World Music: Mary Jane Lamond, "The Stepping Song"
(Canada) Mary Jane Lamond is a fifth-generation Canadian, but her grandparents who lived on Cape Breton, (an island off the coast of Nova Scotia) were Gaellic speakers. Lamond grew up listening to them speak the language and hearing the traditional songs. Cape Breton is somewhat removed from Nova Scotia, so much of the Gaelic culture has been preserved, as if in amber. Lamond has been presenting this culture to audiences internationally, sometimes a capella and stripped back to it roots, and sometimes with highly stylized contemporary settings. "The Stepping Song" is a reel, and the video, while fanciful - and not exactly the place one would choose to cut a caper - captures the excitement of Celtic dance.
(Canada) Mary Jane Lamond is a fifth-generation Canadian, but her grandparents who lived on Cape Breton, (an island off the coast of Nova Scotia) were Gaellic speakers. Lamond grew up listening to them speak the language and hearing the traditional songs. Cape Breton is somewhat removed from Nova Scotia, so much of the Gaelic culture has been preserved, as if in amber. Lamond has been presenting this culture to audiences internationally, sometimes a capella and stripped back to it roots, and sometimes with highly stylized contemporary settings. "The Stepping Song" is a reel, and the video, while fanciful - and not exactly the place one would choose to cut a caper - captures the excitement of Celtic dance.
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World Music: Mary Jane Lamond, "The Stepping Song"
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