A NEW Gaelic song inspired by US President Donald Trump’s pledge to build a wall along the Mexican border has helped a 16-year-old clarsach player to Mòd success.
Milngavie’s Mairi Callan who attends the Music School of Douglas Academy, won The Glendale Quaich last Wednesday, singing two songs with self-accompaniment. One of the songs, Togaibh na Drochaidean, Leagaibh na Ballachan (Build bridges, knock down walls) may have received its first outing during the competition. It was originally a poem by Professor Donald Meek, with music and a special arrangement for Mairi by Mary Ann Kennedy.
Anna Tate Westwell from Oban High School won the Sir Philip Christison Trophy in the junior open clarsach competition for the second year in a row.
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