Psalm 98 has called my attention recently. Beyond the Hebrew Bible, it has also been a part of the standard Friday night Jewish service and, for some communities, it figures on Sabbath morning as well ...

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 ...

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The Gaelic language may be in steep decline, but a collaboration between the composer Craig Armstrong and traditional Hebridean singers hopes to keep a centuries-old style alive On the north-western ...

When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. "They really, ...

Frances Wilkins receives funding from The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and the British Academy. There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter ...