The Big Sing 2024 is a family-friendly event, open to all, presented by Barnaby Brown of the Pibroch Network. It takes place at Piping Live! on August 15, 3pm, at the National Piping Center. No previous knowledge, ability to read music, or ability to sing required. Beginners, school teachers, community music leaders, anyone who wants to share the MacCrimmon gospel welcome!
In this entertaining introduction to MacCrimmon canntaireachd, Barnaby will make piobaireachd easy to handle with a big screen, colourful syllables, memorable gestures and powerful harmonies. In 90 minutes, you will learn to chant a piobaireachd classic, known in polite society as Lament for the Union (1707).
Iain Dubh MacCrimmon called this Mallachd nam Pìobairean – The Curse of the Pipers. The music combines three medieval styles, respectively believed to elicit superhuman powers, curse enemies, and assuage grief. Like doctors and priests, professional pipers helped people cope with misfortune and difficulties, handling whatever life threw at them.
Join us enriching life in dark places where piobaireachd does not reach… through wholesome community singing! Scotland’s Big Music is a force for wellbeing, connecting us across generations and mindsets, engaging with history that everyone loves and an awesome cultural inheritance.
The workshop will use a score developed by graphic designer Kate Carpenter, whose book The Gesto Canntaireachd is available from the National Piping Centre shop here.
The Pibroch Network have free events running everyday at 10.15am in the Piping Live! Street Cafe…
Monday: https://pipinglive.co.uk/events/pibroch-network-conversations-platforming
Tuesday: https://pipinglive.co.uk/events/pibroch-network-conversations-graphic-design
Wednesday: https://pipinglive.co.uk/events/pibroch-network-conversation-standardisation
Thursday: https://pipinglive.co.uk/events/pibroch-network-conversations-singing
Friday: https://pipinglive.co.uk/events/pibroch-network-conversations-composing