Catherine-Ann MacPhee

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S'Flinch An Oidche 01:50 Tools
A Nighean Nan Geug 03:20 Tools
Chi Mi'n Geamhradh 03:20 Tools
Canan Nan Gaidheal 04:43 Tools
O Hi Ri Lean 04:15 Tools
Chaidh Mo Dhunnchadh Dha'N Bheinn 01:59 Tools
Bidh Clann Ulaidh 03:56 Tools
Puirt-A-Beul 03:33 Tools
A Nighean nan Geug Taladh 03:50 Tools
Bothan Airigh Am Braigh Rainneach 04:27 Tools
Bu Deonach Leam Tilleadh 03:38 Tools
Na Libh O Ho I 02:28 Tools
Seathan 03:40 Tools
Chi Mi' N Geamhradh 05:01 Tools
An Ataireachd Ard 03:54 Tools
Fàilte dhruim fionn 03:33 Tools
Mile Marbhphaisg Air A' Ghaol 04:35 Tools
Mo Robairneach Gaolach 05:06 Tools
Am Buachaille Bàn 05:06 Tools
Sguaban Arbhairp 05:06 Tools
Iomair Thusa, Choinnich Chridhe 01:32 Tools
Nuair Bha Mi Og 01:32 Tools
Oran Na Maighdean Mhara 00:00 Tools
Coinneamh Nan Croitearan 01:43 Tools
S muladach mi 's mi air m'aineol 00:00 Tools
Hò Mo Luran, Hè Mo Luran 04:10 Tools
O Losa Bi'n Comhnaidh 04:27 Tools
Ho Mo Luran,He Mo Luran 04:10 Tools
S Fliuch An Oidhche 03:33 Tools
Tha Na H-Uain Air An Tulaich 04:27 Tools
Griogal Cridhe 03:11 Tools
Mal Nan Mara 02:48 Tools
Hi Ri Ri O Ra Ill O 01:57 Tools
'S fliuch an oidhche 03:34 Tools
Cearcall A' Chuain 03:18 Tools
Mile Marbhphaisg Air A'Ghaol 04:41 Tools
Mar A Tha 03:53 Tools
Faistneachd Agus Beannachd Do Na Gaidheil 03:05 Tools
Tha Na H-Uainn Air An Tulaich 04:36 Tools
Eilean A Cheo 04:36 Tools
Màl Na Mara 02:47 Tools
Gur E Mo Ghille Dubhonn 04:36 Tools
Cearcall A Chuain 03:15 Tools
Oran An 'Iolaire' 05:10 Tools
Soiridh Leis A Bhreacan Ur 03:48 Tools
Luchd Na Beurla 02:37 Tools
's Muladach Mi 's Mi Air M'Aineol 02:37 Tools
Camanach Glaschu 04:45 Tools
Cànan Nan Gàidheal 04:45 Tools
Gaol An T-Seoladair 05:09 Tools
Soraidh Le Eilean A' Cheo 05:09 Tools
Seathan bu deonach leam tilleadh 03:41 Tools
Mile Marbh-Phaig Air A' Ghaol (A Thousand Shrouds on Love) 04:41 Tools
A Ghaoil Leig Dhachaidh Leannan Mo Ghaoil 04:41 Tools
O Teannaibh Dluth Is Togaibh Fonn 03:49 Tools
Soraidh Leis An Nollaig Uir 03:49 Tools
Soiridh leis a' bhreacan ur 03:49 Tools
Mo Chridhle Trom 's Mi Seoladh 03:49 Tools
Oran Beinn Li 03:49 Tools
Puirt - Calum Beag 03:49 Tools
Hi riri o ra ill o 01:58 Tools
Mouth Music 00:00 Tools
Organ Na Maighdean Mhara 04:14 Tools
Puirt - C'n Fhidheall 00:00 Tools
Oran an `Iolaire' 05:11 Tools
Oran Sarachaidh 04:57 Tools
Chi Mi'n Geamhradh (I See Winter) 04:57 Tools
Nuar Bha Mi Óg 04:17 Tools
A Nighean Nan Geug Tàladh 03:51 Tools
Luchd Na Beuria 03:51 Tools
Eilean A Cheó 04:54 Tools
Oran An Iolaire 03:09 Tools
Camanachd Glaschu 01:23 Tools
Chi Mi'n Geamhradh / I see Winter 05:02 Tools
Oran Beinn-Li 01:52 Tools
Nuair Bha Mi Og (When I Was Young) 04:18 Tools
Soraidh Leis An Nollaig Úir 03:09 Tools
Soraidh Le Eilean A' Cheó 03:09 Tools
Nuair Bha Mi Og - When I Was Young 04:18 Tools
Chi Mi'n Geamhradh - I See Winter 05:03 Tools
Chaidh Mo Dhunnchadh Dha'n Bheinn - My Duncan Went to the Hill 02:00 Tools
Puirt-Calum Beag 03:54 Tools
Puirt a Beul (Mouth Music) 04:20 Tools
Óran Sárachaidh 02:00 Tools
Clach Agus Máiri 03:26 Tools
For Diana and Betty: Cathy-Ann reading DOA20-21 03:26 Tools
Clach Agus Màiri 03:26 Tools
Puirt a Beul: Mouth Music 03:26 Tools
Hì Ri Ri O Ra Ill Ò 03:26 Tools
Chi Mi'n Geamhradh [I See Winter] 04:18 Tools
Bidh Clann Ulaid - The Ulster Man 03:58 Tools
Nuair Bha Mi Òg 04:18 Tools
O Hi Ri Lean - A Spinning Song 04:20 Tools
Puirt-ci'n Fhidheall 03:13 Tools
A Nighean nan geug (Girl of the Branches) 04:18 Tools
Mile Marbhphaisg Ait A'Ghaol - A Thousand Curse Upon Love 04:18 Tools
Faisteachd Agus/Beannachd Do Na Gaidheil 04:20 Tools
Puirt-a-Beul: Thoir a-nall Ailean Thugam / Ginn, Donn, Sgiobalta / B' Fhèarr Mar a Bha Mi 'n Uiridh / Am Bothan a Bh' aig Fionnghuala / Saoil a Mhòr am Pòs Thu? 04:20 Tools
Soiridh Leis A' Bhreacan R 04:20 Tools
Gaol An t-Seòladair 03:18 Tools
Clah Agus Mairi 03:18 Tools
Seathan - A Waulking Song 03:13 Tools
Catherine-Ann MacPhee – Cearcall A’ Chuain 03:13 Tools
Puirt-a-Beul: Tha Bean Agam / Tha Fionnlag ag Innearadh 03:13 Tools
Tha Na H-Uain Air An Tulaich - The Lambs are on the Hill 03:13 Tools
Mar A Thà 03:54 Tools
Òran Sàrachaidh 01:53 Tools
Eilean A Cheò 04:55 Tools
Mo Chridhe Trom's Mi Seoladh 03:39 Tools
Bu Deonach leam Tilleadh - I would Willingly Return 03:40 Tools
S'Flinch An Oidche [Wet Is the Night, Waulking Song] 04:55 Tools
A Nighean Nan Geug [Girl of the Branches, Lullaby] 04:55 Tools
S'Flinch an oidche (Wet Is the Night) 04:55 Tools
A Ghaoil Leig Dhachaidh/Leannan Mo Ghaoil 01:23 Tools
Oran Beinn-Lì 01:52 Tools
Bothan Airight Am Braigh Rainneach - A Shieling in Brae Rannoch 01:52 Tools
Na Libh O Ho I -Lullaby Song 01:52 Tools
A Ghaoil Leig Dhachaidh, Leannan Mo Ghaoil 01:23 Tools
O Hi Ri Lean (A Spinning Song) 01:52 Tools
My Duncan Went to the Hill 01:52 Tools
O iosa bi'n còmhnaidh 03:39 Tools
'S Muladach Mi 'S Mi Air M'Aineol - I Am Said Here Among Strangers 03:39 Tools
O Losa Bi'n Còmhnaidh 03:39 Tools
S'Flinch An Oidche (Wet Is The Night, Waulking Song) 01:23 Tools
Gamanachd Glaschu 01:23 Tools
Seathan (A Waulking Song) 01:23 Tools
O Teannaibh Diuth Is Togaibh Fonn 01:23 Tools
O Teannaibh Dluth Is Togaibh Fonn - Draw Close and Let Us Sing a Song 01:23 Tools
Puirt-a-Beul: Mouth Music 01:23 Tools
Puirt a Beul 01:23 Tools
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Catherine-Ann was born on 21 November 1959 in the Island of Barra, Scotland. There she grew up with Scottish Gaelic as her first language. Electricity did not reach the island until she was six. At the age of five she started singing at candle-lit ceilidhs in the little village of Eoligarry. During the summer she sang for tourists. At the age of seventeen she joined "Fir Chlis" (Northern Lights). It was the first Scottish Gaelic repertory theatre company and did work for radio and television. Following budget cuts the company ended after three years. After moving to the island of Mull, she received many phone calls from John McGrath of the 7:84 theatre company. It took much persuasion to get her to join them and play English-speaking roles. She travelled with them to Leningrad, Tbilisi, Toronto, Cape Breton and Berlin. Ian Green from Greentrax Records heard her at a festival in Dingwall and offered a recording contract. Like her subsequent albums, all of the songs on "Cànan Nan Gaidheal" (The Language of the Gael) (1987) are in Gaelic, and most are traditional. One of the songs is by the Gaelic-speaking folk-rock group Runrig. Her voice is a powerful alto with exceptionally clear diction. The backing musicians include Tony Cuffe and William Jackson, both from the group Ossian. Her second album contains a bewildering range of pop and New Age influences including drum machine, harp and bass guitar. It was probably the first time that "waulking songs" (work songs for women finishing tweed cloth) were treated this way. The Mrs Ackyroyd Band is a loose association of singers who record perform comic parodies of folk music. In 1987 they undertook their only non-comic project, a song-cycle called "The Stones of Callanish". MacPhee sang two of the songs on it. The Land League was an organisation devoted to resisting the Highland Clearances in the mid to late nineteenth century. Many songs were written by Màiri Mhór (Mary MacPherson) from Skye in support of their cause. Fifty years before Woody Guthrie she wrote protest songs and set them to traditional tunes. In 1993 MacPhee played the lead in a biographical BBC TV film about Màiri Mhór. In the following year the soundtrack album was released. Some of these Gaelic songs are about the landscape of the highlands and represent a farewell to a way of life. In 1997 she recorded a live album at the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival. In 2001 MacPhee moved to Ottawa. She teaches Gaelic singing and often travels to Toronto, Seattle, North Carolina and Cape Breton. Like many other Scottish folk singers she likes country and western music but does not sing it in public. Her most recent album "Sùil Air Ais" (Looking Back) was recorded during the electricity black-out that affected USA and Canada. The sudden reduction of studio time meant that the vocals were recorded in Canada, and the instrumental accompaniments added afterwards in Scotland. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.