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The music of Skye
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Piper at Kilmuir
Piper at Kilmuir Show

Clarsach Harp Player - Scotland
Clarsach

Celtic Bagpipe Music from the otherworld, Piobaireachd, is one of this world's noblest musical traditions.

In the 17th & 18th Centuries, Highland Chieftains sent promising students to the MacCrimmons on the Isle of Skye.

The medium of tuition was Canntaireachd, a manner of chanting in imitation of the bagpipe.

Scottish Ceilidh with Skye Pipe Band
Ceilidh with the Skye Pipe Band


Walking holidays Scotland


    Discover our Celtic Heart
 
A holiday to discover this powerful landscape on foot and to savour the rich musical culture from this part of Scotland - the land of the Gaels.

Trotternish remains a very Gaelic community, or indeed a number of Gaelic communities. Gaelic is still taught as a first language in schools and spoken in many of our homes.

Far from a dying art, Gaelic music is being revived and promoted throughout the area at feis, festivals, the Mod and Skye's Gaelic College, Sabhal Mor Ostaig.

Within Trotternish we boast a truly amazing wealth of Gaelic and Scottish musicians. During your holiday with us we aim to provide an appreciation and enjoyment of the history, the artistry and the haunting sounds of many types of Gaelic music.

For musicians or those of you with fine voices, this also provides an opportunity to join in with our informal ceilidhs - bring your instrument!


 
'On top of the World!'


    FULL WEEKS HOLIDAY - from £375 per person
 

Your 'Walking and Gaelic Music' week will include a burach of:

TROTTERNISH RIDGE WALKS
- The Old Man of Storr, the Quiraing , Beinn Edra & Fairy Glen

COASTAL WALKS
- Rubha Hunish Headland, Lealt Falls, Coral Beaches, Neist Point Light House

MUSICAL EXPERIENCES
- Visit to the Piping Heritage Centre at Borreraig
- evening Ceilidhs and demonstrations with Gaelic singers and traditional songs from Skye & the Outer Hebrides; pipes, small pipes and drums; 'mouth music'; clarsach; accordian and fiddle;
- Visit to the excellent Skye Museum of Island Life;
- Visit to evening Gaelic concert at the Aros Heritage Centre

and MORE...
Traditional Ceilidh and even a shopping trip to Portree!

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    SHORT BREAK WEEKEND - from £105 per person
 

Our Discovering Skye weekends (and full week holidays) will include a sample of the 'Gaelic Music' experience Click here for more details

Skye Walking Holidays - Scotland
Duntulm Castle Hotel, Duntulm, Isle of Skye. Scotland IV51 9UF
tel. 01470 552213 email: info@skyewalks.co.uk