New Christine Primrose song out now - 'Mo Cheist Am Fear Ban'
Christine Primrose, who won a well deserved award for 'Gaelic Singer of the Year' at the Scots Traditional Music Awards in November 2009, is releasing the song 'Mo Cheist Am Fear Ban' (my darling is the fair one), as a digital download only single, on Monday 25th January.
You can hear the track & see the accompanying video below, and you can purchase the track direct from the Temple Records mp3 store here or from any of the major download retailers, including itunes or Amazon
Christine is a great singer, and a trailblazer, who has been singing traditional Gaelic song all her life, and who has played a pivotal role in a revival of interest in the music that has swept far beyond Scotland. With a voice that is clear, pure and dignified, she has forged a path that many singers have followed, delivering all the emotions of the songs through two very simple things; the voice and the word. She has rightly become a highly regarded and sought after tutor & artist, who has been vital in introducing the music to a wider non-Gaelic speaking audience.
The song Mo Cheist Am Fear Ban is a traditional one, and features a familiar story in Gaelic song: that of a girl who marries a wealthy man and bitterly regrets it. Having turned her back on her first true love, who she refers to as Am Fear Ban (The Fair One), the song looks back on much happier times spent with her darling when they were very much in love. She is now broken-hearted and full of remorse. This scenario appears quite regularly in song as quite often family circumstances would dictate who the daughter married.
