Tillidh mi Dhachaigh
HEBRIDEAN HOMECOMING
2023 - 2025
'In the Wake of Metagama'
Thu, 27 Apr
|Castlebay School
This centenary concert celebrates the stories of Metagama emigrants, many of whom journeyed south to the USA, working in car factories and construction. Some returned home during the Great Depression, but many stayed to establish new lives in the New World.
Time & Location
27 Apr 2023, 19:30 – 23:00
Castlebay School, Castlebay, Isle of Barra HS9 5XD, UK
About the event
This centenary concert celebrates the stories of those emigrants, many of whom journeyed south to the USA, working in car factories and construction. Some returned home during the Great Depression, but many stayed to establish new lives in the New World.
Join award-winning writer Donald S Murray, musician Liza Mulholland, actor and singer Dolina MacLennan, Gaelic singer and piper Calum Alex Macmillan, fiddler Charlie Mackerron, singer-songwriter Willie Campbell, cellist Christine Hanson, and visual artist Doug Robertson, in marking this important centenary with an evening of music, song and story.
£10 on the door.
Photo credit: Dalmadan.