Brìgh an Òrain - A story in Every Song. The Songs and Tales of Lauchie MacLellan

Lauchie MacLellan (1910-1991) was one of this century's outstanding Scottish Gaelic singer-storytellers. A carpenter, farmer and woodsman, he entertained family and friends from his home in Broad Cove, Inverness County on Cape Breton Island with centuries-old stories and songs that had been brought to Nova Scotia by his ancestors, who emigrated from the district of Morar in the early nineteenth century . The forty-eight songs and nine folktales in the collection are transcribed from field recordings and presented as MacLellan performed them.

Between the late 1970s and early 1980s, ethnologist John Shaw recorded hundreds of MacLellan's performances as part of the Cape Breton Gaelic Folklore Project. The book is widely regarded as one of the finest studies of an individual Gaelic tradition bearer ever published and has become an indispensable resource for scholars of Scottish Gaelic language, folklore, ethnology, and music.

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