamie has taught Gaelic language and song in the U.S. and Scotland, and was Professor of Celtic Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada.

Gaelic song and language classes will range from absolute beginners to advanced, so everyone can join in the fun. Every afternoon there will be additional activities, such as special topic workshops and hikes along the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountain Trails.

For those who choose to stay on for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games the following weekend, there will be plenty of Gaelic heard at the Gaelic Tent, including the Gaelic sing-alongs. The 17th Annual North Carolina Provincial Gaelic Mòd will be held Saturday afternoon. The Mod is a Gaelic song competition that is open for anyone who wishes to take part.

More detailed information, including cost and registration form, is available at http://www.acgamerica.org/events/grandfather-mountain/.

To find out more about the Gaelic Week, you can contact Dr. Jamie MacDonald at 902-386-2072 or John Grimaldi at 917-756-3643. You may also contact us by email at gaelteach@gmail.com or iainmartainn@aol.com

Please join us!
A’ cumail na Gàidhlig Beò – Keeping Gaelic Alive!


U.S. National Mòd Is Coming!

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The Mòd is coming!

The 26th annual Mòd is just around the corner – September 21, at the Ligonier Highland Games, near Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. A great time to listen to native Gaelic speakers, fluent learners, and adventurous newcomers tackling Gaelic songs, stories and poems in competition and at cèilidhs. A great time to soak up as much Gaelic as you can in a friendly, relaxed environment. A great time to be part of a Gaelic community – without the cost of a roundtrip airfare to Scotland!

Both Gold Medalists from Scotland’s Royal National Mòd will be attending our event. This year, we will have the honor to welcome the female and male medalists, Eilidh Davies and Calum MacLeoid, brought to us courtesy of The Gaelic Society An Comunn Gaidhealach, in Scotland.

We will be having Catrìona Parsons from Cape Breton back as our adjudicator this year. Catrìona has been our adjudicator and a true friend of our Mòd competition since its inception, having been instrumental in creating the Mòd 26 years ago.  We welcome the opportunity to have her with us again this year.

If you have ever wanted to see the Mòd or meet with native speakers, to compete and try out your Gaelic, or just to attend the games and take in the Mòd experience, sign up!  The forms to make your reservations are here: http://usmod.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/reserve-your-place-at-the-2013-u-s-national-mod/

The form itself is: http://usmod.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/us-mod-2013-packet-2.pdf

We do ask that you send in your forms by September 14 so that we can get a good head count. We hope to also get a guest to come from Scotland or Cape Breton to do a special program – stay tuned!

We welcome donations to support our efforts to contiue holding Mòd Naiseanta Aimeiragaidh. Donations are tax-deductible in the United States as allowed by law. There is a donation page on the form mentioned above, and you can also donate on the AGCA website.

The Mòd Committee hope you will be able to join us in Ligonier, or if not, that you will consider making a donation.

Leis gach deagh dhùrachd,

Comataidh a’ Mhòid
Mòd Naiseanta Aimearagaidh 2013

2014 Gaelic Song & Language Week, Grandfather Mountain

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Interested in Scottish Gaelic, the ancient and revered tongue of Scotland that’s spoken and  sung today? Please join us for the 16th Annual Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, July 6-11, 2014, at Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC.

An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach (The American Scottish Gaelic Society, ACGA) brings you three distinguished Gaelic Instructors for a week of educational and fun-filled classes at Beinn Seanair (Grandfather Mountain, in Gaelic). Christine Primrose is a Scottish Royal National Mòd gold medal winner for Gaelic song. Angus MacLeod is a revered story-teller and has worked in short Gaelic films. They will be teaching the intermediate and advanced classes. Nicholas (Neacal) Freer, a Gaelic learner and experienced teacher, will conduct the beginners’ classes.

 

Christine Primrose is a native of Carloway, Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. As part of growing up in a traditional Gaelic community, she began singing at a young age. Christine is a Gold Medal winner for Gaelic singing at the Scottish Royal National Mòd for 1974 and her recent accolades include “Gaelic Singer of the Year” at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards in 2009. Her tours have taken her worldwide, including Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, taking her distinctive voice and the Gaelic language to a wide audience. She is also in demand as a tutor: she currently tutors on the (BA) Gaelic and Traditional Music Course at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig. We are delighted to have her join us at Beinn Seanair.

Here’s a fun clip of Christine in “Kitchen Music”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkpvDIXovt8 where she not only makes the meal, but sings for it, too!

Another clip of Christine performing Mo Cheist Am Fear Ban’ / My Darling Is the Fair One http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ne4UIEWjXE&list=PL280DBF3DE164A29F

Here’s an interesting article about Christine: http://www.folkmusic.net/htmfiles/inart663.htm

 

Angus MacLeod Photo

Angus MacLeod is a Gaelic speaker, singer, storyteller, artist, writer and actor. He was born to Gaelic speaking parents in a Cape Breton Gaidhealtachd. He learned  Gaelic on his own through song and by speaking with local elders, augmented by classes at various institutions in Nova Scotia. Angus began teaching in 1998. Since then he has taught Gaelic language and song at the Gaelic College of Arts and Crafts, St.Francis Xavier University, and Cape Breton University and at many venues throughout Canada and the U.S. Along with being a performer for Celtic Colours Festival for many years, Angus has appeared as an actor in three Gaelic short films. Angus was the first instructor in North America to use the Total Immersion Plus methodology for teaching Gaelic. He is presently Vice-President of, and a teacher with, the Atlantic Gaelic Academy as well as teaching in-person classes in Cape Breton, online classes as a private instructor and writing a bi-weekly Gaelic / English blog for Celticheart.ca.

He is a renowned story-teller and also an accomplished Gaelic singer who conducts Gaelic song workshops in Nova Scotia. We offer him the heartiest of welcomes to Beinn Seanair.

Click here to see Angus in the first Gaelic language short film made in North America, Faire Chaluim MhicLeoid / The Wake of Calum MacLeod  http://vimeo.com/7221607

Here’s Angus in a excerpt from the 2012 Gaelic rendition of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart / An Cridhe Cabaireach  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqU51d_ZTlA

 

 Nick Freer Photo

Nicholas (Neacal) Freer has been a student of Gaelic since 1988 and began teaching beginner and intermediate level students in 1995. A keen student himself, Neacal has attended the Gaelic College in St. Ann’s (Nova Scotia), Sabhal Mor Ostaig (Skye), as well as studying with Morag Craig at Cothrom Na Feinne. He served as US National Gaelic Mòd Chair from 2004 to 2010. He has won multiple gold medals in story-telling and been interviewed on Reidio nan Gaidheal. Several of Neacal’s students have gone on to compete at the Scottish Royal National Mòd and in the US National Mòd. Known as an energetic teacher who adds humor and merriment to the learning experience, we are pleased to have Neacal join us this summer.

 

Please join us for this wonderful week of Gaelic fun and learning! We hope to see you there!

If you can help us promote this great event, please contact John Grimaldi at iainmartainn at aol.com.

Registration is now open. Please visit http://www.acgamerica.org/events/grandfather-mountain/info to register.

The 2014 U.S. National Mòd Is Coming!

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The Mòd is coming!

The 27th annual Mòd is just around the corner – September 19, at the Ligonier Highland Games, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A great time to listen to native Gaelic speakers, fluent learners, and adventurous newcomers tackling Gaelic songs, stories and poems in competition and at cèilidhs. A great time to soak up as much Gaelic as you can in a friendly, relaxed environment. A great time to be part of a Gaelic community – without the cost of a roundtrip airfare to Scotland!

Both Gold Medalists from Scotland’s Royal National Mòd will be attending our event. This year, we will have the honor to welcome the female and male medalists, Eilidh Munro and Robert Robertson, brought to us courtesy of The Gaelic Society An Comunn Gaidhealach, in Scotland.

We will be having Lewis Mackinnon from Cape Breton as our adjudicator this year. This will be a first here for Lewis as our adjudicator, and it will be a unique opportunity to meet and speak with the Office of Gaelic Affairs’ Executive Director, let alone to receive an adjudication from an accomplished Gael such as he! We welcome the opportunity to have him with us this year.

If you have ever wanted to see the Mòd or meet with native speakers, to compete and try out your Gaelic, or just to attend the games and take in the Mòd experience, sign up! Go to http://usmod.wordpress.com/mod-bulletin-an-cuairtear-ceolmhor/ and you’ll see what you need to do! You can direct any questions to macaoidh88@gmail.com.

We do ask that you send in your forms by September 14 so that we can get a good head count.

We welcome donations to support our efforts to continue holding Mòd Naiseanta Aimeiragaidh. Donations are tax-deductible in the United States as allowed by law. There is a donation page on the form mentioned above, and you can also donate on the AGCA website.

The Mòd Committee hope you will be able to join us in Ligonier, or if not, that you will consider making a donation.

Leis gach deagh dhùrachd,

Comataidh a’ Mhòid
Mòd Naiseanta Aimearagaidh 2014

“One of the best ever”– The US National Mòd for 2014

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The 27th US National Mòd was held in the beautiful hills of western Pennsylvania, with new faces as well as friends that have come back year after year.

Our adjudicator this year: Lewis (Lodaidh) MacKinnon, who brought his own unique approach and some new ideas to the role.  The result?  Competitors and spectators alike expressed enthusiasm for his supportive and educational perspective.

We welcomed again the Royal Mòd Gold Medalists: from 2013, Eilidh Munro and Robert Robertson.  They were as happy to be here in the festivities as we were to have them!

Congratulations to Debby Biro for winning the US Mòd’s highest awards – the S.C.O.T.S shield from the Twin States for highest scores in the Prescribed category, and for the Marietta MacLeod award for highest overall scores!

For more pictures and news of the Mòd, visit the Mòd and ACGA Facebook pages!

Mark Your Calendars for GS&LW 2015

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July 5th – 10th 2015

Join us for the 17th Annual Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week
Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk NC.
presented by An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach / The American Scottish Gaelic Society

We are pleased to have Gillebrìde MacMillan from South Uist return to the Gaelic Song and Language Week in 2015. After completing a degree in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow and a Masters Degree from the University of the Highlands and Islands, Gillebrìde now works in the Celtic and Gaelic Department at University of Glasgow. He is a Gaelic translator, a published writer, and has worked on the Tobar an Dualchais archiving project. He regularly sings and teaches Gaelic song at festivals and cèilidhs in Scotland, Europe and the USA. You may have seen Gillebrìde in episode 3 of the Outlander television series as “Gwyllyn the Bard”. Find out more on YouTube, on his website: http://www.gillebride.com/ and on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gillebride.

Also joining us is Joy Dunlop. Gaelic Singer of the Year in 2010 & 2011, she has won both the coveted Royal National Mòd Gold Medal and the Oban Times Gold Medal. An Argyll native, fluent Gaelic speaker and teacher, Joy presents programs on BBC ALBA and makes frequent appearances on Radio nan Gàidheal. She is also an award winning Scottish step-dancer and Traditional Inter-Celtic Dance Champion. Find out more about Joy via YouTube, on Twitter: https://twitter.com/joydunlop and from her website: http://www.joydunlop.com/. We are delighted to welcome Joy to Grandfather Mountain for the first time.

More information about the 2015 Gaelic Song & Language Week coming soon!
Grandfather Mountain Song and Language Week
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1463155417230179/
An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach http://www.acgamerica.org
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Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week Announces Third Teacher for 2015

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We heartily welcome Kathleen Reddy to the Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week 2015. A Nova Scotia native, Kathleen studied and taught multiple levels of Gaelic on both sides of the Atlantic. She’s taught secondary school, college, and immersion courses to learners and native speakers. Kathleen received her BA in English with a Celtic Studies subsidiary (St. Francis Xavier University), holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow), and a Diploma of Higher Education in Gaelic and Related Studies (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye). She’s worked for the Nova Scotia Office of Gaelic Affairs and currently teaches at St. Francis Xavier University: http://sites.stfx.ca/celtic_studies/people. More information can be found on http://www.gaeliccollege.edu/study-with-us/faculty/kathleen-reddy/. She’ll be joining Joy Dunlop and Gillebrìde MacMillan, completing our roster of teachers for 2015.

Kathleen Reddy

For more information about Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, click here.

GFM Gaelic Song & Language Week Open

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Registration is now open for the 2015 Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week!

You may now register either online (http://www.acgamerica.org/events/grandfather-mountain/2015-gfm-reg-email/) or by mail (http://www.acgamerica.org/events/grandfather-mountain/2015-gfm-reg-mail/).

We have a wonderful lineup of instructors – coming to us from Scotland and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, from the world of “Outlander” and the present-day Gaelic-speaking communities of America and Alba (the Gaelic name for Scotland)!

Gillebrìde MacMillan is from the island of South Uist and plays the role of Gwillin the Bard in the Outlander program on Starz. He is well known as a singer, teacher and translator.

Photo of Gillebride MacMillan

Joy Dunlop is an award-winning singer and an award-winning step dancer as well! This will be her first time at Grandfather Mountain, but some of you may have met her several years ago at the US National Mòd.

Photo of Joy Dunlop

Kathleen Reddy hails from Nova Scotia and has studied and taught Gaelic on both sides of the Atlantic. She is of course a singer as well. We are delighted that she is joining us this year!

Photo of Kathleen Reddy

For more information about our teachers and about the Gaelic Song and Language Week, please go to: http://www.acgamerica.org/events/grandfather-mountain/info/

It will be a wonderful week! We hope you will join us – and stay on for the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games! There will be Gaelic at Donald’s Gaelic Tent and at the NC Regional Mòd, and a fun open Gaelic song competition (http://www.gmhg.org/gaelicmod.htm). Gillebrìde and Joy will be the adjudicators for this year’s Mòd. Come on, give us a song in Gaelic!


The Mòd is coming!

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The 28th annual Mòd is just around the corner – September 26, at the Ligonier Highland Games, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A great time to listen to native Gaelic speakers, fluent learners, and adventurous newcomers tackling Gaelic songs, stories and poems in competition and at cèilidhs. A great time to soak up as much Gaelic as you can in a friendly, relaxed environment. A great time to be part of a Gaelic community – without the cost of a roundtrip airfare to Scotland!

Both Gold Medalists from Scotland’s Royal National Mòd will be attending our event. This year, we will have the honor to welcome the female and male medalists, Eilidh Cormack and Angus MacLeod, brought to us courtesy of The Gaelic Society An Comunn Gaidhealach, in Scotland.

We will be having Gillebrìde Mac’Illemhaoil from Scotland as our adjudicator this year. This will be a first here for Gillebrìde as our adjudicator, and it will be a unique opportunity to meet and speak with the this famous Gael, let alone to receive an adjudication from an accomplished singer and adjudicator such as he! We welcome the opportunity to have him with us this year.

If you have ever wanted to see the Mòd or meet with native speakers, to compete and try out your Gaelic, or just to attend the games and take in the Mòd experience, sign up! Go to https://usmod.wordpress.com/2015-u-s-mod-registration/ and you’ll see what you need to do! You can direct any questions to macaoidh88@gmail.com.

We do ask that you send in your forms by September 14 so that we can get a good head count.

We welcome donations to support our efforts to continue holding Mòd Naiseanta Aimeiragaidh. Donations are tax-deductible in the United States as allowed by law. There is a donation page on the form mentioned above, and you can also donate on the AGCA website at http://payments.acgamerica.org.

The Mòd Committee hope you will be able to join us in Ligonier, or if not, that you will consider making a donation.

Leis gach deagh dhùrachd,

Comataidh a’ Mhòid
Mòd Naiseanta Aimearagaidh 2015

Mòd 2015 – Mòr, math, misneachail!

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Women’s 2015 Gold Medallist Connie Smith

Men’s 2015 Gold Medallist Tom Terry

Our 2015 Mòd is now over, and, as our title says, it was big, good, and encouraging!  We had as many competitors over the course of two days as we’ve ever had (Mòr),  the competitions were at an excellent level of skill (Math), and our adjudicator, Gillebrìde MacIlleMhaoil, left all of us with advice, encouragement, and a renewed dedication to the language and song of Scottish Gaelic (Misneachail)!

This year, in addition to Gillebrìde, we welcomed 2014 Gold Medalists Angus MacLeod and Eilidh Cormack, who gave us plenty of songs, great company, and a real appreciation of the beauty of the Gaelic language and culture we love and pursue.  We look forward to tuning in to the Royal National Mod in Scotland in just a few weeks!

Then, we’ll start again on next year’s Mòd season – check out our web page (http://usmod.wordpress.com) and look to us on Facebook for more pictures and video! https://www.facebook.com/US-National-M%C3%B2d-M%C3%B2d-Naiseanta-Aimeireagaidh-153501591336693/timeline/

Here are the results of the 2015 US National Mòd:

Friday, September 25:

Storytelling:

1. Liam Cassidy
2. Cathleen Mackay
3. John Grimaldi

Poetry:

1. Barbara Lynn Rice

Sight Reading:

1. Cheryl Mitchell
2. Tied, Liam Cassidy and Connie Smith
3. Cathleen MacKay

Saturday, September 26:

Open song category:

1. Sharon McWhorter
2. Carol Kappus
3. John Grimaldi

Prescribed song:

Men

1. Tom Terry
2. Liam O Caiside
3. Ed Bradshaw

Women

1. Anne Alexander
2. Carol Kappus
3. Connie Smith

Work song:

1. Connie Smith
2. Liam O Caiside
3. Tom Terry

Puirt:

1. Ed Bradshaw
2. Carol Kappus
3. Anne Alexander

Choir:

1. Còisir Ghàidhlig Ameireagaidh

 Unison/harmonized singing:

1. Sharon McWhorter  & Lindy Lincicom
2. Anne Alexander & Ron Hazelett
3. Barbara Lynn Rice & John Grimaldi

Final song Results:

Men’s:

1. Tom Terry
2. Liam O Caiside
3. Ed Bradshaw

Women’s:

1. Connie Smith
2. Carol Kappus
3. Anne Alexander
4. Lindy Lincicome

Overall Mòd Gold Medal results:

Men’s:

1. Tom Terry
2. Liam O Caiside
3. Ed Bradshaw

Women’s:

1. Connie Smith
2. Carol Kappus
3. Anne Alexander
4. Lindy Lincicome

Awards:

Searrag Ghlainne nam Bàird (Edinburgh Crystal Decanter). Presented by Mòd co-founder Donald F. MacDonald to the winner of the competition in bàrdachd recitation at the Mòd.

Barbara Lynn Rice

Duais Dhaibhidh Mhic Risnidh (David MacRitchie Award). Presented for best traditional story in Gaelic.

Liam Cassidy

Duais Iain Mhic Mhurchaidh (John MacRae Award). Presented for best original poem submitted to the Mòd.

Barbara Lynn Rice

Duais Leòdhais agus na Hearadh (Lewis and Harris Award). Presented for best performance of a Lewis or Harris song (in memory of Donnie MacLean).

John Grimaldi

MacComb Shield for the Men’s prescribed highest score

Tom Terry

SCOTS Shield for Women’s prescribed song highest score

Anne Alexander

Herbert P. MacNeal Memorial Quaich. Presented by Clan MacNeil Society to highest scoring male solo singer (Gold Medal).

Tom Terry

Marietta MacLeod Memorial Quaich. Presented by Donald F. MacDonald to the highest scoring woman solo singer (Gold Medal).

Connie Smith

Get ready for Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week 2016!

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When? July 3rd through July 8th, 2016 Where? Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC. What? From Sunday to Friday the sounds of Gaelic, the first language of the Scots, will resound in the mountains of North Carolina. Songs, stories, jokes, and fun galore! Who? You! Absolute beginners to fluent speakers are welcome. Our experienced teachers […]

Grandfather Mountain GS&LW 2016 – Our First Instructor.

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Our first instructor for the Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week 2016 (July 3 – 8) will be Catrìona Parsons! A native Gaelic speaker born in the Isle of Lewis, and a graduate of Edinburgh University, Scotland, Catrìona has been involved in the teaching of Gaelic language and song in North America for many years. […]

Grandfather Mountain GS&LW 2016 – Our Second Instructor.

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We are pleased to announce our second instructor for the Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week, 2016 (July 3 – 8, 2016), Joanne MacIntyre. Joanne hails from Mabou Coal Mines, Inverness County, where she was raised in the rich culture of Gaelic language, music, and dance. Since her teen years in Cape Breton, she […]

Grandfather Mountain GS&LW 2016 – Our Third Instructor.

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We are very happy to announce our third teacher for the 2016 Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week – Màiri Macinnes! Màiri is one of the most accomplished singers performing in the Gaelic language in Scotland today. The beauty and purity of her voice has made her compelling listening for those interested in Gaelic […]

Registration for Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song & Language Week is now open!

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Registration is now open for the 2016 Grandfather Mountain Gaelic Song and Language Week in Banner Elk NC, taking place Sunday July 3 to Friday July 8, 2016. Please plan to also join us as well, at the North Carolina Provincial Mòd, Saturday July 9, at the Grandfather Mountain Highland Games in nearby Linville NC. […]

ACGA Guth na Gàidheal and Là na Gàidhlig.

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Là na Gàidhlig is this Thursday, April 21st. ACGA’s Rèidio Guth nan Gàidheal will be bringing you TWO new programs especially for Là na Gàidhlig… Michael Mackay brings you a special edition of “An Saoghal Againne”, in which he talks to Là na Gàidhlig organizer, Jamie Wallace about the event, its history and its aims, […]

U.S. National Mòd Registration Now Open!

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Gaelic Singer, Author Anne Lorne Gillies to Adjudicate 29th U.S. Gaelic Mòd.   Registration is now open for the 29th U.S. National Mòd, our three-day competition in Scottish Gaelic singing, storytelling and poetry taking place September 23 – 25 in Ligonier, Pennsylvania. This will be an exciting Mòd. For the first time, Anne Lorne Gillies, […]

Results from the 29th U.S. National Mòd.

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Overall results for the 29th US Mòd Friday, September 23: Storytelling: 1. Cathleen Mackay (Audit) Liam Cassidy Poetry: 1. Barbara Lynn Rice 2. Mary Swope Sight Reading: 1. Liam Cassidy 2. Anne Alexander 3. (Tied), Barbara Lynn Rice and Mary Swope   Saturday, September 24: Open song category: 1. Sharon McWhorter 2. Carol Kappus 3. […]

Report from 29th U.S. National Mòd

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The US Mòd was held on the last weekend of September, and we welcomed Anne Lorn Gillies, our adjudicator, as well as the Mòd gold medalists, DI Brown and Catriona MacNeil.  We had competitions in poetry, storytelling, unison singing, choir, and our biggest competition, the US Gold Medal. About the choir: a local choir has […]

30th US Mòd to Feature First ACGA Fèis

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This year will be the 30th Anniversary of the U.S. National Mòd or Mòd Naiseanta Aimeireagaidh, an event born in Alexandria, Virginia in 1988, when An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach launched what was then called Mòd Virginia at the Virginia Scottish Games. The event will take place over four days this year, from the evening of […]
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