Prog with Gaelic (Scottish) lyrics?

[Brian]

Or even good non prog songs w same? Thanks!

[per anporth]

Runrig, though more rock than prog, have plenty of songs in Gaelic.

Here's one, covered by the great Julie Fowlis (not prog, but definitely a "banger"!):



One of the most exciting, & progressive, Gaelic contemporary artists is the Scottish small pipes player, Brìghde Chaimbeul.

This song, which closes her recent album Carry Them With Us, has her beautiful singing at the end: https://brighdechaimbeul.bandcamp.co...a-the-haunting

[Brian]

Thanks. Ordered.

[progmatist]

Clannand is a prog/new age band often featuring Irish Gaelic lyrics.

[Sturgeon's Lawyer]

How about "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict?"

[Brian]

Clannand is a prog/new age band often featuring Irish Gaelic lyrics.

I do like them but only looking for Scottish.

[Halmyre]

I'm Scottish and can't think of any Gaelic-singing bands that aren't in the folk-rock genre.

[per anporth]

I'm Scottish and can't think of any Gaelic-singing bands that aren't in the folk-rock genre.

Oi Polloi are a Scots Gaelic punk band - but I think that they probably fall outside of the OP's terms of reference!

Again - possibly falling on the thither side of what Brian might be interested in - the music of Martyn Bennett is wonderful. He started as something of a prodigy on the pipes, but then crossed over into contemporary dance music...there's Scots Gaelic samples in his music; plus, he has collaborated with his sister, who sings in the Gaelic (but, as Halmyre suggests, this latter is very much in the Scots folk tradition).

[taliesin]

Capercaillie, Breabach and Rura all feature lyrics in gaelic. And they're all great.

[wiz_d_kidd]

This is a one-off by Hidden Orchestra. One of my favorite tracks of theirs.



In all fairness, the vocals were lifted from a track by McMaster & Hay (with their permission of course). The same vocals appear on a Christmas song by Sting.

[Matty Groves]

I would recommend looking into Mary Ann Kennedy, for example the band Cliar, she was part of. M-A Kennedy also released a couple of albums under her name and produced quite a few e.g. album Greisean Greine by James Graham. She also produced and narrated 6-parts of the Highland Sessions by BBC Wales. They are an excellent starting point to get into Scottish Gaelic vocals.