The Creative Place Award provided funding to support several projects in Moniaive, including Kate Howard’s dream of a Cairn Valley Song Cycle.
This venture commissioned new material to illustrate what our landscape means to the community, what community means to us and how changes in a rural community affect us. The chosen composers also had to reflect on migrations of communities through time, especially the present Syrian Refugee crisis, as well as remembering the 18th and 19th centuries when people were cleared from large swathes of Scotland.
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Saturé
Words and Music: Lucy Harper
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Honey and Salt
Words: Norman McCaig
Music: Kate Thomas
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Red Rock of Home
Words and Music: Helen Chadwick
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What I Love
Words: Alice Oswald
Music: Hugh Nankivell
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Lament for William Smith
Music: Stuart McPherson
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Hill and Sky
Words: Roddy McFairley and Neil Thompson
Music: Melanie Thorne
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Stonesong
Words and Music: Penny Stone
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Moniaive
Words: Kimaya Diggs
Music: Megan Henderson
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Tottie and Mr Plantagenet
Words and Music: Ali Burns (inspired by Rumer Godden)
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Ae Spark O’ Nature’s Fire
Music: Wendy Stewart
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May the Road
Words: Carmina Gaedelica, Trad, Wendy Stewart
Gaelic Translation: Angus Mcmillan
Music: Wendy Stewart
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Cairn Chorus
Words: Peter Roberts inspired by Derek Mahon
Music: Kate Howard
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Yal Asmar Ellon
Traditional Syrian song arr. by Edward Torikian
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