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We are very happy to announce that Robbie MacLeod with his song Cunha and Neil Thomson and his song Snawdraps are joint winners in Hands Up for Trad’s\u00a0N\u00f2s \u00d9r competition. The judges were very excited by the quality of songs entered and\u00a0decided to have two winners – one in Scots and one in Gaelic. Robbie is now heading into the studio to record his son and Neil’s is already recorded.<\/p>\n
More information about the songs below.<\/p>\n
Snawdraps<\/strong> written by Neil Thomson and Gerry Cambridge<\/em> The words of the song were written by Poet Gerry Cambridge and feature in his book of Scottish Nature in poems, photographs and prose ‘Nothing but Heather!’. Lyrics: Cunha<\/strong>\u00a0written\u00a0by Robbie MacLeod<\/em> Robbie Andrew MacLeod is an indie-folk songwriter from the Highlands. He learned Gaelic growing up and now writes songs in both Gaelic and English. One of his songs, ‘Tamhasg’, got covered by M\u00e0nran on their second album, ‘The Test’.<\/p>\n Lyrics Ach cha do shiubhail gaisgeach \u00f2 th\u00f9s Ach uaireannan, bidh thu nad aonar H\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, ‘S d\u00f2cha nach eil n\u00e8amh agad no iutharna, Is uaireannan, bidh thu nad aonar H\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, Ach uaireannan, bidh thu nad aonar H\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, We are very happy to announce that Robbie MacLeod with his song Cunha and Neil Thomson and his song Snawdraps are joint winners in Hands Up for Trad’s\u00a0N\u00f2s \u00d9r competition. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured-news","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/files\/2016\/06\/N\u00f2s\u00d9r_purple.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4569,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions\/4569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/scotlandsings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis song celebrates the natural charm of the Snowdrop flower. Translations of the scots words within the song are as follows:
\nblintert<\/em>: blown by boisterous gusty wind
\ndowless<\/em>: feeble, lacking instrength or energy
\nyirdit<\/em>: buried
\nskinklin<\/em>: sparkling
\nbauchle<\/em>: untidy or clumsy person
\nsmeddum<\/em>: spirit, energy, drive
\nsin<\/em>: sun<\/p>\n
\nFor more information about Gerry’s work see www.gerrycambridge.com<\/a>
\nSnawdraps will be included on the rerelease of \u2018Shore Crab\u2019 this September\u00a0which features eight recordings of Gerry\u2019s poems set to music by Neil. More info at\u00a0www.neilthomson.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe blintert snawdrap can manage wi\u2019oot
\nthae dowless flooers yirdit wi doot;
\nfir it can match Orion\u2019s pooers
\nricht throu the skinklin wee sma oors;
\nsae up it cams, an mebbe gies
\nthae laggard bauchles, bi degrees,
\nsmeddum frae shame ti cam up tae
\nintil the air an the sin\u2019s ray;
\nbut it\u2019s the yin that sterts the spring.
\nIt sets the sin abune aa thing.<\/p>\n
\n‘Cumha’ is the Gaelic for a lament, and the song is about the loss of those close to you and the strength we find in the folks around us when things are hard.<\/p>\n
\n\u00d2ran nach cluinneadh gu br\u00e0th
\nAch fonn nach leigeas tu \u00e0s
\nCuimhneachan t\u00f9rsach a-nis –
\nSheachnadh tu na tha ri teachd
\nAirson na bh’ ann mu thr\u00e0th.<\/p>\n
\nGu t\u00ecr dhubh dhorch a’ bh\u00e0is
\nGun chuimhneachan fh\u00e0gail ‘sa gl\u00e0sadh
\nNad chridhe ‘s nad chuimhne na \u00e0it’.<\/p>\n
\nGun sgath ‘s dheth an rathaid
\nGun chiall agus gun adhbhar –
\nThoir gach d\u00f9rachd a th’ agam.<\/p>\n
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo luaidh,
\nH\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile,
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo ghr\u00e0idh.<\/p>\n
\nAch iutharna de phian an-dr\u00e0sd’,
\nIs n\u00e8amh a chaidh seachad ann am priobadh,
\nAch cuiridh sinn fhathast clach nad ch\u00e0rn.<\/p>\n
\nGun sgath ‘s dheth an rathaid
\nGun chiall agus gun adhbhar –
\nThoir gach d\u00f9rachd a th’ agam.<\/p>\n
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo luaidh,
\nH\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile,
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo ghr\u00e0idh.<\/p>\n
\nGun sgath ‘s dheth an rathaid
\nGun chiall agus gun adhbhar –
\nThoir gach d\u00f9rachd a th’ agam.<\/p>\n
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo luaidh,
\nH\u00f2-r\u00f2, h\u00f2-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile,
\nHo-r\u00f2-\u00e8ile, mo ghr\u00e0idh.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"