Success at the Provincial Mod
Aberfeldy & District Gaelic Choir won
all its competitions at the annual Perthshire and Angus Provincial Mod
on Saturday 14 June, despite stiff competition from Cumbernauld Gaelic
Choir and Dundee Gaelic Music Association.
The haul of silverware included a new trophy presented
by the Aberfeldy choir in memory of its former Gaelic tutor, Helen T Macmillan,
who died last year. It will be known as Cuach Chlachmhor, which was the
name of Helen’s house in Aberfeldy, and is awarded to the choir
with the best overall marks in Gaelic in the senior choral competition.
The Aberfeldy choir also won the coveted Westcroft
Trophy, singing “Gleann Bhaile Chaoil”, and “Soraidh”,
and the May Mitchell & Frances Matheson Cuach for the Puirt a’Beul
(mouth music), with “Siud a bhalacha” and “An Gille
Mor Foghainteach” (Strathspey & Reel).
“It was a really great day for the Choir”
said Choir President Joan Bower. “We really owe our success not
only to the hard work put in by every choir member, but to our conductor,
Isobel Rutter; to May Brown, who does all the groundwork over the winter
months when Isobel doesn’t do the long drive up from Glasgow; and
to our amazing Gaelic tutor Seonag Barbour.”
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"Fuaimeach" (above) with the Michael Drury
Memorial Trophy for the Quartet class, won for the fourth consecutive
year: Brian Owen, May Brown, Gilliain MacDonald and Peter MacIntosh
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