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🌙🌊Cronan na Maighdinn-Mhara / The Mermaid’s Croon🐚 In this Hebridean folksong, a Mermaid sings a lullaby for her dark-eyed daughter, and longs for her human lover who is far away on the shore. This wild melody embodies the untamable waves of the sea, the smooth swimming of the seal, the gull lifting off from the sea to the air… Everything that is beautiful and full of longing. 🌊My thanks to Aya Bourseaux who introduced me to this song a few months ago. I was so happy to get a message from her with a link to a recording of a song that felt almost impossibly beautiful to me on that first listen. I love learning about songs from people, rather than from my usual deep dives into the internet and deep cut recordings; so if you know of any songs you think I would enjoy, please pass them on! 🐚This song was collected and published in a book of Hebridean folk songs compiled Margory Kennedy-Fraser in 1909. This collection is available to all online, via IMSLP- seach “Songs of the Hebrides.” Kennedy-Fraser dedicated this collection to the women of the Hebrides who created, sang, and passed these precious songs on to her, and to us. 🌊The Hebrides are a chain of islands off the west coast of Scotland. Kennedy-Fraser transcribed “Mermaid’s Croon” from the singing of Penny O’Henley who lived on the island South Uist, and who told her that the lyrics came from another island called Eigg, which is much closer to shore, perhaps with a distant view of the bay where the mermaid’s human lover waits for her, night after night after night after night... 🌙This is my first time singing in the beautiful Scots Gaelic language, and I’m indebted to the online bilingual dictionary Faclair.com, which includes phonetic transcriptions for all the words in its database; as well as to a gorgeous recording sung by Joanne McIver, which I also referenced for pronunciation help. I hope I did alright, and as always, I look forward to improving with time✨ #hebrides #scotsgaelic #gaelic #mermaid #lullaby #harp #folkmusic #folksong #traditionalmusic

🌙🌊Cronan na Maighdinn-Mhara / The Mermaid’s Croon🐚 In this Hebridean folksong, a Mermaid sings a lullaby for her dark-eyed daughter, and longs for her human lover who is far away on the shore. This wild melody embodies the untamable waves of the sea, the smooth swimming of the seal, the gull lifting off from the sea to the air… Everything that is beautiful and full of longing. 🌊My thanks to Aya Bourseaux who introduced me to this song a few months ago. I was so happy to get a message from her with a link to a recording of a song that felt almost impossibly beautiful to me on that first listen. I love learning about songs from people, rather than from my usual deep dives into the internet and deep cut recordings; so if you know of any songs you think I would enjoy, please pass them on! 🐚This song was collected and published in a book of Hebridean folk songs compiled Margory Kennedy-Fraser in 1909. This collection is available to all online, via IMSLP- seach “Songs of the Hebrides.” Kennedy-Fraser dedicated this collection to the women of the Hebrides who created, sang, and passed these precious songs on to her, and to us. 🌊The Hebrides are a chain of islands off the west coast of Scotland. Kennedy-Fraser transcribed “Mermaid’s Croon” from the singing of Penny O’Henley who lived on the island South Uist, and who told her that the lyrics came from another island called Eigg, which is much closer to shore, perhaps with a distant view of the bay where the mermaid’s human lover waits for her, night after night after night after night... 🌙This is my first time singing in the beautiful Scots Gaelic language, and I’m indebted to the online bilingual dictionary Faclair.com, which includes phonetic transcriptions for all the words in its database; as well as to a gorgeous recording sung by Joanne McIver, which I also referenced for pronunciation help. I hope I did alright, and as always, I look forward to improving with time✨ #hebrides #scotsgaelic #gaelic #mermaid #lullaby #harp #folkmusic #folksong #traditionalmusic

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