A group of Gaelic psalm singers from the Borders are set to hit the big screen. A new documentary following the story of Rob MacNeacail on a musical journey starting in Carlops is set to premiere at ...

MacNeacail is the son of Gaelic poet and writer Aonghas MacNeacail who died in 2022, and who is a significant presence throughout the film. Rob’s home is filled with sketches and portraits of his ...

Leisa Gwenllian is a hard-partying young woman in rural Wales in Marc Evans' 'Effi o Blaenau,' while Jack Archer's doc 'Sailm nan Daoine' ('Psalms of the People') explores the Scottish psalm singing ...

A Gaelic psalm is a traditional form of Scottish song in which a solo voice (the precentor) leads a congregation by singing a ...

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There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter where I am. If I hear it, it just brings me back to my youth in Staffin. It brings me back to happy events … and very ...

It’s a chilly afternoon in the Borders, with icing-sugar snow sprinkled on the Pentland Hills outside the window, and I’m sitting by a log fire singing Psalm ...

Sailm nan Daoine, Glasgow Film Festival. A world premiere screening in the festival’s Official Selection strand, Sailm nan Daoine is directed ...

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).

Sailm nan Daoine, Glasgow Film Festival. A world premiere screening in the festival’s Official Selection strand, Sailm nan Daoine is directed ...