Mary Jane Lamond
Joins the expedition for week 3
Mary Jane Lamond is a sharer of time honoured Gaelic songs and stories. This sharing has garnered her numerous Juno and ECMA awards and nominations, critical acclaim and a worldwide audience. Mary Jane’s four recordings create a respectful and beautiful framework for ancient Gaelic songs and her spell binding performances make these selections truly come alive.
On Cape Breton Island the rich heritage of the region’s Highland settlers was kept alive through music songs and stories. It was in Nova Scotia, visiting her grandparents throughout her youth, that Mary Jane Lamond fell in love with Scottish Gaelic traditions and song. While enrolled in Saint Francis Xavier University’s Celtic Studies programme, Lamond released her first album, Bho Thir Nan Craobh, a collection of traditional material that introduced her unique singing voice and a then unknown fiddler named Ashley MacIsaac. She has continued to dedicate her musical career to the preservation of Scottish Gaelic songs and has received recognition worldwide for her work.
